Group interview with Jesse Castro, David Ayon, Ricky Gutierrez, and Apolonio Morales by Troy A (full)
Punk
South El Monte
Youth culture
Racism
Violence
Community
Cholos
Youth culture
Current events
This is an interview with El Monte area punk musicians discussing their experiences in the punk scene growing up to now.
A, Troy ( -)
Ayon, David ( -)
Castro, Jesse ( -)
Gutierrez, Ricky ( -)
Morales, Apolonio (1977-)
Oral history, MP3: East of East - Mapping Community Narratives in South El Monte and El Monte
Digital publisher: Claremont Graduate University
2014-01-25
Stephanie Griswold
SEMAP holds all rights, title, and interest, including literary rights and copyright, to the oral histories collected and made available on this site by SEMAP oral historians. Oral history narrators retain the non-exclusive right to copy, use, and publish their oral histories during their lifetimes. South El Monte Arts Posse (SEMAP) provides access to the materials for the purposes of research and education (http://semapeastofeast.com/). See our note about using and citing oral histories on the homepage.
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GroupInterview.Punks.SEM_compressed.mp3
This 15-minute clip is an interview between Gloria Arellanes and Carly Curiel. The clip is pulled from a 50-minute interview with Gloria Arellanes, Carribean Fragoza, and Romeo Guzmán by Carly Curiel and Diane Velez.
Gloria Arellanes
Activism
The Chicano Movement
Tongva
Brown Berets
Free clinic
This excerpt is from a 50-minute group interview with SEMAP members Gloria Arellanes, Carribean Fragoza, and Romeo Guzmán by Active SGV's Carly Curiel and Diane Velez. In this clip, Gloria Arellanes discusses her community activism experience from high school to her work with the Brown Berets and the free clinic.
ActiveSGV's ActiveLab podcast, Carly Curiel and Diane Velez
Interview recording .mp3, 14:50 minutes: Gloria Arellanes
ActiveSGV ActiveLab podcast
2020.07
Lee Painter-Kim
In copyright
Guzmán, Romeo; Fragoza, Carribean; Cummings, Alex Sayf; and Reft, Ryan, eds. East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte. New Brunswick, Camden; Newark, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 102-109.
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English
Sound
Episode 04 - #ReadSGV_clip of Gloria Arellanes.mp3
C.A.S.A. Zamora Logo
Logo
Aimee Guzmán
Image of Ernie Salas, Andy Salas, Tim Miguel, David Holgut, Gregario Gonzales, Ed Barajas, James Odlin, and Nick Juravich.
Kizh-Gabrielino band of Mission Indians
This is a photograph of the Kizh-Gabrielino band of Mission Indians Ernie Salas, Andy Salas, Tim Miguel, David Holgut (sp?), Gregario Gonzales, Ed Barajas, and James Odlin with SEMAP member Nick Juravich.
Alejandro Rosas (aka DJ Horchata)
Photograph, 1 JPEG image: Tongva/Gabrielino
Digital publisher: Claremont Graduate University
2015.01.10
Lee Painter-Kim
SEMAP holds all rights, title, and interest, including literary rights and copyright, to the oral histories collected and made available on this site by SEMAP oral historians. Oral history narrators retain the non-exclusive right to copy, use, and publish their oral histories during their lifetimes. South El Monte Arts Posse (SEMAP) provides access to the materials for the purposes of research and education (http://semapeastofeast.com/). See our note about using and citing oral histories on the homepage.
Guzmán, Romeo; Fragoza, Carribean; Cummings, Alex Sayf; and Reft, Ryan, eds. East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte. New Brunswick, Camden; Newark, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
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Photograph of Ernie Salas, Andy Salas, Tim Miguel, David Holgut, Gregario Gonzales, Ed Barajas, James Odlin, and Nick Juravich.jpeg
Image of Ernie Salas and Andy Salas.
Kizh-Gabrielino band of Mission Indians
This is a photograph of the Kizh-Gabrielino band of Mission Indians Ernie Salas and Andy Salas.
Alejandro Rosas (aka DJ Horchata)
Photograph, 1 JPEG image: Tongva/Gabrielino
Digital publisher: Claremont Graduate University
2015.01.10
Lee Painter-Kim
SEMAP holds all rights, title, and interest, including literary rights and copyright, to the oral histories collected and made available on this site by SEMAP oral historians. Oral history narrators retain the non-exclusive right to copy, use, and publish their oral histories during their lifetimes. South El Monte Arts Posse (SEMAP) provides access to the materials for the purposes of research and education (http://semapeastofeast.com/). See our note about using and citing oral histories on the homepage.
Guzmán, Romeo; Fragoza, Carribean; Cummings, Alex Sayf; and Reft, Ryan, eds. East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte. New Brunswick, Camden; Newark, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
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Photograph of Ernie Salas and Andy Salas.jpeg
Starlite Swap Meet model
Models
Student projects
Starlite Swap Meet
Model of the Starlite Swap Meet by students of Mountain View High School.
Alfred Mendoza (photographer)
2023
In copyright
JPG
Image
Flores Magón (block print)
Ricardo Flores Magón
Enrique Magón
Anarchist
El Monte
Art made by Alvaro Marquez for SEMAP and La Casa del Hijo del Ahuizote
Alvaro Márquez
LaCasa and SEMAP
2013
Eric Ignacio Thomas
SEMAP holds all rights, title, and interest, including literary rights and copyright, to the oral histories collected and made available on this site by SEMAP oral historians. Oral history narrators retain the non-exclusive right to copy, use, and publish their oral histories during their lifetimes. South El Monte Arts Posse (SEMAP) provides access to the materials for the purposes of research and education (http://semapeastofeast.com/). See our note about using and citing oral histories on the homepage.
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Group Interview with Jesse Castro, David Ayon, Ricky Gutierrez, and Apolonio Morales by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis (clip)
Punk
South El Monte
Youth culture
Racism
Violence
Skinheads
Sharps
This is a curated clip from an interview with El Monte area punk musicians discussing their experiences in the punk scene growing up to now.
Andreas Araiza Kokinis, Troy ( -)
Ayon, David ( -)
Castro, Jesse ( -)
Gutierrez, Ricky ( -)
Morales, Apolonio (1977-)
Oral history, MP3: East of East - Mapping Community Narratives in South El Monte and El Monte
Digital publisher: Claremont Graduate University
2014-01-25
Stephanie Griswold
SEMAP holds all rights, title, and interest, including literary rights and copyright, to the oral histories collected and made available on this site by SEMAP oral historians. Oral history narrators retain the non-exclusive right to copy, use, and publish their oral histories during their lifetimes. South El Monte Arts Posse (SEMAP) provides access to the materials for the purposes of research and education (http://semapeastofeast.com/). See our note about using and citing oral histories on the homepage.
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TRIMMED_Groupinterview.Punks.SEM_COMPRESSED.mp3
South El Monte (Calif.) civic center build site
South El Monte (Calif.)
Civic Center
City Hall
Photo from 1981 South El Monte newsletter, presumably taken years before by Armando's Photography, of what looks like a demolition site where the new civic center would be built
Armando's Photography hired by the City of South El Monte
Photograph, 1 scanned page: East of East - Mapping Community Narratives in South El Monte and El Monte
Digital publisher: Claremont Graduate University
1981
KRR
A wide variety of materials, including this one, were obtained from many different sources, created and provided by many different individuals and institutions in the South El Monte and El Monte communities (as well as the wider San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles area). SEMAP may or may not hold copyright for these items. SEMAP does its best to secure permission for reproduction before placing items online. If you claim the rights to any of the materials on this website and believe they are inappropriately accessible online, please contact SEMAP at semartsposse@gmail.com. South El Monte Arts Posse (SEMAP) provides access to the materials on this website for the purposes of research and education. To reproduce/use/share these items online or in print, please request permission at semartsposse@gmail.com
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Legion Stadium Dances
Art Laboe with Jerry Lee Lewis at a public dance at Legion Stadium in the 1950s
"You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain." Art Laboe with Jerry Lee Lewis...with those screaming teens.
Art Laboe
KCET
Memoires of El Monte: Art Laboe's Charmed Life on Air
Michael Moran
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