City: Fox Island, WA (formerly South Gate 1957-1986)
Annual Christmas Parade on Tweedy Blvd. Jane Mansfield was Grand Marshal in 1961.
City: South Gate
My father passed away on Valentines Day of 2019. About a month before, He was released from St. Francis on Christmas Eve after a month-long stay. There was a foundation passing out plush toys for Christmas to all patients, and my dad was gifted this weird emoji elf thing. I suggested he give it to my 7 year old nephew, but my dad insisted I keep it. It now lives on my bed, the last gift my father gave me, and a weird reminder of his affection for me.
City: South Gate
An image of Tweedy Mile while the historic Allen Theatre was still in operation.
City: South Gate
Mi Madre siempre se preocupaba por encontrar zapatos que nos quedaran bien. Ella las Miró y me dijo -Maria te encontré unas CHANCLAS que te van a encantar- y después de 10 años todavia las tengo .
City: South Gate
My dad’s cane still hangs in our family home in South Gate. He passed in 1992 on Day of the Dead. He moved his family to South Gate after being diagnosed with Cancer and a year later he passed.
This year it will be his 28th year of passing and that cane is still with us.
❤
City: South Gate
This was the last tire to come off the production line before the plant closed.
City: South Gate
One of the artifacts in the Museum depicting California before settler influence.
City: Downey
This was from a trip I did to Morelia, MX back in 2018. I did a Dia De Los Muertos tour and they took us to, Santa Fe de la Laguna. We toured the area and stood under a roof waiting for our bus while it rained outside. The local kids kept running around going to all the tour groups and saying, "Para La cooperación" and pointing to their jack o lanterns. This picture is when someone gave the kid a few coins and he was happy he got something! He kept staring at it and all the kids ran to him to see what he got. He then pointed to the tourist that gave him the coins and all the kids asked for some too. This is pretty vivid memory I still recall till this day.
City: Paramount
Mi abuelito, Papá Chago, falleció en 1974. Era una persona pasiva, tranquillo, paciente, y alegre. Tenia mucha responsabilidad y respeto a los demás.
Yo me acuerdo que nos cantaba la canción de la rana y siempre usando su sombrero. En la foto nos estaba cantando la canción.
Cuidaba mucho su sombrero. No le gustaba que lo brincan o subían arriba del sombrero. Cuando el iba a comer, si quitaba el sombrero porque la hora de comida es sagrada.
Papá Chago siempre vivirá en nuestro recuerdo.
City: Paramount
Mi abuelito, Papá Chago, falleció en 1974. Era una persona pasiva, tranquillo, paciente, y alegre. Tenia mucha responsabilidad y respeto a los demás.
Yo me acuerdo que nos cantaba la canción de la rana y siempre usando su sombrero. En la foto nos estaba cantando la canción.
Cuidaba mucho su sombrero. No le gustaba que lo brincan o subían arriba del sombrero. Cuando el iba a comer, si quitaba el sombrero porque la hora de comida es sagrada.
Papá Chago siempre vivirá en nuestro recuerdo.
City: Paramount
Mi abuelito, Papá Chago, falleció en 1974. Era una persona pasiva, tranquillo, paciente, y alegre. Tenia mucha responsabilidad y respeto a los demás.
Yo me acuerdo que nos cantaba la canción de la rana y siempre usando su sombrero. En la foto nos estaba cantando la canción.
Cuidaba mucho su sombrero. No le gustaba que lo brincan o subían arriba del sombrero. Cuando el iba a comer, si quitaba el sombrero porque la hora de comida es sagrada.
Papá Chago siempre vivirá en nuestro recuerdo.
City: South Gate
Leonard Brown is the president of the board of the Friends of the South Gate Museum Association and a lifelong South Gate resident. He fondly remembers his childhood growing up in South Gate and exploring the LA River with friends.
City: South Gate
My dad’s cane still hangs in our family home in South Gate. He passed in 1992 on Day of the Dead. He moved his family to South Gate after being diagnosed with Cancer and a year later he passed.
This year it will be his 28th year of passing and that cane is still with us.
❤
City: South Gate
Mi Madre pudo en su ultimo año de Vida cumplir unos de sus hanelos y handar en tren fue uno de ellos. Aqui con mi nieta atravesando California en el Amtrak.
City: South Gate
Luzelva Guzmán Reyes, migrated from Jalisco, Mx to SELA. She moved to her home in South Gate in 1991, with her husband Moises Reyes who unfortunately passed a year later. After Señora Lucy’s immense loss she dedicated her life to care for her home and three young daughters. She was a creative and passionate florist. She not only made artificial arrangements to sell to help her family she also designed and made her own clothes to save money. Years later the city of SG recognized her home as one of the most clean and beautiful homes in the community. A beautiful garden, palms, trees photographed of this home also won an award for photography at SGHS when her oldest daughter entered the photograph in a contest.
Her home was her pride and joy and best gift she left for her daughters — as Doña Lucy joined her husband in a mansion full of flowers in heaven.
City: South Gate
Hello I would like to submit this picture of my father and his sister/best friend they were inseparable and they loved each other do much that fate would have it that they both passed away 2019 just 20 days apart. The bond they had was the strongest I have ever seen.
City: South Gate
This is one of the many beautiful memories my Daddy left me with. His heart and soul was one of the purest. His compassion and love was unconditional. I miss you every day, but I feel you resignate within the depths of my soul. Te quiero con toda mi alma y con todo mi corazon .
City: Lynwood
My Father and I. - Artwork commissioned by Erick Pepper Rivera.
City: South Gate
Our beloved Alex passed in November of 2018. We love him and miss him dearly.
City: South Gate
This picture is of my maternal grandparents on their 55th wedding anniversary in El Salvador. The date is August 5, 1993 and my family planned a surprise wedding renewal for them.
Although both of my grandparents have now passed away, their love and memory lives on through all of us. Every time I see pictures of them, I am reminded of all of their hard work, the many sacrifices they endured to raise 8 children, and the unconditional love they always showed us and each other.
I am forever blessed for the time I had with them and miss them every single day!
City: Oceanside
I have a lot of great memories of three years spending there had a lot of great teachers like mrs. Raywall which is now mrs. Miller mr. Dobson mr. Peterson I love the sewing class homemaking Business Machines I remember struggling up three flights of stairs with my books and crutches but I met a lot of great friends there and I still keep in touch with some of them.
City: Long Beach
This painting of my late father and I as a newborn incorporates collage, sourced from various family photos. Due to his passing, I have struggled with the uncertainty of his acceptance over my queer identity and gender expression. By weaving childhood memories of my mother and siblings, their images symbolize the support I desperately seek from my father. In spite of this, these photos also represent the mourning I have not only of his death but the life my family and I experienced with him. "Victoria & Daddy" serves as a place for nostalgia, acceptance, and commemoration.