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When he got up to get out, he scanned the seats.
"Are you missing anything," I asked?
"My sigarettes," he replied. "But I may have left them on the station."
"You got to go back then," I said.
"Sure," he replied.
A part of the Lawndale/Hawthorne area was known as Little Watts. The reason for this remains obscure.
I often get beat up on mixing art and politics (even here on flickr) which is fine with me. There is a place and time where art can have a powerful effect on making things known.
Chicano Art Magazine was kind enough to use one of my images for a small write up about life along the New Mexico border.
chicanoartmagazine.blogs.com/cam_blog/
Please take time to look up the magazine. Its way cool and highlights artist in and around L.A.
As for my thoughts on a border fence...its stupid. Another "no bid" contract for this administrations cronies. The immigration issue is about employers who hire undocumented workers and can only be solved with business standing up and following the laws they break.
What you don't hear about is the corruption at the border as well. This corruption is on both sides.
There are no easy answers.
If you would like to see more large format from the border, please see...
Some of the artwork on the pylons of the Coronado Bay Bridge in Chicano Park in San Diego, California
17 años como Bombero en CPBMALAGA. Disfrutón por naturaleza, es una persona familiar y cercana, con gran corazón, alegre, honesta, siempre con una sonrisa en la cara. Lo mismo te lo puedes encontrar haciendo unas asanas q con un patÃn, en MTB, una tabla o en la roca. Desde muy joven ya le pegaba a la escalada su gran pasión que combina con el kite disfrutando como un enano tanto dÃas flojos como dÃas fuertes.
Cabo de CPBMALAGA en el parque de Bomberos de CoÃn
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17 years as a Firefighter in CPBMALAGA. Enjoyable by nature, he is a familiar and close person, with a big heart, cheerful, honest, always with a smile on his face. You can find the same thing doing some asanas with a skateboard, on MTB, a board or on the rock. From a very young age, his great passion was already attached to climbing, which he combines with kite, enjoying both lazy days and strong days like a dwarf.
Cape of CPBMALAGA in the CoÃn Fire Station
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Yes, this is a mural painted on the one of the cement pillars of the Coronado Bridge. The murals are the main focus of this historic site in San Diego.
Around 1970 the, Coronado Bridge linking downtown San Diego with the peninsular/island of Coronado, was reaching the building stage. It was to go over the community of Barrio Logan where Mexican immigrants had lived since the early 1900's. Controversy was brewing as the members of the community felt they were being deemed as unimportant during the building of modern day San Diego.
I had just moved to San Diego and joined in the cause. The city leaders attempted to fool the community by saying that they could keep their park, but then bulldozers appeared one morning and word went out that the area was going to be used to house a Highway Patrol office.
Protest mounted and the area was occupied and demonstrations were frequent. I remember being part of several. Soon the city officials gave way and the area was indeed set aside as the promised park and Chicano artists offered to paint murals on the pillars.
Now, 40 years later, the area is home to the largest number of outdoor murals in the United States. Many of the murals interestingly enough are of communist leaders such as Fidel, Che and Ho. My thoughts all of these years later is that this area is what makes the sprawling area of San Diego of steel, glass and cement a city. The murals are stunning and each a lovely work of art.
52 Weeks of 2018
Week No. 34
Theme: Photobombing!
Category: Technique (of sorts)
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The Chicano Legacy 40 Años mosaic mural covers the east wall of Peterson Hall on the UCSD campus. It is made up of thousands of pieces of colored glass. The art project was envisioned by students of UC San Diego’s Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA). The mosaic was brought to life by San Diego-based artist Mario Torero.
In San Diego photographing with Leica SL and Noctilux f/0.95. Mural at Chicano Park with playground and Coronado Bridge in background.
The Chicano Park car show held in Barrio Logan, adjacent to downtown San Diego is an event that Kathy and I look forward to attending each year. The San Diego area was crowded in part because the Padres and the Dodgers were playing all weekend. We took the Amtrak Surfliner train into town and rode the San Diego Trolley train from downtown to Barrio Logan and avoided all of the traffic congestion.
The neighborhood of Barrio Logan is a historically Latino area of San Diego County and the park itself has a very interesting history. Located below the 5 freeway and the approaches to the Coronado Bay Bridge, it is home to many murals painted on the concrete highway supports.
I saw this beautiful 1948(?) Chevrolet Fleetline at the show. There seemed to be fewer cars in attendance this year. Kathy and I assumed it was because of the threat of rain. This car had some cool mini-murals on the front and back bumper areas. Not sure if the wood on the sides are original to the car or not.