Is Leimert Park L.A.’s Most Significant Neighborhood? Trudi Sandmeier 00:00 Today on Save As: Kira Williams 00:02 I would find a picture of somewhere or an article about something, and the next time I drove past that place, I was…
Month: May 2022
Is Leimert Park L.A.’s Most Significant Neighborhood?
Is Leimert Park the most significant neighborhood in Los Angeles? Katie Horak thinks it might be. “I don’t think there’s any neighborhood in the city that tells so many different important stories about our history as a city, and that really has the integrity to still tell that story,” she says in this episode of Save As. A USC alum, principal at Architectural Resources Group, and adjunct professor, Katie took her students out of the classroom and into the neighborhood to document Leimert Park’s remarkable architectural and cultural heritage.
We also talk with three of Katie’s students—Zongqi Li, Emily Varley, and Kira Williams—about what they found on their adventure. They unraveled a mystery about how Leimert Park developed, saw how persistent racism affected African American and Japanese American residents, and traced the evolution of schools and churches. You’ll hear why Katie considers Leimert Park so important—and you might even agree.
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Boots on the Ground: Archaeology and Community at Manzanar Cindy Olnick 0:00 Today on Save As… Tia Morita 0:01 It’s just a way to, you know, remember my family’s history, to respect this place, pay homage to what happened here,…
Boots on the Ground: Archaeology and Community at Manzanar
Last month, about ninety volunteers spent a weekend excavating the former hospital site at Manzanar, a World War II incarceration camp about 225 miles north of Los Angeles. Some of those volunteers were students in Mary Ringhoff’s Cultural Resource Management class. One of those students was Save As producer Willa Seidenberg, who interviewed people on site about why they travel from near and far to care for this site of tragic memory. In this episode, we dig into the study of archaeology with Mary, hear Willa’s great reporting, and talk with student Dani Velazco about what she got out of the experience (besides getting very, very dirty).