Mariscal, Angelita (audio interview #1 of 1)

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Rancho Los Alamitos - Hotchkis Collection

Mariscal, Angelita (audio interview #1 of 1)

Mariscal, Angelita (b. 1917 - ); Hotchkis, Joan, interviewer

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/224419

Date: 2022-10-21

Abstract:

INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - Joan Hotchkis, who conducted this interview, grew up in San Marino and her maternal grandparents lived nearby at Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach. When she was growing up, she visited there often with her parents and siblings. In 1979, she decided to interview some of the people shoe remembered living and working at the ranch when she visited. She was studying her own family history and planning to write about it. Eventually this led her to write and perform a one woman show that she presented across the United States and in Europe. TOPICS - Topics on this side of tape include, parents; move to Mexico and back to California, father's work on Rancho Los Alamitos, going to school and life at the ranch;Topics on this side of tape include, going to school in Long Beach, religion, responsibilities while growing up, meeting future husband at church and elopingTopics on this side of tape include, life on Rancho Los Alamitos, marriage and children and birth controlTopics on this side of tape include, recreation, working at Rancho Los Alamitos, husband's illness and death, Fred Bixby's funeral, and 1933 Long Beach earthquake;Topics on this side of tape include, 1933 Long Beach earthquake, husband leading ranch tours for children, working as nurses' aide and sewing and cooking at home; 5/15/1979

Description:

SUBJECT BIO - Angelita Reyes Sisneros Mariscal lived at Rancho Los Alamitos from June, 1934 until the summer of 1963. She moved to the ranch when she married Joe Sisneros, who worked there, and they became the parents of four children. Both of her parents emigrated to the US from the same small town, Santa Maria de Los Angeles, in Mexico, and they were living in Los Nietos, California when Mariscal was born in 1917. Angie talks about her life at the ranch, her husband's work and the work that she and her children sometime did to help out. She also describes the relationship between the Bixbys, who owned the ranch, and their employees, and how that changed over time as the Bixby got older and the city grew up around the ranch. In addition, she describes her background, her husband's and her life and that of her children after she left the ranch and her husband died. Joan Hotchkis interviewed Angie in her home in the town of Los Alamitos, near Rancho Los Alamitos, which is located in Long Beach. It's the house that Angie says in her interview that her husband was building when he became too sick to continue. Hotchkis found the house neat and clean; she wrote that it seemed to be a loved house. She conducted this interview as part of a project to collect stories about Rancho Los Alamitos. INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - Joan Hotchkis, who conducted this interview, grew up in San Marino and her maternal grandparents lived nearby at Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach. When she was growing up, she visited there often with her parents and siblings. In 1979, she decided to interview some of the people shoe remembered living and working at the ranch when she visited. She was studying her own family history and planning to write about it. Eventually this led her to write and perform a one woman show that she presented across the United States and in Europe. TOPICS - Topics on this side of tape include, parents; move to Mexico and back to California, father's work on Rancho Los Alamitos, going to school and life at the ranch;Topics on this side of tape include, going to school in Long Beach, religion, responsibilities while growing up, meeting future husband at church and elopingTopics on this side of tape include, life on Rancho Los Alamitos, marriage and children and birth controlTopics on this side of tape include, recreation, working at Rancho Los Alamitos, husband's illness and death, Fred Bixby's funeral, and 1933 Long Beach earthquake;Topics on this side of tape include, 1933 Long Beach earthquake, husband leading ranch tours for children, working as nurses' aide and sewing and cooking at home;

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