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Mariscal, Angelita (audio interview #1 of 1)

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