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Hernandez, Miguel (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 the tape include, family background, father coming to work at Rancho Los Alamitos, emigrating to California with his mother and siblings, father's death and move with uncle to Artesia;Topics on this tape include, education in Mexico, move to Artesia, working for flower armer in La Mirada, and coming to work at Rancho Los Alamitos as a gardenerTopics on this side of tape include, working at Rancho Los Alamitos, retirement and working part-time while living in Los Angeles; 6/19/1979