It is Saturday night, and El Monte’s atmosphere is buzzing with a youthful glow. As the parking lot and the surrounding streets began to fill with vehicles from the American golden age of automotive design with names like Galaxie and Mercury, the space became saturated with cosmic energy.
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Our first book tells the story of America’s multiethnic suburbia, and reimagines public history through the vivid lives of anarchists, farmworkers, punks, writers and more in the San Gabriel Valley.
We’re excited to announce that Romeo Guzman is now an associate editor at Tropics of Meta, and will […]
In recent years, the enduring legacies of the original people of the Los Angeles basin, referred to as […]
In memory of Olga Gutiérrez, 1937-2016 The professor started talking about segregation in the South, of blacks, of […]
“People want to get outdoors … and the small farms home gives them that opportunity,” Ross H. Gast […]
“Law And Order Monte Boys Style” is the title of a chapter in one of the more recent […]
In May 1933, Hicks camp was nearing full capacity. More than 1,500 migrant workers were settling down to […]