RUBEN MARTINEZ: A CENTURY AGO, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEXICANS FLED THE CHAOS OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, MOST OF THEM ARRIVING IN LOS ANGELES, GRAVITATING TO THE OLD PUEBLO AREA AROUND OLVERA STREET.

RAQUEL GUTIERREZ: THEY RECREATED A SENSE OF HOME AND HISTORY IN THE THEATERS OF THE NEARBY BROADWAY CORRIDOR, WHERE SPANISH-LANGUAGE VARIETY SHOWS CALLED VARIEDADES ENTERTAINED THEM WITH SONG-AND-DANCE ROUTINES, OPERETTAS, COMIC ACTS, AND TALKIES.

MARTINEZ: ONE SUCCESSFUL MUSICAL ACT WAS A HUSBAND-AND-WIFE DUO CALLED MARTINEZ DEL RIO.

JUAN MARTINEZ AND MARGARITA DEL RIO SANG THE HITS OF THE DAY.

GUTIERREZ: NEARLY A CENTURY LATER, THERE'S UPHEAVAL AGAIN IN LATINO LOS ANGELES, THE THREAT OF I.C.E.

DEPORTATIONS LOOMING OVER THE COMMUNITY, AND AGAIN THERE'S A NEED TO REBUILD A SENSE OF HOME, OF BELONGING.

MARTINEZ: TONIGHT WE TELL THE STORY OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THOSE WHO KEEP GETTING KICKED OUT OF IT, AND WHO BETTER TO TELL THE STORY THAN ME--RUBEN MARTINEZ, THE GRANDSON OF JUAN MARTINEZ AND MARGARITA DEL RIO... GUTIERREZ: AND ME--HIS PARTNER IN PERFORMANCE RAQUEL GUTIERREZ, A DAUGHTER OF LATINO IMMIGRANT L.A.

MARTINEZ: AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO TELL IT THAN THROUGH A MODERN FAMILY VERSION OF A VARIEDADES WITH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY, MULTIETHNIC CAST BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE IN THE OLD PUEBLO.

[APPLAUSE] DAMAS Y CABALLEROS, WELCOME TO EL CENTRO DE LOS ANGELES--LA CALLE OLVERA.

GUTIERREZ: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN, RUBEN, THE HEART OF THE CITY.

MARTINEZ: IT'S WHERE I BEGAN, TOO.

I WAS BAPTIZED ACROSS THE STREET--LA PLACITA.

GUTIERREZ: ME, TOO.

BOTH: MY DAD'S MEXICAN.

MY MOM'S FROM EL SALVADOR.

NO WAY.

JINX.

MARTINEZ: THERE'S ME--RUBEN MARTINEZ, GRANDSON OF SINGERS FROM MEXICO WHO PLAYED THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT IN DOWNTOWN L.A., PROFESSOR, POLITICAL PUNDIT, TOO OLD TO BE BUSKING, BUT ROCK-AND-ROLL DREAMS DIE HARD.

GUTIERREZ: MY PARENTS WERE ALL ABOUT THE NUMBER TWO PLATE AT LA LUZ DEL DIA, AND THERE'S ME-- RAQUEL GUTIERREZ, DAUGHTER OF WORKING-CLASS IMMIGRANTS, SOUTHEAST LOS ANGELES NERDY HOMEGIRL, CATHOLIC SCHOOL SURVIVOR WHO MADE THE ESCAPE THROUGH PUNK, PROTESTS, AND PERFORMANCE ART.

I THROW DOWN FIERCE KARAOKE RENDITIONS IF YOU'RE LUCKY.

MARTINEZ: MY PARENTS WOULD GET TAQUITOS AT CIELITO LINDO AFTER CHA-CHA DANCING AT THE PALLADIUM.

GUTIERREZ: AW, QUE ROMANTICO.

MARTINEZ: I FEEL A BOLERO COMING ON.

[APPLAUSE] MARTINEZ: YEAH.

MUCHAS GRACIAS BUT A BUNCH OF CHEAPSKATES.

THERE'S NO MONEY IN THE HAT.

GUTIERREZ: YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT REALLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY, RUBEN.

MARTINEZ: NO.

THE REASON WE KEEP COMING BACK HERE IS BECAUSE THIS IS OUR DOWNTOWN.

OLVERA STREET'S OUR CENTRO.

GUTIERREZ: YEAH, LIKE THE EXISTENTIAL CULTURAL AXIS WITHOUT WHICH WE WOULD BE ADRIFT IN A MIASMA OF SIGNS WITHOUT MEANING, VICTIMS OF A CHICANA DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER.

MARTINEZ: CENTERLESS.

[PLAYING MINOR CHORD] WAIT.

NO.

NO, NO, NO.

WE'RE OK.

WE'RE OK... GUTIERREZ: OK.

MARTINEZ: BECAUSE WE'VE GOT OLVERA STREET.

OLVERA STREET'S REAL.

GUTIERREZ: YEAH.

YOU KNOW, THESE ADOBES DATE BACK TO 1818, MAKING THEM SOME OF THE OLDEST BUILDINGS IN LOS ANGELES.

MARTINEZ: SURE.

THIS IS WHERE THE POBLADORES ARRIVED IN 1781 AND FOUNDED THEIR VILLAGE.

GUTIERREZ: WELL, IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT IN A CITY KNOWN FOR CREATING ILLUSIONS, THERE'S STILL SOME REAL HISTORY, SOMETHING WE CAN HOLD ON TO, SOMETHING TO GROUND US.

STERLING: FINE CITIZENS OF 21st-CENTURY LOS ANGELES, I AM CHRISTINE STERLING... THE MOTHER OF OLVERA STREET.

GUTIERREZ: IN THE LATE 1920s, CHRISTINE STERLING GOES ON A CRUSADE TO RESCUE THE MEXICAN PAST, ENLISTING THE SUPPORT OF DOWNTOWN ELITES.

SHE TAKES A DECAYING OLVERA STREET AND RENOVATES AND REIMAGINES IT.

MARTINEZ: MY GRANDPARENTS ARE HIRED TO WORK AT LA GOLONDRINA, THE FIRST MAJOR NEW RESTAURANT ON STERLING'S OLVERA STREET, PLAYING THE SONGS OF OLD MEXICO FOR THE GRINGO TOURISTS.

STERLING: THIS SQUALID, LITTLE CALLE WAS ABOUT TO BE TORN DOWN, BUT 87 YEARS AGO, I CONVINCED HARRY CHANDLER OF THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES" THAT THE CITY OF THE FUTURE NEEDS A PAST, AND THE MEXICAN PAST IS SUCH A COLORFUL AND ROMANTIC ONE, I'VE PRESERVED IT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME AS A SORT OF ETHNIC THEME PARK.

WELCOME TO MY LITTLE MEXICO.

[MARACAS PLAYING] AH, THANK YOU.

MARTINEZ: THIS IS OUR CENTRO?

I MIGHT AS WELL BE SPEEDY GONZALES OR THE FRITO BANDITO.

I'M A WALKING STEREOTYPE.

GUTIERREZ: IT'S A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT, RUBEN.

MARTINEZ: WHAT'S COMPLICATED?

YOU WANT TO RIDE ON THE BURRO?

GUTIERREZ: NO MATTER WHAT CHRISTINE STERLING DID OR THOUGHT SHE WAS DOING, THE HISTORY OF OLVERA STREET STILL RESONATES.

SURE, SHE MAY HAVE DOLLED IT UP IN MEXICAN DRAG FOR THE TOURISTS, BUT UNDERNEATH IT ALL, IT'S CORAZON STILL BEATS.

MARTINEZ: UH, RIGHT.

A GRINGA CAN DRESS IT UP IN CULTURAL CLICHES, BUT SHE CAN'T TAKE AWAY ITS MEXICAN ROOTS.

GUTIERREZ: NOT JUST MEXICANS, RUBEN.

OLVERA STREET WAS A CENTER FOR CHINESE AMERICANS IN L.A., TOO.

MARTINEZ: WELL, SURE.

AFTER THE MEXICANS GOT BOOTED OUT AND THEIR ADOBES FLIPPED, THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL CHINATOWN UNTIL THE CHINESE GOT KICKED OUT TO MAKE ROOM FOR UNION STATION.

THERE WAS JAPANESE FAMILIES RIGHT HERE ON THE PLAZA, TOO, UNTIL THEY WERE ROUNDED UP AND SENT OFF TO INTERNMENT CAMPS.

THERE WAS A LITTLE ITALY RIGHT HERE UNTIL THE ITALIANS GOT SENT BACK IN THE 1950s.

YOU SEE, IT'S LIKE THIS ETHNIC SHELL GAME MANIPULATED BY THE UNSEEN HAND-- THE BOOSTERS, THE MASONS, THE ROBBER BARONS, THE IMPERIALISTA GRINGO DOHENYS, GETTYS, THE TRUMPS.

GUTIERREZ: WAIT, YOU KNOW.

CALMA.

TRANQUILO.

IT'S NOT THE ANARCHIST AGITATOR PART OF THE SHOW YET.

THAT COMES LATER.

YOU'LL GET YOUR CHANCE.

THE POINT IS, OLVERA STREET IS MORE THAN JUST AN ETHNIC THEME PARK.

IT'S LIKE THERE'S THESE LAYERS OF HISTORY, LIKE THERE'S THESE AURAS.

MARTINEZ: YOU MEANS GHOSTS.

GUTIERREZ: I PREFER TO CALL THEM AURAS OF PEOPLE THAT CAME BEFORE LEAVING INDELIBLE TRACES, WEAVING THIS MULTIETHNIC TAPESTRY OF HUMAN INTERCONNECTEDNESS.

DE NEVE: MULTIETHNIC, MY SPANISH ASS!

DOES LA IGLESIA DE NUESTRA SENORA LE REINA DE PORCIUNCULA SOUND CHINESE TO YOU?

MARTINEZ: FELIPE DE NEVE-- COMANDANTE GENERAL DE LAS PROVINCIAS INTERNAS, FOUNDER OF THE SPANISH PUEBLO IN 1781.

HE FOUGHT SEVERAL CAMPAIGNS AGAINST REBELLIOUS NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES.

DE NEVE: LET ME TELL YOU THE TRUE STORY OF THE BIRTH OF OUR GLORIOUS SPANISH PUEBLO.

GUTIERREZ: AY, CHICANA STUDIES NIGHTMARE--THE SPANISH ROOTS OF LOS ANGELES.

OY VEY.

MARTINEZ: BETTER NOT LET RUDY ACUNA HEAR YOU.

DE NEVE: [SCOFFS] I, FELIPE DE NEVE, AM NOT AFRAID OF DR.

ACUNA.

WE SPANISH-- WELL, WE SPANISH BROUGHT YOU BLACK RICE WITH PAELLA.

WE BROUGHT YOU SPICY TOMATO AIOLI, EGGPLANT.

VALE, VALE.

I WILL SHOW YOU POOR, LOST, POST-COLONIAL SOULS YOUR TRUE ROOTS, YOUR AUTHENTIC CENTRO.

BURIED RIGHT HERE ARE THE BONES OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS, THE BRAVE MEN WHO TREKKED NORTH WITH ME, FELIPE DE NEVE, AND FOUNDED OUR GREAT CITY.

YES.

WE ARE STRONG.

WE ARE TOUGH.

WE ARE GRITTY.

WE'RE THE WHITE MEN WHO FOUNDED THIS CITY.

GUTIERREZ: NOT ALL MEN.

MARTINEZ: NOT ALL WHITE.

DE NEVE: WELL, MOSTLY WHITE MEN.

MARTINEZ: NOT EVEN MOSTLY, DUDE.

DE NEVE: SOME WHITE.

A FEW WHITE.

ONE OR TWO WHITE.

GUTIERREZ: UH, MOSTLY MESTIZO... MARTINEZ: AND INDIO... GUTIERREZ: AND MULATTO.

DE NEVE: OK.

TOYPURINA: OK.

OK.

I HATE TO BE THE ONE TO BREAK UP THIS DIVERSITY LOVEFEST, BUT WE CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOUR ISABELLA AND FERDINAND THE BULLSHIT VAUDEVILLE.

MY PEOPLE, THE TONGVA... GUTIERREZ: TOYPURINA.

AFTER THE FOUNDING OF THE PUEBLO, SHE BECOMES A RESISTANCE LEADER OF THE TONGVA PEOPLE, FIGHTING TO PRESERVE THEIR CUSTOMS AND PROTECT THEIR LANDS AGAINST THE TRESPASSING SPANISH MISSIONARIES.

TOYPURINA: HAD A VILLAGE HERE WAY BEFORE ANY OF Y'ALL, SO YOU CAN JUST TURN AROUND AND GO RIGHT ON BACK TO SEVILLA.

WE DON'T NEED YOUR GENTEFICATION HERE.

YOU!

YOU PRICED US TONGVA OUT OF OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD AND PAID US WITH SMALLPOX AND MEASLES.

THANK YOU, COLONIZER STEAMPUNK SKINNY JEAN CACHUPIN.

DE NEVE: TOYPURINA, I SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED YOU'D SHOW UP AND MUG FOR THE CAMERAS.

INSTEAD OF STIRRING UP THE LOCALS TO REBELLION, YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRATEFUL, YOU INDIA SALVAJE.

TOYPURINA: IT WASN'T A REBELLION.

IT WAS A HOMELAND SECURITY OPERATION.

IN 1785, I UNITED 8 INDIAN VILLAGES TO TAKE BACK OUR LAND FROM YOU SPANISH COLONIZERS AND THE TORTURE, RAPE, SLAVERY, AND MURDER YOU SUBJECTED US TO.

DE NEVE: DRAMA QUEEN.

DON'T FORGET THAT SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA SAVED YOUR SOULS.

TOYPURINA: YEAH, A SAINT WHO DOES THE WHIPPING.

I THOUGHT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

DE NEVE: YES.

WELL, THERE'S OTHER THINGS TO BE GRATEFUL FOR.

FATHER SERRA BUILT MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, MISSION PLAYA VISTA, MISSION ORSINI APARTMENTS.

MY UNIT IS AVAILABLE ON AIRBNB--GRANITE TOPS, VIEWS OF THE 110, 101-- TOYPURINA: DUDE, YOU KNOW WHO'S BURIED RIGHT HERE AND ONLY OCCASIONALLY DUG UP AND REBURIED?

THE TONGVA PEOPLE, THE ACTUAL FIRST SETTLERS WHO BUILT YOUR CHURCH, BY THE WAY.

IT WAS OUR HANDS, OUR BACKS, OUR MUSCLES THAT BUILT YOUR COLONIAL PRISONS.

I MEAN, MISSIONS.

[BAND PLAYING] PICO: ♪ LA HA HA ♪ LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, DAMAS Y CABALLEROS, LET ME PRESENT TO YOU MYSELF--THE TWO-TIME GOVERNOR OF ALTA CALIFORNIA, PRE-19th-CENTURY, AFRO-MESTIZO JERRY BROWN.

PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR ME-- PIO PICO!

GUTIERREZ: PIO PICO.

STREETS, SCHOOLS, AND LIBRARIES BEAR HIS NAME.

MARTINEZ: HIS LIFE SPANS THE 19th CENTURY, AND HE WAS THE LAST GOVERNOR OF MEXICAN CALIFORNIA.

PICO: YES.

WE TOOK DOWN THE SPANISH FLAG RIGHT HERE... AND WE PUT UP THE MEXICAN ONE RIGHT HERE IN THE PLAZA.

OH, AHA.

"HECHO IN CHINA, 100% POLYESTER."

AH, THE BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL CENTRO DE LA PLAZA, THE CORRIDOS, THE AVILAS, THE SEPULVEDAS, AH, THE BEAUTIFUL FIESTAS.

DE NEVE: WE GAVE YOU FIESTAS.

PICO: AH, THE BEAUTIFUL FANDANGO.

DE NEVE: WE GAVE YOU FANDANGOS.

PICO: AH, NO.

NO.

WE LIBERATED OURSELVES FROM THE IBERIAN COLONIALISM.

AH, THE GOLDEN ERA OF THE CALIFORNIO-- TOYPURINA: YEAH, YOUR GOLDEN AGE, OUR DECIMATION.

PICO: OH, YES, MY FIRST NATIONS SISTER WITH WHOM I AM ALWAYS IN SOLIDARITY EXCEPT WHEN I'M DISPLACING YOU.

TOYPURINA: YOU MAY THINK YOU BUILT A MEXICAN PUEBLO, SENOR PICO, BUT YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE WE CHOSE THIS PLACE BEFORE YOU.

WE SAW IT AND KNEW IT WAS OUR HOME.

EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE IS ALONG A TONGVA PATH.

PICO: OLE.

HEY, WHY DON'T YOU COME AND WATCH ME IN MY CRIB?

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO MY CRIB?

HAVE YOU SEEN MY CRIB?

MY CRIB IS A NICE CRIB.

EVERYONE, COME TO MY CRIB.

THIS WAY.

COME TO MY CRIB, MY CRIB.

COME, COME.

MY CRIB--LA CASA DE PICO.

HEY, WELCOME TO MY HOUSE, MI CASA.

IT'S THE BIGGEST CASA IN THE WHOLE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THE FIRST 3-STORY CASA.

BECAUSE IT'S MY HOUSE AND IT'S YOUR HOUSE, MI CASA ES SU CASA.

SU CASA ES MI CASA.

COME TO MY HOUSE.

EVERYBODY, COME TO MY HOUSE.

COME WITH ME.

COME.

COME.

COME WITH ME.

YES.

COME TO MY HOUSE.

BIENVENIDOS A LA CASA DE PICO.

WELL, I'M DOING A LITTLE DINNER TONIGHT, NOTHING TOO FANCY, JUST A LITTLE CABRITO, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE ORGANIC-FED SHOULDER OF A DEAD GOAT.

LET ME INTRODUCE TO YOU MY FAVORITE PERSON IN THIS CITY, MY SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOR, A REAL MIRA-MIRA MERCHANT, A REAL CHINGONA OF CHARITY, A VERITABLE REINA OF RELIGION, THE FOUNDER OF THE FIRST AME CHURCH IN THIS CITY.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I PRESENT TO YOU MI LOVELY COMPANERA, MY SISTER BIDDY MASON.

MASON: HA HA HA!

GUTIERREZ: BIDDY MASON COMES WEST A SLAVE AND FREES HERSELF IN LOS ANGELES IN A LANDMARK 1856 COURT CASE.

A MIDWIFE, LANDOWNER, PHILANTHROPIST, AND CHURCH FOUNDER, SHE IS RENOWNED FOR HER CHARITY, FEEDING AND SHELTERING THE POOR OF LOS ANGELES.

SHE OFTEN DINED WITH PIO PICO.

MASON: HA HA HA!

PICO: HA HA HA!

MASON: HA HA HA!

AHH!

AHH!

AH, THANK YOU, GOBERNADOR.

THANK YOU, AHH, BUT I MUST TELL YOU, AS MUCH AS MY HANDS ARE OPEN, OTHERS HAVE CLENCHED FISTS.

I'M HELPING EVERYBODY.

I CATCH BABIES--BROWN, BLACK, WHITE--BUT IT'S THE GREEN OF GREED THAT DIVIDES US.

IT MAKES US MISTAKE OUR NEIGHBORS FOR STRANGERS, AND STRANGERS ARE EASY TARGETS.

PICO: YES.

MY FRIEND--AGING, CHICANO HIPSTER--AND YOU--YOU YOUNGISH, QUEER, CHICANA CRITICAL STUDIES NERD--YOU HAVE COME TO FIND YOUR HISTORY.

YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR YOUR ROOTS, SO KUNTA KINTE.

¿QUE NO?

WELL, IT'S A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT.

TAKE ME, FOR INSTANCE, EH?

BOTH OF MY PARENTS WERE MULATTOS.

MY MOTHER WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING POBLADORES, SO WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT LOS ANGELES FROM THE VERY BEGINNING WAS-- MARTINEZ AND GUTIERREZ: MIXED.

PICO: OH, NO.

NO.

I PREFER AFRO-MESTIZO, SO YOU CAN CALL ME YOUR GODFATHER.

MASON: HA HA HA!

WELL, YOU PROBABLY OWE MORE TO MY CHURCH, HOUSE OF THE OPEN HAND, THAN TO THE CASA DE PICO.

PICO: HA HA HA!

MASON: LOS ANGELES COULD HAVE NEVER SURVIVED SO MANY CONQUESTS WITHOUT THE KIND OF SOLIDARITY I EMBODIED.

I AM YOUR GODMOTHER.

HA HA HA!

GUTIERREZ: BIDDY, WOULD YOU MIND IF WE TOOK A SELFIE REAL QUICK?

MASON: YOU MEAN AN US-IE.

PICO: AH.

PHOTO BOMB.

[BEEP] HA HA HA!

TONG: HOLA, PIO.

HEY, BIDDY.

SORRY I'M LATE.

THERE'S SOME CABRITO LEFT, I HOPE.

MARTINEZ: A LEADER IN THE THRIVING CHINESE COMMUNITY OF THE 1870s, DR.

CHIN LEE TONG IS A PRACTITIONER OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE.

HE TREATS CHINESE, MEXICANS, AND ANGLOS ALIKE.

HE LIVES TWO BLOCKS FROM THE PICO HOUSE, AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE SITE OF ONE OF L.A.

's MOST TRAGIC EVENTS--THE CHINESE MASSACRE.

PICO: FOR YOU, DR.

TONG, THERE IS ALWAYS CABRITO.

HOW ARE YOU?

TONG: AH, YOU KNOW, THE USUAL.

THE GRINGOS KEEP ASKING ME FOR REIKI, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I TELL THEM I'M NOT JAPANESE.

PICO: OH, YES.

WELL, YOU KNOW DR.

TONG, OF COURSE.

HE IS AN EXPERT IN EASTERN MEDICINE.

HE REALLY KNOWS HIS HERBS.

YES.

NOW, WHERE WOULD CALIFORNIA BE WITHOUT THE EAST?

DR.

TONG, WHAT'S WRONG?

THE GRINGOS GOT YOU DOWN?

TONG: UH, HONESTLY, IT'S WORSE THAN THAT.

THEY WERE HAPPY TO IMPORT OUR BODIES WHEN THEY WANTED LABOR, BUT NOW THEY TREAT US LIKE PARASITES.

MASON: THAT'S RIGHT.

THEY WANT YOUR BODY AND IGNORE YOU HAVE A SOUL.

TONG: WE ARE AS EXILES IN OUR OWN HOME.

PICO: OUR HOMELAND IS NO LONGER OURS, DR.

TONG.

TONG: GOOD SENOR, TAKE THIS REMEDY FOR YOUR CULTURAL DISSONANCE.

PICO: AH, AND TAKE THIS, POR FAVOR, FOR THE CHILL.

MASON: AND TAKE MY HANDS AND BE COMFORTED.

[3 SNARE DRUM HITS] WITNESS: SHOTS FIRED ON CALLE DE LOS NEGROS RIGHT BEHIND THE PICO HOUSE.

MARTINEZ: THE WITNESS HAS BEEN HERE ALL ALONG OBSERVING TRAUMATIC EVENTS ACROSS OUR CITY'S HISTORY, MAKING THE PAST PRESENT.

WITNESS: OCTOBER 24, 1871.

A TURF WAR BETWEEN TWO RIVAL CHINESE TONGS--THE HONG CHOW AND THE NIN YUNG.

OFFICER JESUS BILDERRAIN RESPONDS.

BILDERRAIN IS A GAMBLER, A LIAR, AND A THIEF, A CORRUPT COP SECRETLY WORKING FOR THE HONG CHOW.

HE CHASES A NIN YUNG GANG MEMBER INTO THE CORNELL BUILDING AND IS SHOT IN THE SHOULDER.

[BANG] OFFICER DOWN!

[WHISTLE BLOWS] ROBERT THOMPSON HEARS THE OFFICER'S WHISTLE.

HE RUNS TO THE CORNELL BUILDING.

HE OPENS THE DOOR AND FIRES ON THE CHINESE INSIDE.

[BANG BANG] THEY FIRE BACK... [BANG BANG] KILLING HIM.

[TWO SNARE DRUM HITS] MARTINEZ: A MOB QUICKLY FORMS.

GUTIERREZ: THE CORNELL BUILDING IS SURROUNDED BY VIGILANTES, MEXICANS AND ANGLOS ALIKE.

MARTINEZ: SOME OF THEM CHOP A HOLE IN THE ROOF, SHOOT THE CHINESE BELOW.

TOYPURINA: HANDS UP!

[TWO SNARE DRUM HITS] DON'T SHOOT.

PICO: CITY COUNCILMAN GEORGE FALL RAINS DOWN ON THE CHINESE WITH A WOODEN PLANK.

[TWO SNARE DRUM HITS] MARTINEZ: H.F.

MITCHELL, REPORTER FOR THE "DAILY STAR," SHOUTS, "HANG THEM!

HANG THEM!"

GUTIERREZ: TWO OVERTURNED WAGONS FROM JOHN GOLLER'S WAGON SHOP ARE FASHIONED INTO GALLOWS.

[TWO SNARE DRUM HITS] TOYPURINA: NOT ON OUR LAND.

GUTIERREZ: THE BOY WHO WORKS AT THE DRY GOODS SHOP COMES RUNNING.

MARTINEZ: "HERE'S MORE ROPE," HE SHOUTS HELPFULLY.

WITNESS: 1/10 OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF LOS ANGELES JOINS IN THE MASSACRE.

WA SIN KEI, CHUNG WA, LONG KWEI, JUNG BURLES, AH LONG, HONG WAN, AH LU, WAN FU, DEI KEI, PO HING, AH WA, AH KWAT, DOH HEI, AH WEN, WING XI, WONG DUK, KWON YU.

TOYPURINA: THEIR LIVES MATTER.

WITNESS: THE POPULAR, MUCH-BELOVED DR.

CHEN LEE TONG IS SEIZED.

TONG: NO!

PATRICK!

JESUS!

YOU CAN'T DO THIS.

WITNESS: HE PLEADS FOR HIS LIFE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH.

TONG: [SHOUTS IN SPANISH] POR EL AMOR DE DIOS!

WITNESS: HE OFFERS THEM HIS RING TO SPARE HIS LIFE.

TONG: TOMA EL ANILLO.

JUST TAKE MY RING.

LET ME LIVE.

WITNESS: THEY STRIP OFF HIS CLOTHES.

THEY CUT HIS RING FINGER OFF.

[BANG] THEY SHOOT HIM IN THE MOUTH, AND THEN THEY HANG HIM.

TOYPURINA: 18 DEAD CHINESE, 500 WITNESSES, NO CONVICTIONS.

NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE.

GUTIERREZ: DEPORTATION BY WAY OF LYNCHING.

MARTINEZ: IT WAS TIME TO CLEAN UP THE PLAZA, MAKE WAY FOR THE BOOMTOWN.

GUTIERREZ: THAT MEANS YOU, TOO, GOBERNADOR.

PICO: I'M GOING TO LOSE MI CASA.

MARTINEZ: SWINDLED IN A LANGUAGE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, FORECLOSED ON BY THE GRINGOS.

THEY'LL SELL IT FOR 16,000 AT AUCTION.

PICO: I BUILT IT FOR 85.

MARTINEZ: THEY'LL FLIP IT FOR A HUNDRED.

IT'S TIME TO GO.

MASON: COME ON, OLD MAN.

THEY MIGHT HAVE STOLEN YOUR BUILDING, BUT YOUR NAME IS STILL ON IT.

[BAND PLAYING] MARTINEZ: THE CALIFORNIA GLORY OF THE PLAZA FADES.

NEGLECTED, IT BECOMES A GRASSY CIRCLE WHERE THE UNEMPLOYED AND THE UNWANTED GATHER.

GUTIERREZ: WHICH MEANS THAT AT THE DAWN OF THE 20th CENTURY, IT BECOMES FERTILE GROUND FOR... BOTH: REVOLUCION.

MARTINEZ: OUR ANARCHIST SCENE, FINALLY.

GUTIERREZ: YOU'VE BEEN REALLY PATIENT.

MAGON: LET'S TAKE BACK THE PLAZA!

♪ 1, 2, 3, 4 ♪ GUTIERREZ: ANARCHIST RICARDO FLORES MAGON, EXILED BY MEXICAN DICTATOR PORFIRIO DIAZ, SETS UP HIS REVOLUTIONARY NEWSPAPER OFFICE A COUPLE OF BLOCKS AWAY.

MARTINEZ: HE WRITES ABOUT CONFRONTING TYRANNY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.

YOU CAN TRACE THE ROOTS OF THE CHICANO/CHICANA... GUTIERREZ: CHICANX.

MARTINEZ: MOVEMENT RIGHT BACK TO THIS MOMENT.

THE PLACE IS HERE.

THE TIME IS NOW.

GUTIERREZ: EL LUGAR ESTA AQUI, Y EL TIEMPO AHORA.

TOYPURINA: [SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE] MARTINEZ: SIAMOS EL CENTRO DE LA REVOLUCION MUNDIAL, COMPANEROS.

GUTIERREZ: WE'RE AT THE CENTER OF WORLD REVOLUTION, COMRADES.

MARTINEZ: LUCIA NORMAN, RICARDO FLORES MAGON'S STEPDAUGHTER, IS A MIXED-RACE, BILINGUAL, POOR CHICANA INVOLVED IN CLANDESTINE MEETINGS, FUNDRAISING, RALLIES, AND RIOTS, ALL RIGHT HERE IN THE PLAZA.

TOYPURINA: TIME TO STEP IN TO YOUR ROLE IN HISTORY.

IT COMES WITH A COSTUME.

GUTIERREZ: HMM.

[TAPE REWINDS] COMRADES, YOU KNOW ME.

I AM THE DAUGHTER OF RICARDO FLORES MAGON AND MARIA TALAVERA, A SOCIALIST MOTHER AND AN ANARCHIST FATHER, SO YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE A PENCHANT FOR ORDERLY CHAOS.

MARTINEZ: EACH TIME RICARDO FLORE MAGON IS JAILED BY THE LAPD FOR HIS RADICAL ORGANIZING, HIS TEENAGE STEPDAUGHTER LUCIA NORMAN IS AT THE HEAD OF THE MARCHES AGITATING FOR HIS FREEDOM.

GUTIERREZ: BUT IT'S TIME, TIME TO CONSIDER A WOMAN'S BODY EQUAL TO A MAN'S IN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

IT'S TIME TO REALIZE THAT THE BORDERS BETWEEN COUNTRIES ARE LINES OF CONVENIENCE IMAGINED BY THE BARONS OF BUSINESS TO CHEAPEN THE BODIES OF LABORERS.

THIS GIRL IS AWESOME.

MARTINEZ: RIOT GRRRL.

GUTIERREZ: YEAH, LIKE ALLISON WOLFE OF BRATMOBILE OR BEFORE THEN, LIKE ALICE BAG, THE BAGS PLAYING AT THE HONG KONG CAFE IN THE SEVENTIES.

I WAS ONLY 3, BUT STILL-- MARTINEZ: I WAS THERE.

PUNK AND NEW WAVE WAS THE PERFECT HOME FOR BROWN OUTSIDERS LIKE US.

GUTIERREZ: LUCIA NORMAN WAS A RIOT GRRRL OF HER DAY.

THE BLOOD THAT SOAKS THIS LAND, THIS LAND THAT HAS SEEN CONQUEST AFTER CONQUEST AND AFTER CONQUEST, THE BLOOD WILL CRY OUT TO THE LIVING TO NEVER FORGET AND TO TAKE BACK WHAT WAS STOLEN.

JUSTICE WILL ONLY COME IF AND WHEN WE TAKE THE LAW INTO OUR OWN HANDS.

WHEN THE LAPD MASHERS ARRIVE, WE WILL BE READY.

PULL OUT YOUR HAT PINS.

[DRUMSTICKS TAP] FLASH-FORWARD TO THE LATE 20th AND EARLY 21st CENTURIES TO THE PUNK SCENE IN L.A.

AND THE RIOT GRRRL MOVEMENT IN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, THE LUCIA NORMANS OF THE DAY FIGHTING MISOGYNY ON EVERY FRONT.

ALICE BAG OF THE BAGS AND ALLISON WOLFE OF BRATMOBILE.

[ELECTRIC HUM] [FEEDBACK] CHANDLER: THE PALMER RAIDS OF 1919.

RADICAL AND PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITIES ARE CRUSHED, 3,000 ARRESTED, 500 DEPORTED.

LUCIA NORMAN'S ANARCHIST FATHER RICARDO FLORES MAGON DIES AT LEAVENWORTH, AND LUCIA, YOUR RIOT GRRRL, WELL, SHE BITES THE DUST DUE TO A FEVER AT AGE 24.

MARTINEZ: HARRY CHANDLER-- PUBLISHER OF THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES," AN OUTSIZED CIVIC BOOSTER, AND DEVELOPER.

HE HELPED BUILD THE COLISEUM, THE BILTMORE HOTEL, AND THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL.

HE WAS ALSO A NOTED EUGENICIST.

CHANDLER: IT'S 1929, AND LOOK WHAT THE ETHNICS HAVE DONE TO THE OLD PLAZA--TAXI DANCE HALLS, HOT JOINTS, TAMALE STANDS, PEEP SHOWS.

IT'S AN AWFUL, FILTHY, MUDDY STEW OF HUMAN LIFE AS THICK AND FULL OF MYSTERIOUS INGREDIENTS AS CHILI CON CARNE AND AS QUICK TO BURN.

GOOD PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES, HAVEN'T WE HAD ENOUGH?

ONCE AND FOR ALL, ISN'T IT TIME TO RAZE THESE SQUALID HOVELS AND PUT IN SOME ARTIST WORK/LIVE LOFTS?

[BAND PLAYING] STERLING: HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF ROMANCE, SIR?

DO YOU NOT HEAR THE CASTANETS?

DOES YOUR HEART NOT THRILL TO THE SOUND OF SOFTLY STAMPING, LITTLE, LATIN FEET?

CHANDLER: WHO ARE YOU?

STERLING: I HAVE A VISION, HARRY CHANDLER OF THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES," A VISION OF A HAPPY, MEXICAN STREET--NO RABBLE, NO ANARCHIST/COMMUNIST ILLEGALS.

NO.

WE WILL HAVE CORRIDOS AND TACOS, MARIACHIS AND FLAN.

COME.

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH ME TO A NEW OLD OLVERA STREET, A STREET OF MEMORIES.

CHANDLER: LIKE A THEME PARK.

STERLING: LIKE A MEXICAN MICKEY MOUSE BUT WITH A SOMBRERO INSTEAD OF EARS, AND THE ONLY RIDE IS ON A STUFFED DONKEY.

WE WILL HAVE DELICIOUS RESTAURANTS AND WONDERFUL CURIO STALLS, AND, TO KICK THE AUTHENTICITY UP A NOTCH, I'LL HIRE REAL MEXICANS TO JUST NAP UNDER THEIR SOMBREROS ALL DAY LONG.

CHANDLER: MY DEAR CHRISTINE STERLING, I LOVE IT.

DOLORES DEL RIO.

STERLING: RUDY VALENTINO.

I FOUND THE MOST AMAZING DUO THAT SINGS THE TRADITIONAL SONGS OF OLD MEXICO.

DAMAS Y CABALLEROS, MARGARITA DEL RIO Y JUAN MARTINEZ.

MARTINEZ: JUAN MARTINEZ Y MARGARITA DEL RIO ARE MY GRANDPARENTS.

DEL RIO: HOLA, RUBENCITO.

MARTINEZ: HOLA, ABUELA.

STERLING: OH, YOU MUST BE SO PROUD, YOU 21st-CENTURY, AGING, CHICANO HIPSTER PERSON.

GUTIERREZ: AW, YOUR GRANDSON'S A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK PLAYING ROCK AND ROLL.

MARTINEZ: YEAH.

I ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT WORKING ON OLVERA STREET AND PLAYING FOR THE TOURISTS.

GUTIERREZ: YOU MEAN, WHETHER OR NOT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT THEY WERE PERFORMING, THOUGHT ABOUT BEING STEREOTYPED?

MARTINEZ: YEAH, WHAT THEY MADE OF CHRISTINE STERLING, WHETHER THEY WERE GRATEFUL OR RESENTFUL.

DEL RIO AND MARTINEZ: BOTH.

GUTIERREZ: YOU MEAN, HOW PEOPLE DESIRE MEXICANS, EVEN THOUGH THEY HATE THEM?

MARTINEZ: YEAH--LATIN LOVERS, LAZY MEXICANS, SPITFIRES, SPICS.

GUTIERREZ: THE STAGE THAT YOUR GRANDPARENTS PERFORMED ON WAS A COLONIZED BROWN BOX, BUT--LIKE RICKY RICARDO, SOFIA VERGARA-- THEY HAD THE LAST LAUGH.

THEY EXPLOITED THEIR STEREOTYPES.

MUY META.

IT'S A TIME-HONORED TRADITION.

STERLING: YOU'RE ALWAYS SNEERING AT ME AND MY INAUTHENTIC CULTURAL THEME PARK, HUH, BUT DEEP DOWN--ADMIT IT--IN YOUR IRONIC POLO CHICA WAY, YOU LIKE YOURSELF A LITTLE MEXIKITCH, HUH--AM I RIGHT?--AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE CHRISTINE STERLING, THE MOTHER OF OLVERA STREET, IS YOUR GODMOTHER, TOO.

GUTIERREZ AND MARTINEZ: NAH!

STERLING: COME ON.

BACK TO WORK.

MORE COLORS, THAT'S WHAT THIS STREET NEEDS, TROPICAL COLORS, SOMETHING EFFUSIVE.

I'LL HIRE A MEXICAN ARTIST TO PAINT A CELEBRATION OF OUR HERITAGE.

TOYPURINA: YOUR TURN, COMES WITH A COSTUME.

STERLING: IT WILL BE THE CENTERPIECE OF THE ENTIRE STREET.

ROCKEFELLER CAN HAVE HIS DIEGO RIVERA.

I'LL HIRE DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS TO PAINT ON THE THEME OF TROPICAL AMERICA.

MARTINEZ: AH, MRS.

STERLING AND COMRADES, I'M SO PLEASED THAT YOU COULD COME TO THE UNVEILING.

IT IS TIME.

GUTIERREZ: DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS, THE COMMUNIST MURALIST FROM MEXICO, ARRIVED IN L.A.

IN 1931 READY TO USE HIS PAINTBRUSH TO STIR THE MASSES TO REBELLION.

HE AND HIS PATRON CHRISTINE STERLING ARE THE PRINCIPAL PLAYERS IN THE CITY'S MOST INFAMOUS STORY OF ART AND CENSORSHIP RIGHT HERE ON OLVERA STREET.

MARTINEZ: I HAVE BEEN WORKING FEVERISHLY ALL NIGHT LONG ON MY MASTERPIECE USING A NEW TECHNOLOGY--AIRBRUSH PAINTING, COMING SOON TO A CHERRY LOWRIDER IMPALA NEAR YOU IN ABOUT 3 DECADES.

I HAVE TRIED TO CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF THE RELACION BETWEEN THE ANGLO AND THE INDIO.

IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, A MAYAN TEMPLE RISING UP FROM THE JUNGLE.

STRONG, SINEWY TREES FLEX THEIR POWER.

PERCHED IN THE RIGHT CORNER A PERUVIAN PEASANT AND A MEXICAN CAMPESINO WITH RIFLES... STERLING: WHAT HAPPENED TO MY TROPICAL COLORS?

MARTINEZ: WHILE IN THE CENTER OF THE MURAL, A FEROCIOUS EAGLE SPREADS ITS WINGS.

YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT THE EAGLE STANDS FOR--¿QUE NO?--AND CAUGHT IN THE TALONS OF THE IMPERIALISTA EAGLE OF THE NORTH A CRUCIFIED INDIO LASHED TO A DOUBLE CROSS.

TOYPURINA: WE ARE THOSE WHO SEEK TO OVERTHROW AN OLD AND INHUMANE SYSTEM.

MARTINEZ: WITHIN WHICH WE, WORKERS OF THE SOIL, WORK FOR THE PARASITE AND THE POLITICIAN.

TOYPURINA: WHILE WE, THE PEOPLE, STARVE.

STERLING: SILENCIO.

CHANDLER: YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON THE MEXICAN RACE TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS IT.

DEPORT HIM.

BACK TO TIJUANA.

TOYPURINA: NO MAS DEPORTACIONES.

HOMELAND SECURITY OPERATION.

RAAH!

STERLING: I ORDER THIS MURAL WHITEWASHED.

WHAT HAVE I DONE?

I DESTROYED A MASTERPIECE.

I'VE ROBBED LOS ANGELES OF ITS PAST.

MARTINEZ: IT'S TRUE.

IT DOES FADE FROM MEMORY, BUT, FUNNY THING, DECADES OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS EAT AWAY AT THE WHITEWASH.

GUTIERREZ: YOU MEAN, ALL THOSE YEARS OF THE SMOG MAKING MY LUNGS ACHE AS A KID TURNED OUT TO BE GOOD FOR SOMETHING, AFTER ALL?

STERLING: IT COMES BACK?

GUTIERREZ: ENOUGH FOR VILLARAIGOSA TO SPEND $8 MILLION ON A VIEWING PLATFORM.

STERLING: IT'S A MILAGRO.

GUTIERREZ: MS.

STERLING-- CHRISTINE, CHRIS--YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING THAT MAYBE YOU AND I AREN'T THAT FAR APART, AFTER ALL.

WE BOTH PINE FOR THAT OLD MEXICO, MY DAD'S BOLEROS... STERLING: TAQUITOS AT CIELITO LINDO.

GUTIERREZ: AND YOU'RE SUCH A POWERFUL WOMAN.

IT'S THE 1930s, AND NO ONE MORE THAN YOU HAS MANAGED TO PUT THE CENTER OF THE CITY BACK ON THE MAP.

STERLING: I WISH I COULD WEAR PANTS.

GUTIERREZ: YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE TRAPPING THE PAST LIKE A BUG IN AMBER, BUT YOU WERE REALLY BRINGING IT BACK TO LIFE LIKE JURASSIC PARK.

MARTINEZ: AND NOW THE MEXICAN VELOCIRAPTOR MURALISTS HAVE GOTTEN LOOSE.

GUTIERREZ: YOUR CENSORSHIP ALLOWS US TO REVEAL SIQUEIROS' MESSAGE ALL OVER AGAIN.

MARTINEZ: WHILE SIQUEIROS WAS PAINTING THE MURAL, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BEGAN DEPORTING MEXICANS AND MANY AMERICANS OF MEXICAN DESCENT.

UP TO A MILLION WERE SENT BACK, SCAPEGOATED FOR THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

TODAY IT'S I.C.E.

RAIDS AND DETENTION CENTERS.

IT'S BEEN CENTURIES OF PEOPLE MOVING INTO AND BEING MOVED OUT OF THE PLAZA.

FIRST, IT WAS THE TONGVA, THEN THE CALIFORNIOS.

GUTIERREZ: THEN THE CHINESE AND THE MEXICANS.

WELL, ALWAYS THE MEXICANS.

IN THE 1980s, IT WAS THE GUATEMALANS AND THE SALVADORANS FLEEING THE WARS.

MARTINEZ: HEY, SALVIS, REPRESENT.

GUTIERREZ: I WAS 6 YEARS OLD, BUT I REMEMBER MY MOM GETTING PHONE CALLS FROM TRAUMATIZED RELATIVES BACK HOME.

EL SALVADOR WAS ALWAYS IN THE NEWS, INTERRUPTING MY CARTOONS, AND MY CITY L.A.

HAD BECOME A REFUGEE CAMP.

EL SALVADOR NEEDED SAVING, AND LA PLACITA WAS A BEACON.

MARTINEZ: BACK THEN, FATHER LUIS OLIVARES WAS THE PASTOR OF LA PLACITA CHURCH, THE ORIGINAL PUEBLO CHURCH.

I WAS A YOUNG REPORTER, AND I INTERVIEWED HIM EVERY CHANCE I GOT.

HE WAS THE LEADING VOICE IN DEFENSE OF REFUGEES AND UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, AND HE WAS MY HERO.

GUTIERREZ: PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COMING TO LA PLACITA SEEKING SUCCOR, SUSTENANCE, AND SHELTER FOR A LONG TIME.

MARTINEZ: FATHERS LUIS OLIVARES, MICHAEL KENNEDY, AND GREGORY BOYLE DECLARED THEIR CHURCHES SANCTUARIES NOT JUST FOR THE REFUGEES, BUT ALSO FOR THE HOMELESS, FOR DAY LABORERS AND STREET VENDORS DUCKING LA MIGRA OR THE LAPD.

GUTIERREZ: DAMAS Y CABALLEROS, HERE TO PLAY FATHER GREGORY BOYLE IS FATHER GREGORY BOYLE.

HE'S NOT A REPRESENTATION OF FATHER GREGORY BOYLE, BUT THEN AGAIN, HE IS.

HERE TO PLAY FATHER GREGORY BOYLE IS G-DOGG HIMSELF.

FATHER GREGORY BOYLE--A JESUIT PRIEST WHO STARTED A MINISTRY AMONG THE GANG MEMBERS OF BOYLE HEIGHTS, NEVER GIVING UP ON THEIR POTENTIAL FOR REDEMPTION.

30 YEARS AGO, HE WAS AROUND TO RESIST LA MIGRA THAT WAS SWEEPING DOWNTOWN AND DEPORTING THE DOWNTRODDEN.

BOYLE: SEPTEMBER 21, 1988, THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES."

"IT IS OUR SINCERE HOPE TO ACT TOWARD THE UNDOCUMENTED AS JESUS WOULD.

TO DO OTHERWISE WOULD BE TO DENY A TRADITION THAT HAS BEEN RESPECTED EVER SINCE THE LORD COMMANDED IN LEVITICUS, "WHEN ALIENS RESIDE WITH YOU IN YOUR LAND, DO NOT MISTREAT THEM.

YOU SHALL TREAT THE ALIENS WHO RESIDE WITH YOU NO DIFFERENTLY THAN THE NATIVES BORN AMONG YOU.

HAVE THE SAME LOVE FOR THEM AS FOR YOURSELVES."

TO THE EXTENT THAT WE OPENLY AID, ABET, AND HARBOR THE UNDOCUMENTED, WE INDEED ARE BREAKING THE LAW.

THE GOSPEL WOULD HAVE US DO NO OTHER."

MARTINEZ: I THINK THIS IS WHERE OUR STORY ENDS, RAQ.

GUTIERREZ: I THINK THE POINT IS THAT OUR STORY HASN'T ENDED.

MAN: THINK THE POINT IS, YOU CAN'T HAVE A FUTURE WITHOUT THE PAST.

GUTIERREZ: RIGHT, AND YOU CAN'T HAVE THE REAL WITHOUT THE IMAGINED.

TONG: AND YOU CAN'T HAVE THE WEST WITHOUT THE EAST.

STERLING: YOU CAN'T HAVE GENTRIFICATION WITHOUT ARTISTS.

CHANDLER: YOU CAN'T HAVE SENSATIONALIST HEADLINES WITHOUT ANARCHISTS.

MARTINEZ: AND YOU CAN'T HAVE CENSORSHIP WITHOUT ART.

GUTIERREZ: HUH?

MARTINEZ: MAYBE IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND?

MASON: AND YOU CAN'T HAVE PEACE... WITNESS: WITHOUT JUSTICE.

PICO: AND YOU CAN'T HAVE GRINGOS WITHOUT MEXICANOS.

DE NEVE: YOU CAN'T HAVE MEXICANS WITHOUT THE SPANISH.

TOYPURINA: YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY OF Y'ALL WITHOUT THE TONGVA.

MARTINEZ: AND YOU CAN'T HAVE L.A.

WITHOUT OLVERA STREET.

[DRUMSTICKS CLICK] ANNOUNCER: "ARTBOUND" IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS THROUGH THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION, THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, THE CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL, AND OTHERS.

THIS EPISODE IS MADE POSSIBLE BY LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, EASTSIDE ARTS INITIATIVE, MATERIAL WORLD FOUNDATION, AND MATERIAL WORLD FOUNDATION.