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LMF, director Patricio Ginelsa and the Black Eyed Peas receive preservation award
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Stockton, CA - The Little Manila Foundation (LMF) along with the Black Eyed Peas (BEP) and director Patricio Ginelsa received the President’s Award for Excellence from the California Preservation Foundation in Hollywood last Friday. The groups were recognized for their unique collaboration to preserve Filipino American history, a part of American society that is highly under represented in mainstream publications. The Stockton-based Little Manila Foundation partnered with Ginelsa and the Black Eyed Peas in March 2007 to create a historical treatment of their music video for the group’s song, “Bebot.” Black Eyed Peas member Apl de Ap performs the song entirely in the Philippines’ dominant language Pilipino or Tagalog, quite uncommon for a mainstream hip-hop band. Bebot quickly became Filipino Americans’ anthem. (more…) |
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Foundation to honor Filipino effort
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Click here to view the original article. April 25, 2007 - Sacramento Bee The Little Manila Foundation and Black Eyed Peas will be honored next week by the California Preservation Foundation for their efforts to preserve remains of what was once the country’s largest Filipino neighborhood. (more…)
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In Stockton, area was hub of Filipino life
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Little Manila is now a shadow of itself; group rallies around what’s left Click here to view the original article. By Bobby Caina Calvan - Sacramento Bee Staff Writer Most evenings, Stockton’s Little Manila bustled. Dance halls hopped. Barbershops buzzed with the banter of young Filipino men, the picture of prosperity in suits and fedoras.Pool halls crackled with excitement. Card rooms packed them in. Hotels filled with men seeking respite from the crowded barracks in the farm camps and asparagus fields outside town.
Little Manila was roaring. (more…) |
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Students glimpse Filipino history in downtown Stockton
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Little Manila tour is ‘eye opener’
Click here to view original article. By Ian Hill Pearl Pagarigan traveled more than 300 miles to see Stockton’s Little Manila. She was taken aback by what she saw. Once a vibrant community, home to the largest concentration of Filipinos in the United States, the downtown neighborhood was decimated by the construction of the Crosstown Freeway in the 1960s and further impacted by other downtown redevelopment projects. Only a few buildings remain, and some are crumbling and dilapidated. “It’s kind of an eye opener,” said Pagarigan, 18, a UCLA freshman from Delano who toured Little Manila this past weekend. (more…) |
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Preserving a way of life
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Volunteers give historic Filipino building face lift STOCKTON - The Little Manila Foundation is reviving the streets in the southern shadow of the Crosstown Freeway, one fresh coat of paint at a time. Dozens of people from Stockton’s Filipino community spent their Saturday painting the Daguhoy Lodge building on the corner of Hunter and Hazelton streets in the second annual Fight the Blight event that aims to rescue a once-vibrant neighborhood from the neglects of time. (more…) |
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Little Manila comes alive
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Pop video stars historic club STOCKTON - Stockton’s Filipino history is brought to life in a new music video by one of the world’s biggest pop groups. The video for the Black Eyed Peas’ “Bebot” begins at a local asparagus farm in the 1930s and continues at the Rizal Social Club, which at the time was a popular East Lafayette Street nightspot for Filipino men. The song’s lyrics are in Tagalog, a Filipino language. |
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Sprucing up Little Manila
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Barrio Fiesta starts two-day run downtown STOCKTON — Volunteers for the Little Manila Foundation gathered Saturday morning to paint and clean the Iloilo Circle building, home to one of the oldest Filipino-American organizations in the country. (more…) |
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Little Manila foundation turns to residents
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By Emil Guillermo STOCKTON — The Little Manila Foundation has enlisted help of property-owning residents in order to revive and rebuild the struggling neighborhood south of downtown Stockton. (more…) |
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Lessons of green giants
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By Emil Guillermo It’s Asparagus Festival weekend. We all have asparagus on the brain. Have fun out there on the waterfront, and celebrate the long green ones. (more…) |
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Filipino culture, history discussed at conference
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By Yasmin Assemi Bello, 25, wasn’t active in Stockton’s Filipino community growing up but now wants to know more about its history and culture so he can learn about their triumphs and mistakes and, ultimately, himself. (more…) |
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Sowing some vital ’seeds’
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A letter to the editor Stockton is planning to select a developer for the Gleason Park Commercial Master Development Area, an eight-block section south of the Crosstown Freeway that includes the Little Manila District. (more…) |
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Historic, or just old?
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By Bob Frost Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, San Francisco’s City Hall — these are among the scores of magnificent old structures in the United States that are easy to love and preserve as monuments to our history. But what about three scruffy old buildings in Stockton — the Mariposa Hotel, Emerald Restaurant and Rizal Social Club? (more…) |
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Look for the car in the barn
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By Michael Fitzgerald The Gleason Park neighborhood spiraled in the 1980s into Stockton’s Dope Fiend District, a nightmare for law abiders who hunker there in homes. It’s overdue for change. (more…) |
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Big push to save Little Manila
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Filipino Americans try to preserve Stockton’s symbols of immigration history Rick DelVecchio, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, July 16, 2003 Young Filipino Americans are fighting to save what’s left of historic Little Manila, a downtown neighborhood that marks the heart of the Filipino immigrant story in North America. |
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Preserving Little Manila
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Local film, national TV show make case for conservationBy Howard Lachtman Two new films, premiering tonight, call local and national attention to Stockton’s Filipino American community and its ongoing efforts to preserve the history of its contributions to San Joaquin County. |
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Family farms fade into past
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By Emil Guillermo
The Record - July 6, 2003 A city kid, I left my fog in San Francisco. But my roots, literally, have always been in Stockton — home of my onions, asparagus, eggplants, green peppers and bitter melon. |
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Filipino group ‘viable’ bidder
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By Emil Guillermo The Record - July 1, 2003 The Little Manila Foundation, a grass-roots group seeking to preserve three historic buildings in Stockton’s Gleason Park area, is a viable competitor in the bid to win the entire project and should be able to meet the October proposal deadline, a former Oakland planning commissioner said Monday. |
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Comin’ of age with a richer respect of dad
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Many Filipinos started families late in America
By Emil Guillermo Dillon Delvo remembers the day his father, Cipriano, explained their relationship. “He said, ‘I am old, I might die, and when I die, you are the man of the house,’ “Delvo said. |
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Left out in Little Manila
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Filipino group to lobby for preservation, fair processBy Emil Guillermo Magdalena Remolana, 74, and her roommates may be forced to find a new home. Jim Soares’ Chapel of the Palms funeral home will not. The difference is that Remolana’s home is in the Gleason Commercial Master Development Area, and Soares’ nearby business isn’t. |
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Saving a Harsh Picture of the Past
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Filipinos hope to preserve Stockton’s Little Manila to tell their story By John M. Glionna Leatrice Bantillo-Perez knows they’re not much to look at — these three dilapidated storefronts slouching in the shadow of a noisy downtown freeway in this heat-raked Central Valley community. The boarded-up hotel, abandoned dance hall and former union lodge are all that remain of a once-vibrant Philippine American neighborhood known as Little Manila. |
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