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first of all, thanks. Grace here, like most you like to do. Um, so we had a great year. U S s R. This last year, we've had three events. We have five. We were just ahead tonight, since September, so we got just off. And I think

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I said that very first. We had to remember. So we've achieved that. We got a bunch of stuff I don't wanna get in later for this year. But the lots of you, the HSS are simply is to bring the history of Santa Rosa all you folks,

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not just a few, but to make it palatable, understandable and fun year old apartment. Seriously part of the history of this town. But I've been here seven months for 70 years. We want to make it accessible and affordable, much more affordable in tonight. So you that

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you know the whole truth. You're way more use money, and each one will make it up on volume. But we're gonna keep it that way. We wanna make sure that people tell or events. So we get money here in their Children this year I make a

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donation. You start with the first day you there working history of Santa rules, and that was great People that ask questions that have to be sort of some sort of like being in someone's very casual. I hope tonight's just like that. You have a chance to

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ask questions and maybe share your experiences. That will be part of what we do have a bunch of things we're doing. So take history, Historical society of Santa Rosa work and or you're a memory. You come up. I would like to think in a very because

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way that way, taking up to sit Looking into that meeting, we think about some talks. He said, Okay, the 1st 1 that was what started it. And she was a moderator for next one. Moscow. Talk about the election and local politics a day after the election

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that was created, and she's a moderator tonight before couple of things Number one would be video tonight. So if you don't want me to go, you're shy like partner and you're SPP Law. A lot of trains here. Uh, so anyway, get back whenever the second thing

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is, you're back on the audience, right? There is help the 63 theaters embodying Clyde and it's the 20 through February, the 15th of March to pick one of these up out there. We'd love to have you support this Greek. This is just a tremendous You say

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that every time you break up. So if you feel the urge, I think I think, too, gave a barren for everything she's done to help out. And 63 theater. I was informed way. Theo, I think that I know. Um, thank you. Let's see. I'd like

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you to join me to wear. I came out here earlier. A trip that is doing a chicken chase. Well, the usual. Let's see. I can't see you. What? You see? Me and I hold a kiss actually matter. Um okay. We're gonna

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talk about everything groups tonight and ethnic groups. This group, this is talk about hair and ethnicity. Uh, and I hold this is my my little wish I had on board. I don't even think about it. But I hope that this hell will lead to five more

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panels and maybe six. So we're out in the next 2 to 3 years when we get together through four people five and talk just at about one group at a time. Have a panel on Italian Pamela Japanese and get a chance to talk more about. Get

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into it because it's it's a kind of history resonates down through the ages. Certainly today. How many times in your lifetime in our lifetimes we heard people talk about moving to a better. You know, this is this is a big deal, Better neighborhood with all that

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entails, including the flip side, it's what we're talking about. Two. I should begin by acknowledging that Sonoma County is a pretty good place to live in itself. And historically, it has been because it still is the proverbial better neighborhood for a whole parade of immigrants and

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emigres from the country and from without, from all nations from other parts. So everybody from Chinese que coming to build railroads in the 18 sixties to dust bowl migrants, depression years and Latinos across the border a great risk. So bringing it home to Santa Rosa, the

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area we will find that the phrase you into a better neighborhood, a better neighborhood implies so much more than just hiring. True, where have people of the same ethnicity clustered? That's one of the things you want to talk about in the past and present. And all

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these people here have stories to tell. Rags to riches stories, war stories. Uh, where you let's begin. First of all, let me introduce the panel. My name. Then I'm going to ask you to them. I wanted time to talk a little bit like my far right.

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We have Judy duty chunk and nephew. Warm research Yama Jack Mayo. Luba really need Jim Gray and down in the end. Jorge Ortiz. Last but not George. Uh, so Italians, you You've been here? Probably consistently. Uh, not the longest, but most, most effectively. You lose, Jack.

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Talk a little bit about your family's, where how they came and where they came from, where they started out. First of all, did you America you talk about? Not anything more than that where we came from. We're going Thank God for our ancestors before us, literally.

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Let's face, it may be a way for today. So I was born in Santa Rosa. My father was born in Santa Rosa July 19 6 the earthquake in April, a few months earlier. Folks here but said he wouldn't even four yet. But you have to be

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a footprint. My grand parents. Yes, I came from, of course, about 18 95 and settled Rosa on The people always ask, What part of Italy are you from? That's it. Big thing to talk about. It seems like my grandfather was Guaita Coast us wrong. My grandmother

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was from collaborators, So remember a vote? Rosemary Clooney Crazy column raising well refuse from So I see what I have. One more thing to tell you about my ethnicity is my mother. She was a little Frankie. Yeah, great grandparents came from this company and then from

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sweatshirt about Gina, my grandfather, who was Frankie and Randi Dairy out here. 12 road. We never meant to be a Swiss Italian grandpa. You're a Swiss time, Frankie, he says. No, you're I'm Swiss, I think you Franz. Anyway, I got it all covered for Swift, and

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it's It's all right. We'll talk a little bit more about where the Italians lived, what they did for a living, where they went to talk about the Maginot Line, as I call it with that glass wall between East and West Santa Rosa, how you penetrate that

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wall, Bring yourself up and see the calm threat right? With every ethnic group on this man, if you talk differently or didn't talkto which you got if you look differently for both. That was equated with literacy, which was far asleep. Truth for the Italians. They forgot

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about Galileo Coney. If you do those other folks in Montana you you. So we'll talk about that later. But same with every Chinese jab, spanks, waas, African Americans. They're all wonderful people, but they look differently. Your doctor, they had a stroke, so no, I mean, my

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dad came over san area, ended up Llinas Restaurant right here. 59 1923. Really? My mom were any road she used driven on roads and way mark west. You feel what's right? One born right now? Well, this is the ranch. No, my mom there 1906 Year of

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the earthquake. One later years. I think I got shook up to December. Anyway, Make that change for months. Years later. You know I'm married and lived on person. 11th person street, which is right around the corner. You hear? About four years and us Street and all

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the addresses both ended right today And there's no Richard Kind. That creep. So nice street and make my four years old move down to the ranch. Quite a large house down here and wait in Wana gardens for that or no years up through waas during words

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19 for do you wear well experiencing. So some loss of our customers forms from valuable and, uh, a lot of pressure on less expensive price More. Yeah. Uh, why, under your around basis through war, we, uh there is a situation that wasn't very family. And if

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you were not citizens, do you have you one evening, my dad see the cough? And even if you left years water way, we comply by 8 30 we comply. We Sheriff's Department stopped. Yes. What I love about Boston So you don't hurt and wait. Where? How

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solace. And you hurt? Sure, you a murder that you have. And yes, the station from there you sent to stop part in charge Heart in San Francisco, where he remained for three time meantime, left, married 16 years old. So very happy school that time you try

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to run ranch. It wasn't too long. Yes. Government decided that they made a huge state burden on families and Italian. Yeah, way refreshing way that my dad released from home. The whole thing, that he just sort of lost interest in the ranch. So we ended up

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losing ranch about two years later and that when we started on Rome trying, try and do things are going well. We're from New Orleans to find a job in those days. Warmness. You know, it was all here. So you're very fortunate. All these jobs were available

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for us life. Found our mission life. I Larry got over his educational ended up yet are you? So I using my life, Burton, for down our manufacturing here in Santa Rosa Hotel, we manufacture copy machine. You're so mostly world. So you work on your culture. Very.

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Mommy says, you know, coronation company closers, more retail shop. Yeah. No. And said we have customers. Well, fortunately, new question professional. And, uh so we went ahead and these building and open a small shop and money that you're working for us. And so every night we

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kept on the job. Well, wait, Bill, we had already you know, he says, keep asking this that this we get one that happened had start brought again. One thing. Let's get going. Job. And I have been eventually put my job there. Well, we're very fortunate. And

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do this. My mom both blob with business in a small way. My mom prepared for us for years. Yeah, you raise it, Eaker. Yeah. So you were involved in issues? Years? Very national. So moving joke describing memory testing to rest, family All well, healthy, happy, really

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sad work. The war stories. You know, there are war stories. Move. This has just told you about his dad. And I think we'll go next to Marie Soup. Who, Uh, his role stories and my parents. Okay, because the Chinese exclusion act, when they exclude the Chinese

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all sudden the room workers. And before that, the Japanese government and the United States government had an agreement that there would be limited immigration with Japanese. And so my father was fortunate in that happened to be working in Hawaii at the time that that happened. And

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so he immigrated to Healdsburg in 1905 Just before there and so And so I came with his brother and get in 1913. My mother came to marry him. And they were. Wilson arranged marriage, but they were fortunate because they knew each other. My uncle and my

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aunt and my father and mother, brothers and sisters. And so we were very close with them. He came to Healdsburg and family. Well, I quit it from Healdsburg to Santa Rosa to master. Follow the crops. So we were in the hops. We were in the vineyards

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and we were the apples. And unfortunately, we didn't get to Santa Rosa until 1950. And the reason we could not hold properly was because, first of all, we could not become citizens of the United States as a natural isis. My mother and father were here for

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50 years and they could not become citizens of the United States until 1952. And then along with that, if you're not a citizen, you could know and the people will probably they wanted, because their Children, they took bait with German 18. They were able to by

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the property indeterminacy. And so they came because they thank you for a better life. And they're very happy here. And unfortunately, during World War Two, all Japanese hurt 1000 Japanese on the West Coast were incarcerated in prison camps all over the West Coast, in the interior

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of the West Coast and combat. And if you would like to have a speaker come to speak to your organization or your school, we have speakers. Will be glad to tell you about that. That's something for another time. And, um, many families, of course, you know

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about five room and many of the families worked at our family worked also. So we will continue a little bit about our family Japanese community a little bit later in the program. The It's interesting that Japanese alien land laws that apply to both Yeah and coming

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through Hawaii. And I think some of the Chinese originally came sometime in your life. But the Chinese came very early. There were Chinese here in the 18 sixties, building railroads. It worked in the lines. Nancy Nancy Long. You want to talk a little bit about Nancy's

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president of America? I looked just really quick. Adware handle the microphone to Julie because she was born here racing here. So I think the young these way do. Is there a history way? Learn from gay driving so Chinese. We quit Lady Chinese associations called a really

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parents association. 53 We're becoming 1986 and 1996 to be coming up profits way. Provide a culture the window for the Union East and send a copy. And we have a big school. Have a culture way perform with With the holding year last Saturday, we have the

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biggest chance. You bet that sounds vast. Very. We have 650 people with dinner way. Thank you for all the communities. What us? They would have a chance to serve the community. But I have a duty to talk about the history, what Jen's had go through, he

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said. You said I was born here, Rosa, because maternity ward I the main streets of basketball. I left to go to the West Indies to teach, and we sold mothers house when she live by yourself in too. So we're a long time from here. I sitting

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here because I want my life a very determined man that became involved with the Chinese Association and