Planting L.A. Seeds in Phoenix
Whichever Way I’m Driving on I-10, I’m Heading Home
My aunt Marta asks, When are you coming back home?
She means Los Angeles: Long Beach, Lynwood, Lakewood, Norwalk, Azusa. L.A. County. She even means Orange County. “Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles” is as widespread as my family, just as populated too.
My great-grandmother arrived in the city’s center as a teenager, dragging a suit trunk and memories of her dead parents from the old country. She arrived by train before Prohibition and began work in the garment district at a sewing factory off Broadway and 7th. She ate from …
