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Question 1

DJ: Quien tiene una cancion para pedir?

Answer 1

Hello- I’m trying to call cosmico efe eme can you please get off the line so I can make my call!
YES I KNOW this is a party line. please! I have to make this call!
Yes, thanks…alright alright! I’ll be quick!

Question 2

DJ: Quien esta en la linea

Answer 2

Hola! Soy Lucia! Queria pedir la cancion Las Mananitas para mi abuela, es su compleanos hoy.

Question 3

B: My mom tried to pick up their traditions, carry them on, but.. things change.

Answer 3

It started with two or three families

Question 4

C: Not families, individuals

Answer 4

more like investors

Question 5

C: They bought a couple of houses

Answer 5

They’re the ones that started the movement of you know, trying to “clean up” the neighborhood

Question 6

D: And don’t forget to turn your music down!

Answer 6

WHAT???

Question 7

C: Because it’s going to become valuable

Answer 7

A lot us were noticing

Question 8

Alma: So they could flip it

Answer 8

and then they’d go to another minority and offer

Question 9

C: Not understanding the value of what they had

Answer 9

We were going to different families that we knew were going to sell

Question 10

D: you know you need a permit to play soccer now, right?

Answer 10

WHAT??

Question 11

B: Long time residents had little means to rehabilitate their own property and or landlords were remiss to provide the needed repairs

Answer 11

And then people migrated.
A lot of the families moved for many reasons, like they’re moving now for housing costs, employment, it jut didn’t feel the same. And so that was a big change.

Question 12

B: But it also improved the neighborhood, and made it safer

Answer 12

Some of things that are still standing are nice

Question 13

D: Alright, who put this couch on my porch?

Answer 13

WHAT?

Question 14

B: You know what, we had one of the most unified communities
(6 shots)

Answer 14

When Jimmy and Artie got killed by the cops at Curtis Park-how many people showed up?

Question 15

C: But they didn’t bother anybody you know

Answer 15

They used to clean the park too

Question 16

D: But the cops thought he had a gun. He didn’t have a gun

Answer 16

It was so screwed up

Question 17

D: Yeah so we called all the people in

Answer 17

We met at the park

Question 18

C: so you know when people talk about curtis park and they look at all this stuff

Answer 18

and see us as “bad kids” because we’re from here

Question 19

C: these matters wouldn’t have been given attention by city administrations

Answer 19

the gentrification didn’t help either. it created separation and strife

Question 20

which caused daily conflicts

Answer 20

there was a lot going on

Question 21

we’re going to rebuild cherry creek and all our neighborhoods are going to benefit from that

Answer 21

Our park is downtown

Question 22

D: and preservation endeavors for the future of this inner city neighborhood

Answer 22

And so we said, okay!

Question 23

Alma: So, what happened to the name?

Answer 23

June 1987 El Gallo! Get your copy of El Gallo! Extra! Extra! Power to the people! The city has officially announced the name change of Curtis Park to Mestizo-Curtis park.

Question 24

B: So officially, it became Mestizo-Curtis park

Answer 24

That name was part of our identity

Question 25

B: So we'd always go for red seal chips or the pickles

Answer 25

We were probably the first family on the block to have a television. in the summer, mom would open the french windows in the living room, turn the TV to face outside, and invite all the neighborhood kids to watch from the lawn in front of the house.

Question 26

Alma: Hold on to the property!

Answer 26

Please don't sell!