This collection consists of two typed manuscripts, both stamped "Triplicate" in the lower right-hand corner of the cover and with the heading "El Monte From the Pioneer Days." The first volume has the secondary heading "Biographical Sketches," and the second volume has the heading "Chapters I to XIV, Inclusive, Part One; and Chapters XV to XXV, Inclusive, Part Two." The title page of the second volume reads: El Monte From the Pioneer Days, History and Biographical Sketches compiled and written for the City of El Monte by the Works Progress Administration, Project N-5740. Supervisors: C.D. Maxon, Fred J. Brown, Lee Stoddard, Charles G. Mudd. A chart in Chapter XXIV documents the city's governing officers from 1912-1937.
This collection consists of two typed manuscripts, both stamped "Triplicate" in the lower right-hand corner of the cover and with the heading "El Monte From the Pioneer Days." The first volume has the secondary heading "Biographical Sketches," and the second volume has the heading "Chapters I to XIV, Inclusive, Part One; and Chapters XV to XXV, Inclusive, Part Two." The title page of the second volume reads: El Monte From the Pioneer Days, History and Biographical Sketches compiled and written for the City of El Monte by the Works Progress Administration, Project N-5740. Supervisors: C.D. Maxon, Fred J. Brown, Lee Stoddard, Charles G. Mudd. A chart in Chapter XXIV documents the city's governing officers from 1912-1937
This collection consists of two typed manuscripts, both stamped "Triplicate" in the lower right-hand corner of the cover and with the heading "El Monte From the Pioneer Days." The first volume has the secondary heading "Biographical Sketches," and the second volume has the heading "Chapters I to XIV, Inclusive, Part One; and Chapters XV to XXV, Inclusive, Part Two." The title page of the second volume reads: El Monte From the Pioneer Days, History and Biographical Sketches compiled and written for the City of El Monte by the Works Progress Administration, Project N-5740. Supervisors: C.D. Maxon, Fred J. Brown, Lee Stoddard, Charles G. Mudd. A chart in Chapter XXIV documents the city's governing officers from 1912-1937
Founded in 1957, the Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry today represents, in the words of Victor Valle, "The gritty crossroads of the global trade revolution that is transforming Southern California factories into warehouses, and adjacent working class communities into economic and environmental sacrifice zones choking on cheap goods and carcinogenic diesel exhaust." City of Industry is a stunning exposé on the construction of corporate capitalist spaces. Valle investigated an untapped archive of Industry's built landscape, media coverage, and public records, including sealed FBI reports, to uncover a cascading series of scandals. A kaleidoscopic view of the corruption that resulted when local land owners, media barons, and railroads converged to build the city, this suspenseful narrative explores how new governmental technologies and engineering feats propelled the rationality of privatization using their property-owning servants as tools. Valle's tale of corporate greed begins with the city's founder James M. Stafford and ends with present day corporate heir, Edward Roski Jr., the nation's biggest industrial developerùco-owner of the L.A. Staples Arena and possible future owner of California's next NFL franchise. Not to be forgotten in Valle's captivating story are Latino working class communities living within Los Angeles's distribution corridors, who suffer wealth disparities and exposure to air pollution as a result of diesel-burning trucks, trains, and container ships that bring global trade to their very doorsteps. They are among the many victims of City of Industry.
East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives—stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars.
