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Roberto Flores, co-founder of the Eastside Café, saw a potential solution to the housing crisis in the vacant state-owned homes of El Sereno. He draws on lessons from Indigenous communities in Chiapas to organize for community control and stable, dignified housing.
The Virgilioâs lion rug was similar to the one pictured. Both were mounted and preserved by the Jonas Brothers Zoological Art Studios of Yonkers, N.Y. â still one of the nationâs most experienced taxidermy specialists. PHOTO PROVIDED BY JIM SHULMAN Often when I write about childhood memories, the stories behind them reveal much more than I ever anticipate. One of these dates back to 1949 or 1950, and my first experience at preschool age seeing television. Our next-door neighbors on Holmes Road, Sophie and Gabe Virgilio, who owned the Eastside Caf...