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But Neil Armstrong had a home that he went back to, whereas for you, orphaned as a child, there was no home or family waiting for you in Escuintla, Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You clipped the front page of the Time magazine cover with Neil standing next to the words “Man on the Moon.” It stayed pinned on the wall by your desk in our home in Imperial Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-800x575.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-960x690.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-520x374.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Monroy in the redwood forest, Avenue of the Giants, circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Your desert dreams swelled, even in drought years. They overflowed with a hope for cultural survival and language acquisition because, like Neil Armstrong, you had to survive on a foreign moon that neither saw you nor understood your accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You died when I was very young, but I still hear your American dream in the lingering bellow of the foghorn when I stand beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The first time I heard that foghorn was on one of our road trips. You pulled over at the last exit for the bridge, our old gray van blending into a mist so thick we could barely see a few yards ahead. I couldn’t believe there was a city this cold in summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-960x691.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-375x270.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-520x374.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Monroy’s older siblings and parents at the Redwood Chandelier Tree, circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We’d driven 500 miles and left the desert of Imperial Valley for a short vacation to escape the 120-degree heat. We crossed miles of desert, through layers of marine smells at the Salton Sea. We joined the long trails of cars filling the L.A. freeways like ants pouring into an anthill, until finally we reached the cliff sides of Northern California. Their wind-carved cypresses and old redwood trees made me think of fairy-tale forests and dragons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Only now that I’m a mother do I see how these road trips were not just family vacations to you. They were expressions of hunger to find your American dream. Your dream was taller than the redwoods, and not sated by simply having a family, an old van and a job as a printer at the Mendocino Beacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-520x351.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah’s father, Enrique Monroy, working on an old printing press, at the Mendocino Beacon, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I now live in San Francisco — its skyline often ebbing and flowing from view beneath the white cloak of fog. Here, I realize my own version of the American dream by translating the dreams of immigrants into ways I can advocate for them as an attorney. I also realize it by watching my son grow up speaking and reading both English and Spanish, loving the written word as deeply as you and I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Sarah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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They overflowed with a hope for cultural survival and language acquisition because, like Neil Armstrong, you had to survive on a foreign moon that neither saw you nor understood your accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You died when I was very young, but I still hear your American dream in the lingering bellow of the foghorn when I stand beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The first time I heard that foghorn was on one of our road trips. You pulled over at the last exit for the bridge, our old gray van blending into a mist so thick we could barely see a few yards ahead. 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We crossed miles of desert, through layers of marine smells at the Salton Sea. We joined the long trails of cars filling the L.A. freeways like ants pouring into an anthill, until finally we reached the cliff sides of Northern California. Their wind-carved cypresses and old redwood trees made me think of fairy-tale forests and dragons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Only now that I’m a mother do I see how these road trips were not just family vacations to you. They were expressions of hunger to find your American dream. 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"content": "\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to write a short letter to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. 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You came with your portable typewriter and a dream of writing the next great American novel. The year after, your father, who you called 'Pop,' used his savings to buy a train ticket from Coney Island to L.A. Pop showed up one morning at your apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard, carrying his canvas bag of bricklayers’ tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">He slept on the couch while you worked late into the night at your typing table in the corner of the room. Pop would get up early and shine his tools—his hammer, his chisel, his trowels. Tool bag in hand, he’d walk from job site to job site. But people didn’t build with bricks in earthquake country. Every afternoon Pop trudged back to the cramped little apartment, dejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 523px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11694764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut.jpg 523w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-160x184.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-240x275.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-375x430.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-520x597.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai's grandfather, Samuel Moses, a Romanian immigrant, worked as a bricklayer in New York City, but couldn’t find a job when he came to Los Angeles in the 1950s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The two of you made uneasy roommates. Your dream was to be a published novelist, the next Joseph Heller, and you believed that California, with its limitless horizons and golden light, would make your dream a reality. Pop just wanted a job doing honest labor. You both shared the California dream of opportunity and success. So the two of you came west with the hopes of building a better life; yours with words, Pop’s with brick and mortar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never did achieve the literary recognition you craved. But you did publish one short story in a literary journal. The title was, “Pop Comes To California,” and it was your masterpiece. I never knew Pop, this grandfather who died long before I was born. But I met him in the pages of your story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 574px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11694765 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut.jpg 574w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-160x197.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-240x295.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-375x461.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-520x639.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first page of “Pop Comes To California,” published in July 1960 in the literary publication, “Mainstream” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To me, the California dream represents freedom—the freedom to be \"the hero of my own life,\" as you liked to say, quoting Dickens. After a lifetime in the Golden State, I’m on the verge of leaving, heading north to Oregon where I hope to write a novel of my own. The price of living in California has risen a bit too high. I still believe in the California dream. I’m just going to look for it somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Tai\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 454px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11694869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut.jpg 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-240x340.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-375x531.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai Moses and her father, Morris Moses, in Marina del Rey, California, 1999. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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You came with your portable typewriter and a dream of writing the next great American novel. The year after, your father, who you called 'Pop,' used his savings to buy a train ticket from Coney Island to L.A. Pop showed up one morning at your apartment on Crenshaw Boulevard, carrying his canvas bag of bricklayers’ tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">He slept on the couch while you worked late into the night at your typing table in the corner of the room. Pop would get up early and shine his tools—his hammer, his chisel, his trowels. Tool bag in hand, he’d walk from job site to job site. But people didn’t build with bricks in earthquake country. Every afternoon Pop trudged back to the cramped little apartment, dejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 523px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11694764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut.jpg 523w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-160x184.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-240x275.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-375x430.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32962_3_Pop-in-NYC-qut-520x597.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai's grandfather, Samuel Moses, a Romanian immigrant, worked as a bricklayer in New York City, but couldn’t find a job when he came to Los Angeles in the 1950s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The two of you made uneasy roommates. Your dream was to be a published novelist, the next Joseph Heller, and you believed that California, with its limitless horizons and golden light, would make your dream a reality. Pop just wanted a job doing honest labor. You both shared the California dream of opportunity and success. So the two of you came west with the hopes of building a better life; yours with words, Pop’s with brick and mortar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never did achieve the literary recognition you craved. But you did publish one short story in a literary journal. The title was, “Pop Comes To California,” and it was your masterpiece. I never knew Pop, this grandfather who died long before I was born. But I met him in the pages of your story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 574px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11694765 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut.jpg 574w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-160x197.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-240x295.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-375x461.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32963_5_Mainstream_story-qut-520x639.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first page of “Pop Comes To California,” published in July 1960 in the literary publication, “Mainstream” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To me, the California dream represents freedom—the freedom to be \"the hero of my own life,\" as you liked to say, quoting Dickens. After a lifetime in the Golden State, I’m on the verge of leaving, heading north to Oregon where I hope to write a novel of my own. The price of living in California has risen a bit too high. I still believe in the California dream. I’m just going to look for it somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Tai\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 454px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11694869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut.jpg 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-240x340.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32972_MM_TM-qut-375x531.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tai Moses and her father, Morris Moses, in Marina del Rey, California, 1999. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Moses)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For our series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">“Letters To My California Dreamer,”\u003c/a> we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003cbr>\nWhat happened to it?\u003cbr>\nIs that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Sonia Prasad Quesada. She has lots of immigrant roots in her family: her dad is from India, her mom is Japanese-American, and she's married to a Filipino-American. This is a letter to her Japanese grandfather:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Ojiichan (Grandfather),\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">In 1929, you embarked on a journey that promised economic opportunity in America. You were just 19 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You left the family farm in Fukuoka, Japan in hopes of getting a higher education, and someday working in an office. But the Immigration Act of 1924 heavily restricted Japanese immigration into the United States. So, upon arrival in San Francisco, immigration officials ushered you onto a train bound for Mexico, where you had bought 10 acres for $1,000. But the deal was a hoax and you had been swindled. So, you stayed in Mexico and labored on a fishing boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692619\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11692619 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-800x777.jpg\" alt=\"Sonia’s grandparents Toshiko Nakamura (L) and Naoki (R), in their San Francisco apartment on Union St, 1937.\" width=\"800\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-800x777.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-160x155.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-1020x990.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-1200x1165.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-1180x1146.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-960x932.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-240x233.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-375x364.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-520x505.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/AtTheTable-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonia’s grandparents Toshiko Nakamura (L) and Naoki (R), in their San Francisco apartment on Union Street in 1937. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonia Prasad Quesada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Later you located a family friend in California, and after a perilous border crossing made your way back to San Francisco. There you met, courted and married my grandmother. The two of you settled into a small apartment on Union Street above your newly opened dry cleaning business. The California Dream was blossoming in ways you never imagined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 dismantled your life and shattered your dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Within three months, you, your wife and son were herded into internment camps, along with 120,000 other people of Japanese descent. Like your wife and son, two-thirds of them were American citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">After three years of enduring squalid conditions, sweltering heat and killing frost at Topaz -- called “the Jewel of the Desert” -- you and your family were finally released from that dusty desert prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692627\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11692627\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Apartment500.jpg\" alt=\"Sonia’s grandparents Toshiko Nakamura (L) and Naoki (R), in their San Francisco apartment on Union St, 1937.\" width=\"500\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Apartment500.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Apartment500-160x191.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Apartment500-240x287.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/Apartment500-375x449.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonia’s grandparents Toshiko Nakamura (L) and Naoki (R), in their San Francisco apartment on Union St, 1937. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonia Prasad Quesada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You then ventured to Chicago to find a job. Through hard work, you were able to buy a business and a house. In 1961 you returned to California and settled in Palo Alto, where Obaachan, my grandmother, now 101 years old, still lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I miss you, Ojiichan. Although you never realized your dreams of getting a college education or coveted office job, your hard work and commitment to family paved the way for your descendants to realize our dreams. Many of us are still here in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We’ve forged careers in government and military service, business, technology, journalism, academia, and pastoral ministry - to name a handful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You’d be proud. But more importantly, your quiet strength and kindness still characterize three generations of family that have come after you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love, Sonia\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. Fill out the form \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\">subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Friday, Aug. 17 3:55 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nWhat was their California Dream?\u003cbr>\nWhat happened to it?\u003cbr>\nIs that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's a letter from Tiffany Eng to her great great great grandparents:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To my great great great grandparents,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wish I knew when you came to California. And how you two managed to make it all the way from China to North San Juan in the Sierra foothills sometime in the mid-1800s. Did you come for work? Business? Gold?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only bits of your story have been passed down to us. We know you both lived in Gold Country during a period of growing resentment and hatred toward the Chinese. Family lore says you both died in a fire, your lives and California Dream tragically cut short. Were you murdered?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your young daughter Jennie Noy, born in North San Juan in 1867, survived. Did you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11684045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-1020x832.jpg\" alt=\"Jennie Noy, fifth from left and dressed in black, and her descendants in the 1950s.\" width=\"640\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-1020x832.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-800x653.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-1200x979.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-1180x962.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-960x783.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-240x196.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-375x306.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-520x424.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennie Noy, fifth from left and dressed in black, and her descendants in the 1950s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tiffany Eng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’re told she was found orphaned and crying by the ashes of the fire after having lost you, her only family. Thankfully, she was raised by another couple in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They bound her feet and married her off to an older merchant from China at the age of 16 in 1883. It was the first Chinese wedding in Marysville and quite the elaborate celebration, according to the local newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11684052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32096_alt_770-1020x1442.jpg\" alt=\"The Marysville Daily Appeal featured an article about Jennie Noy's wedding in 1883.\" width=\"640\" height=\"905\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marysville Daily Appeal featured an article about Jennie Noy's wedding in 1883. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tiffany Eng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennie’s family eventually settled in Oakland Chinatown after surviving the quake and fires in San Francisco Chinatown in 1906. Since then, six generations have grown up and grown old here, primarily in and around Oakland. Each generation has built on the hardships, opportunities and successes of the previous generation. Along the way, we’ve done our best to give back to this country and the communities where our roots have grown deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We may never know your names, but I see your reflection in our large extended family. For starters, it may come as no surprise to know we’re still keeping up our reputation for hosting big celebrations! And I imagine our pursuit of adventure and our penchant for breaking down barriers may have in part, come from you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11684037 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-800x633.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-1020x808.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-960x760.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-375x297.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennie Noy and her family during Christmas time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tiffany Eng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’d probably be amazed to know that my two young daughters attend a public Chinese immersion school in Oakland. Someday soon, my husband and I will take them to visit China, to show them the the land where your journey began over 150 years ago. I can’t wait!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you for coming to Gum Saan, or Gold Mountain, to seek out a better life and establish our family here in the Golden State. We will always remember your sacrifices and honor your memories as we fulfill your California dreams by following ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your great great great granddaughter,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Eng\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 493px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11684046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-800x914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-800x914.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-160x183.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-1020x1165.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-1050x1200.jpg 1050w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-1180x1348.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-960x1097.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-240x274.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-375x428.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-520x594.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut.jpg 1908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiffany, farthest on the right, and four generations of the Eng family in Oakland's Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tiffany Eng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Did you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11684045\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-1020x832.jpg\" alt=\"Jennie Noy, fifth from left and dressed in black, and her descendants in the 1950s.\" width=\"640\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-1020x832.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-800x653.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-1200x979.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-1180x962.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-960x783.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-240x196.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-375x306.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32097_resturant-qut-520x424.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennie Noy, fifth from left and dressed in black, and her descendants in the 1950s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tiffany Eng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We’re told she was found orphaned and crying by the ashes of the fire after having lost you, her only family. Thankfully, she was raised by another couple in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They bound her feet and married her off to an older merchant from China at the age of 16 in 1883. It was the first Chinese wedding in Marysville and quite the elaborate celebration, according to the local newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11684052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32096_alt_770-1020x1442.jpg\" alt=\"The Marysville Daily Appeal featured an article about Jennie Noy's wedding in 1883.\" width=\"640\" height=\"905\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marysville Daily Appeal featured an article about Jennie Noy's wedding in 1883. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tiffany Eng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennie’s family eventually settled in Oakland Chinatown after surviving the quake and fires in San Francisco Chinatown in 1906. Since then, six generations have grown up and grown old here, primarily in and around Oakland. Each generation has built on the hardships, opportunities and successes of the previous generation. Along the way, we’ve done our best to give back to this country and the communities where our roots have grown deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We may never know your names, but I see your reflection in our large extended family. For starters, it may come as no surprise to know we’re still keeping up our reputation for hosting big celebrations! And I imagine our pursuit of adventure and our penchant for breaking down barriers may have in part, come from you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11684037 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-800x633.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-1020x808.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-960x760.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-375x297.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32099_Xmas-qut-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennie Noy and her family during Christmas time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tiffany Eng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’d probably be amazed to know that my two young daughters attend a public Chinese immersion school in Oakland. Someday soon, my husband and I will take them to visit China, to show them the the land where your journey began over 150 years ago. I can’t wait!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you for coming to Gum Saan, or Gold Mountain, to seek out a better life and establish our family here in the Golden State. We will always remember your sacrifices and honor your memories as we fulfill your California dreams by following ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your great great great granddaughter,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Eng\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 493px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11684046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-800x914.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-800x914.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-160x183.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-1020x1165.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-1050x1200.jpg 1050w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-1180x1348.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-960x1097.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-240x274.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-375x428.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut-520x594.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS32098_tiffany-eng-photo-qut.jpg 1908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiffany, farthest on the right, and four generations of the Eng family in Oakland's Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tiffany Eng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. 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No future, no chance to rise above your circumstances, you wanted more for your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you were only seventeen, you heard that some cousins of yours left to go up north and now had better lives. One of these cousins told you that maybe if you went, you could stay with an uncle. You wanted to go but you were scared. But you were more afraid to stay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How you would even get there? You had no idea. You didn’t know English. 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They were expecting you to marry a farmer and have a family, as all women did there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You scraped together all the money you could and borrowed money from your friends, and then you were off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You made it to Tijuana and got a hold of a human smuggler -- a \u003cem>coyote\u003c/em>. He hid you in the trunk of his car and drove you across the border, dropping you off at a bus station in San Diego. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you finally got to your uncle’s house in San Francisco, he helped you find a job in housekeeping at a hotel in Oakland. You worked brutal, twelve-hour days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this new land, you were mistreated, looked down on, made to feel worthless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although you suffered, you had faith that this would lead to a better life. You remained in a land that treated you as a second-class citizen. You could have gone home and brought all of this to an end. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Felicia A. Elizondo to the LGBT Community of the World:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear LGBT Community of the World,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">My California dream came true when I found out that I wasn’t the only queer in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-800x1078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-800x1078.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1020x1375.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-890x1200.jpg 890w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1920x2588.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-960x1294.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-240x324.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-375x506.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-520x701.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia (then Felipe) Elizondo at 6 years old in San Angelo, Texas. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I came to the Tenderloin in San Francisco when I was in high school in 1962-1963. I found a world that I never knew existed growing up in San Angelo, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The Tenderloin was the Gay Mecca in the 1960s. People came here to start a new life, a new identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We were \u003cem>jotos\u003c/em>, sissies, queens, queers, lesbians, male hustlers, female impersonators, intersex. We were lost souls trying to understand what future was in store for us. We were out when being queer was against the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To survive we had to turn to prostitution, sell drugs, clip tricks (robbing them) when we were desperate — to buy food and pay rent. If we didn’t have money, then we were on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Compton’s Cafeteria was the center of the universe for us. It was the place to unite with each other. To make sure some of us had made it through the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-800x894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-800x894.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-160x179.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1020x1140.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1074x1200.jpg 1074w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1920x2145.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1180x1319.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-960x1073.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-240x268.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-375x419.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia (then Felipe) Elizondo on the Coronado Naval Base, 1965. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">What changed my life was when I went to see the movie, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Christine Jorgensen Story” \u003c/a>about\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jorgensen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christine Jorgensen. \u003c/a>She had been in the Army, and had the first sex change in 1951.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I finally realized that this is who I am. I didn’t know how I was going to get there, but where there is a will, there is a way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I went from a little boy to transforming myself to the woman I am today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677755\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia’s portrait was used on promotional materials for the 2013 Trans March in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of TransMarch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I am now one of the organizers of a group of community members that started to make sure our gay history would never be forgotten. We got a plaque put up on Taylor Street to commemorate the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835520/a-new-generation-gathers-strength-from-the-courageous-queens-of-the-comptons-cafeteria-riot%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\u003c/a>, which happened three years before Stonewall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11676023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-800x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-800x704.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-160x141.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1020x898.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1200x1056.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1180x1038.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-960x845.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-240x211.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-375x330.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-520x458.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This plaque commemorates the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, in which transgender women and gay men fought against police brutality. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons: Gaylesf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Please don’t forget all who came before you. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Felicia A. Elizondo to the LGBT Community of the World:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear LGBT Community of the World,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">My California dream came true when I found out that I wasn’t the only queer in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-800x1078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-800x1078.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1020x1375.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-890x1200.jpg 890w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1920x2588.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-1180x1591.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-960x1294.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-240x324.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-375x506.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31628_alt_761-1-520x701.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia (then Felipe) Elizondo at 6 years old in San Angelo, Texas. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I came to the Tenderloin in San Francisco when I was in high school in 1962-1963. I found a world that I never knew existed growing up in San Angelo, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The Tenderloin was the Gay Mecca in the 1960s. People came here to start a new life, a new identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We were \u003cem>jotos\u003c/em>, sissies, queens, queers, lesbians, male hustlers, female impersonators, intersex. We were lost souls trying to understand what future was in store for us. We were out when being queer was against the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To survive we had to turn to prostitution, sell drugs, clip tricks (robbing them) when we were desperate — to buy food and pay rent. If we didn’t have money, then we were on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Compton’s Cafeteria was the center of the universe for us. It was the place to unite with each other. To make sure some of us had made it through the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-800x894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-800x894.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-160x179.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1020x1140.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1074x1200.jpg 1074w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1920x2145.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-1180x1319.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-960x1073.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-240x268.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-375x419.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31632_alt_758-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia (then Felipe) Elizondo on the Coronado Naval Base, 1965. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Felicia Elizondo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">What changed my life was when I went to see the movie, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“The Christine Jorgensen Story” \u003c/a>about\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065549/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Jorgensen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christine Jorgensen. \u003c/a>She had been in the Army, and had the first sex change in 1951.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I finally realized that this is who I am. I didn’t know how I was going to get there, but where there is a will, there is a way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I went from a little boy to transforming myself to the woman I am today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677755\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31633_felicia_en-qut.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia’s portrait was used on promotional materials for the 2013 Trans March in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of TransMarch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I am now one of the organizers of a group of community members that started to make sure our gay history would never be forgotten. We got a plaque put up on Taylor Street to commemorate the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13835520/a-new-generation-gathers-strength-from-the-courageous-queens-of-the-comptons-cafeteria-riot%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\u003c/a>, which happened three years before Stonewall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11676023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11676023\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-800x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-800x704.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-160x141.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1020x898.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1200x1056.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-1180x1038.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-960x845.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-240x211.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-375x330.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut-520x458.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31519_Plaque_commemorating_Comptons_Cafeteria_riot-qut.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This plaque commemorates the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, in which transgender women and gay men fought against police brutality. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons: Gaylesf)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Please don’t forget all who came before you. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letters To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from Sandra Barocio, to her brother, Humberto:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To My Big Brother Humberto,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">It’s been a long time since we spoke face to face. Fifty-two years have gone by. My gratefulness to you is long overdue. I don’t believe any of us have truly thanked you or recognized your unselfish sacrifice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I remember you poking me with your elbow; to wake up. You whispered, “We’re in California. 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You never complained about the four-day journey. You asked me to tell you stories while you drove at night to avoid the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">“Look at all the fields to be harvested,” Papá pointed out. Signs announcing small towns: Soledad, Gonzales, Chualar and finally Salinas. You took the Main Street exit and drove slowly through town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">It was you who spotted the tall eucalyptus trees at the end of Main Street. You made us feel like we were simply going to have a picnic. We enjoyed sitting with you under those trees. You told us funny stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Night was coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You ordered us to get in the station wagon and to lock the doors. Papá asked you to guard us through the night. Mamá gave you a blanket and you laid it on the dirt, under a tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The next morning, you drove us to the unemployment office. There were multitudes of families that looked just like us. Your persistence and tenacity made us different. I remember you going car to car in the parking lot asking, begging, for possible work and shelter. You said, “I will not have my family sleeping under a tree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11674659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 704px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11674659 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut.jpg 704w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut-160x157.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut-240x235.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut-375x368.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut-520x510.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31428_Screenshot-2018-06-13-15.07.34-qut-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Barocio at age 14, at the Harben Farms labor camp trailers, north of Gonzales, California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">It’s been a long time since we spoke face to face. Fifty-two years have gone by. My gratefulness to you is long overdue. I don’t believe any of us have truly thanked you or recognized your unselfish sacrifice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I remember you poking me with your elbow; to wake up. You whispered, “We’re in California. 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You never complained about the four-day journey. You asked me to tell you stories while you drove at night to avoid the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">“Look at all the fields to be harvested,” Papá pointed out. Signs announcing small towns: Soledad, Gonzales, Chualar and finally Salinas. You took the Main Street exit and drove slowly through town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">It was you who spotted the tall eucalyptus trees at the end of Main Street. You made us feel like we were simply going to have a picnic. We enjoyed sitting with you under those trees. You told us funny stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Night was coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You ordered us to get in the station wagon and to lock the doors. Papá asked you to guard us through the night. 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Now, my only son is graduating from Berkeley High this week to head to my alma mater UCSC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11673151 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31295_IMG_9541-qut-e1528320702981.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Evans and her son Kyle Troll on the day of his high school graduation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amber Evans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">My house, bought as I started grad school at UC Berkeley, is paid off, and unlike so many in the Bay Area, we feel secure. But much of my extended family have moved out of California, sighting the crippling cost of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Also mom, you are now showing signs of dementia, and there is nothing more dream-crushing than facing the loss of memory. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Sarah Stroe, a second-generation San Francisco native, to her grandparents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">To my grandparents, all of them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I don’t know if you had a California dream, but I know you had dreamt of a place where dreams were safe to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">All my grandparents immigrated from Europe after World War II to South America, fleeing the discrimination they faced as Jews. They settled in countries where they could get visas and start new lives in industries they had never known, learning a new language, climate and culture, and constantly striving for more, or at least different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11671989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-1-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Stroe’s maternal grandparents, Leo and Anne Hills, in front of their San Francisco home. \u003ccite>(Stroe Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">They made their way to California, and they took opportunities that were presented: one grandfather worked as a tailor in San Francisco, eventually opening an art gallery. My other grandfather re-completed his medical training and opened a doctor’s office in South Central Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">They raised their children to both appreciate their roots and absorb their new homes. When my parents met, they were brought together in part by their similarities, grounded in history that was shared and known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I was raised in a Jewish household with a blend of cultural particularities: salsa in our matzo ball soup at Passover Seder, a mixture of Spanish and Yiddish peppering family conversation, an entire avocado as an after-school snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11671990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-1020x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-1920x1441.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-960x721.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-375x282.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Stroe-Photo-2.jpg 2046w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Stroe with her parents, husband and brother at her parents’ house in Inverness.. \u003ccite>(Stroe Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I feel California in my blood and in my bones. I work for the city of San Francisco, and I am proud every day to serve some of the most vulnerable Californians as a social worker in a county hospital. My California dream is a California that embraces its history as a safe haven for immigrants, that loves and celebrates difference and takes pride in the ever-changing and mixing landscape of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Sarah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/californiadreamletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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My other grandfather re-completed his medical training and opened a doctor’s office in South Central Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">They raised their children to both appreciate their roots and absorb their new homes. 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