| Title: |
Joe Soto
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| Local code: |
OH-139
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Tempe Historical Museum. Research Library
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| Collection: |
Barrios Oral History Project
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| Description: |
In this interview, he talks about the Ruiz family, which came to the Tempe area in the early 1900s. He talks mostly of his grandfather, José María Ruiz (born 1877 in Pala, California), who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad and as a freighter during the construction of Roosevelt Dam. He also discusses his grandmother, Marina Ceballos Soto, his uncles, who also worked for the railroad, and family members who moved to California after World War II because of better work opportunities. Other topics discussed during the interview include social life, landmarks in and around the barrio, the demolition of the barrio in the 1950s, and Hispanic mutual aid societies, such as the Alianza Hispano Americana and the Sociedad Mutualista Porfirio Diaz.
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| Extent: |
21 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.tempe.gov/museum/oh139.htm
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1994 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Soto, Joe, 1937-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
5-Mar-1937
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Tempe, AZ; Arizona; United States; North America
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| Age at speaking: |
57
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| Document date: |
25-Jan-1994
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| Interviewer: |
Solliday, Scott
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| Locations discussed: |
Arizona; North America; Tempe, AZ; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Arizona; Family--History; Hispanic American families; Hispanic American neighborhoods; North America; Oral history; Tempe, AZ; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Barrios; Micke Mouse Town
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0022451-23782
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