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![Life of the Manong: Henry Hipolito in Portsmouth Square](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/8/1977Call Number: IH 051Producers: Al RoblesCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Manong Henry Hipolito talks with Al Robles about the old days in Manilatown. Henry speaks of the Manilatown area from Market to Broadway being the section symbolizing the common poor Filipino. Although the I-hotel area was run down during the interview (late 70s), it used to be a nice area bustling with streetcars and horse drawn wagons. When speaking of the area in the late 70s, the I-Hotel and its few old timers represent the last of Manilatown. Some of Henry's experiences of the old days were that there were no pinays in America till 1948 and local job discrimination forced him to travel to Alaska for seasonal fishing jobs. He reminisces about Pinoy town in Alaska and how he survived the depression. Ending the interview, Henry gives advice to new Filipino immigrants such as the importance of education, independence, poverty and discrimination reduction, and resist corruption.
![Simeon Amon Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/6/1977Call Number: IH 057Format: CDProducers: Al RoblesCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Simeon Amon talks about women and his life as a child in the islands. He explains social gatherings called "Taxi Dances". This was for lonely manongs who could dance with women for a small fee. Due to miscegenation laws, suitable Pinays of there age and generation didn't exist in the states. It also gave women an opportunity for extra income. Simeon said he attended many dances in the Stockton area and San Francisco. With many of these girls being white, some disapproved the events. A Filipino man dating a white woman resulted in him being shot and her being beat up. Simeon then goes into explaining the virtues of city pinays versus country pinays. The interview ends with him explaining his childhood life on a Luzon farm.
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