Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Where were you born?

© Jasmin Chang 2010

I stumbled upon the Echo Park Farmers' Market and met these women at a booth representing the Echo Park Time Bank.

Answer: (from left to right)
-El Salvador.
-Findlay, Ohio. It's a small town.
-New York City.

I ask what brought each of them to Los Angeles.
-I came here to LA when I was 6, but then we moved to the valley because of the gang violence in the city then, but I came back later because LA's fun. It's a magnet.
-We moved from Ohio to Denver to LA because my mom remarried and my stepfather got a job with the LA Philharmonic as a violinist. This was back in '81.
-I always wanted to come to LA. It was always something my mom would talk about, but we never came, so I always saw it as this place where I would eventually go.

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