Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...separate measure, the New York exchange announced plans for an "express lane" to expedite the trades of individual investors on heavy selling days. The new proposals will require approval by the Government's securities and futures regulators...
Gonzalez found the perfect canvas: a gray concrete-block wall just off Cheesbrough's Lane in the parking lot of El Mercado, a Hispanic gathering place for shopping, food stalls and mariachi bands. Olmos grew up in a house just down the street. Gonzalez and fellow Muralists Tony Ramirez and Xavier Quijas got to work with their acrylic paints. Then Photographer Harry Benson captured the image that appears on the cover...
...murals in 1963. "We wanted to help instill pride," says Gonzalez. "Eddie Olmos is the perfect example. He grew up in the barrio and became somebody. That gives inspiration to kids who might otherwise give up." And if they require further inspiration, they need only stroll down Cheesbrough's Lane...
...roots of that confidence lie just a few miles from the gates of Garfield High, in the Boyle Heights section of East Los Angeles. "Boyle Heights was the Ellis Island of the West Coast," says Olmos, "and I thought that was what the world was like. On our small lane we had a Hispanic family with 13 kids, Native Americans, Koreans, Chinese, Mexicans, Russians. It was a fantastic environment...
Olmos, who grew up with an extended family in a small house on Cheesbrough's Lane, still has fond memories of life in the barrio. During a visit to his old neighborhood, he pauses before a vacant lot bordered by a garbage dumper and two dilapidated cars. "Coming back really tore me up," he says. He would like to turn his great grandparents' old wood-frame house into a museum "not out of ego, but to show kids that starting from here, they can go anywhere they want." Yet it took him a while to find his own path. When...