Boyle Heights History Studios and Tours

Boyle Heights History Studios and Tours History museum and cultural center, offering history tours.

Boyle Heights History Studios is also the proud home to THE BOYLE HEIGHTS CHAVURAH - the grassroots Jewish fellowship of East Los Angeles; we are proud to host the last remaining Jewish congregation of our neighborhood.

12/13/2024

The remains of nearly 2,000 unclaimed individuals who died in L.A. County in 2021 were laid to rest at Los Angeles County Crematorium Cemetery in Boyle Heights Thursday morning. The […]

12/11/2024

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12/07/2024

The brother of former L.A. City Councilmember José Huizar was sentenced Friday morning to community service and ordered to pay a fine for his involvement in a widespread City Hall […]

12/06/2024

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12/04/2024

Join us for Pico Union Winter Fest 2024 on Saturday, December 7 at ! 🎉

We’re proud to support their community night market that will feature local vendors, delicious food, and live performances by talented local artists. This event is part of our ongoing effort to incubate rotating vendor markets in Pico Union, helping to boost the local economy and create opportunities for small businesses.

📅 Date: Saturday, December 7
📍 Location: Pico Union Project, 1153 Valencia St, LA, CA 90015
🕒 Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
✨ FREE Event - All are welcome!

Let’s come together to celebrate! See you there!

11/29/2024

Well done Pico Union Project! 🙌🏽

11/21/2024
10/12/2024
The film was then released on October 6, 1927 at the flagship Warner Bros. Theater in New York City, the opening was pla...
10/12/2024

The film was then released on October 6, 1927 at the flagship Warner Bros. Theater in New York City, the opening was planned to coincide with Yom Kippur, which the plot of this story largely revolves around.

It is this Yom Kippur – Kol Nidei theme which has made this a seasonal favorite during the High Holy Days.

Now it should be noted that Al Jolson was actually trained and coached in the Jewish cantoral musical style by none less than the great Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt himself, considered the greatest Jewish liturgical voice of all time. Cantor Rosenblatt was offered $100,000 by Warner Bros. to play the part of Jolson’s cantor father; a part which he turned down, because he felt that Kol Kidrei was too sacred for him to sing in this film.

Though he turned down the lucrative offer to actually sing Kol Nidrei for this Warner Bros. film, he did end up accepting another offer to sing this liturgy for a Los Angeles synagogue that year. In that year of 1927 Cantor Rosenblatt was hired to officiate the High Holy Day for Congregation Talmud Torah – The Breed Street Shul in Boyle Heights; being paid $5,000 for three days of performance, which is what most people worked two whole years to make.

In the cannon of Hollywood Jewish films, “The Jazz Singer” is among the most beloved and celebrated. And now that we are in the Jewish High Holy Day season, having just celebrated the Jewish near c…

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Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 12am - 10pm
Sunday 10am - 8pm

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On "Boyle Heights: Most Haunted" we swing by some infamous hospital sites such as the historic Santa Fe Railway Coastline Hospital - also known in its latter days as the Linda Vista Hospital. During its abandoned years It had been used for numerous hospital tv scenes (E.R., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc.) and films (Outbreak, End of Days, Pearl Harbor), as well as countless music videos including at least one by #TupacShakur in the well known yellow operating room. We will talk about the complicated truelife history of this historic building, and it's later use has a film site for over 60 hospital and horror films, and even a couple visits by the "Ghost Adventurers" which made this site notorious as on the most haunted sites in the world. Link to tickets in bio and at https://bit.ly/BarrioTours! Upcoming dates for Summer 2024 are June 8, July 13, and August 3.Shoutout to our neighbor and local small businesses owner @brujeriagirl for turning me on to this video some months ago! And happy birthday to all my #Gemini babies out there!#BoyleHeights #EastLosAngeles #EastLA #dtla #LosAngelesHistorty

81st Anniversary Zoot Suit Memorial Cruise
81st Anniversary Zoot Suit Memorial Cruise

This year we will be celebrating the 81st Anniversary Zoot Suit Riots Memorial Cruise, to kick off the second annual #ZootSuitHeritageWeek that became officially recognized by the City of Los Angeles just last year due to our collective advocacy. Join us for the cruise and for the festival at Mariachi Plaza on June 2, 2024! ! #BoyleHeights #EastLosAngeles #ElPuebloDeNuestaRienaDeLosAngeles Reposted from @ranflascarclubeastlosangeles Orale, Let’s take a trip without leaving town... Call to register. (323) 470-8426. “ IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW. “ “IF YOU DONT, JUST CALL.”

Lost Los Angeles: Evergreen Cemetery, Boyle Heights
Lost Los Angeles: Evergreen Cemetery, Boyle Heights

On “Lost L.A: Eternal City” with Nathan Masters and Professor Avila came out with me Shmuel Gonzales to feature our very own Evergreen Cemetery in #BoyleHeights, #EastLosAngeles, the oldest operating and first privately owned cemetery in #LosAngeles. There is such a rich history displayed here which reveals the diversity of Los Angeles, and specifically of the #Eastside One the funniest outtakes is at one point when Nathan Masters thanks me for using the term "Eastside" correctly, and not meaning Los Feliz. 😂 Credits: "Lost L.A: Eternal City" by PBS SoCal and KCET, Season 6 Episode 3". The full episode is also available YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jy-k_RML3o

Reposted from: @addyandthewolf That one time in 2020 @yungatita and I took a spooky tour with @boyleheightshistorystudios ( @barrioboychik). #BoyleHeights #EastLosAngeles

This week our exhibit "From Brooklyn Avenue to Cesar Chavez: Jewish Histories In Multiethnic Boyle Heights” turned 6-years-old, and our museum project turns 4-years old! We created the first ever stand alone history museum in East Los Angeles; without ever taking any grants, philanthropy money, big donor checks, corporate sponsorships, government funding or even COVID recovery money. Against all odds, opposition, and even violent attacks and assaults by hateful people; we have made possible what the useless, entitled, corrupt, selfish, narcissistic, poverty pimping and totally performative fake-progressives have been taking endless amounts of public money to achieve but have never actually achieved for our community. We build this and operated this entirely with grassroots support, and in doing so have proved them and all their excuses wrong. Not only do we have a lot to be proud of, but now we are even more thrilled to be engaging in our most ambitious project to date; to further allow our community to collectively reclaim our history from the grifters, vendidos and chusma who consider themselves the gatekeepers of our Boyle Heights heritage.

Pre-register online for vehicle entry into the Día de los Muertos Car Show on October 15th hosted by the Boyle Heights Community Market., Mothers of Boyle Heights, and Ranflas East Los Angeles Car Club. This is a special event featuring food, beverages, DJs, bands, dancing, and even a classic and kustoms car show. Roll in from 12noon to 3pm. Car and motorcycle exhibition from 3pm to midnight. Pre-register your vehicle today for a discount! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dia-de-los-muertos-car-show-in-boyle-heights-tickets-401763454307 Special thanks to our local sponsors and leaders: Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, Senator María Elena Durazo, and Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León of CD-14. Boyle Heights History Studios and Tours and Barrio Boychik are also proud to help make this event a success for the families of our neighborhood. #BoyleHeights #EastLosAngeles #EastLA #MariachiPlaza #diadelosmuertos #carshow #classiccars #kustomslosangeles

Pre-register online for vehicle entry into the Día de los Muertos Car Show on October 15th hosted by the Boyle Heights Community Market., Mothers of Boyle Heights, and Ranflas East Los Angeles Car Club. This is a special event featuring food, beverages, DJs, bands, dancing, and even a classic and kustoms car show. Roll in from 12noon to 3pm. Car and motorcycle exhibition from 3pm to midnight. Pre-register your vehicle today for a discount! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dia-de-los-muertos-car-show-in-boyle-heights-tickets-401763454307 Special thanks to our local sponsors and leaders: Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, Senator María Elena Durazo, and Councilmen Kevin de León of CD-14. Boyle Heights History Studios and Tours and Barrio Boychik are also proud to help help make this event a success for the families of our neighborhood. #BoyleHeights #EastLosAngeles #EastLA #MariachiPlaza #diadelosmuertos #carshow #classiccars #kustomslosangeles

Repost from @santiago_49_ and @chatoranflas ORALE ,FELIZIDADES ,JUAN CARLOS (GAR)...CON TO-DO RESPITE, DE PARTE DEL GATO, LA SHYGIRL, SANTIAGO, EL SILENCIOSO, GEO.GPS, BOLYE HEIGHTS HISTORY STUDIOS SHMUELGONZALES Y EL CHATO RANFLAS...BIENVENIDO ANUESTRA KLIKA ,CON ESTAPLAKA…DE.RANFLAS CAR CLUB LOSANGELES EAST L.A....C/s:.p/V:. @ranflascarclubeastlosangeles

Ranflas East Los Angeles Car Club here with Barrio Boychik to help us organize a fundraiser and local grassroots resistance to save Boyle Heights History Studios and Tours - our museum and cultural center as we are financially struggling for our survival. Help us save the first ever stand alone history museum in the history of East Los Angeles. Also on this day, together with local stakeholders on both sides of the Sixth Street Bridge we have also formed the Puente del Pueblo Coalition, to activate the classic and kustom car clubs to help maintain order and self patrol our celebrated viaduct and Whittier Blvd. https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-our-history-museum-in-boyle-heights #BoyleHeights #EastLosAngeles #EastLA #dtla #WorkingClassCultura #historymuseum #culturalcenter

The First Cars Crossing the New Sixth Street Bridge
The First Cars Crossing the New Sixth Street Bridge

The first cars crossing the New Sixth Street Viaduct Replacement were low riders and classic cars, and at the lead was the master of ceremonies, Los Angeles City Councilman from the 14th District, Kevin de León at the head of the lineup and operating the hydraulics, as he lead a procession of classic cars across this bridge for the first time riding into the sunset.

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Boyle Heights History Studios

We are more than just a community center and museum; we are a grassroots co-op of community partners dedicated to the history and storytelling of East Los Angeles. We ar a clearinghouse of storytelling with multiple studios for producing our shared stories through music, video broadcasting, podcasting, writing, as well as applied and performing arts. And we have done this all through the empowerment of storytelling. We have never received any funding through grants, government or NGOs, or philanthropists. As an under-served community with limited resources we weekly provide a cultural history tour which articulates the cultural heritage we are working to preserve here, and people donate through their tour ticket sales; that is the entire funding base for this most dynamic and thriving community center. We are grateful for the people who enable our storytelling through these virtual tour donations; generous people who make this history free and accessible for our struggling working-class community. However, due to the coronavirus we are unable to hold tours, making it difficult for us to sustain ourselves. We are having a hard time paying the rent for this 3000 square-foot community center while we are shuttered for the quarantine. We would be grateful if you would consider to make an donation as a patron to help us during this financial crisis. You may give via Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BarrioBoychik or Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2820140588597248883 We intend to not be destroyed or dismayed by this coronavirus crisis, but to come back out of this quarantine as determined as ever to maintain our cultural heritage. With your help we are confident that we get through this crisis, and will remain your cultural center and museum telling your oral history for years to come! Thank you! If you have any questions, you may contact our director @ [email protected]