Oral Histories
INTERVIEWEES
Click on the names below to be watch or listen to their oral histories.
Other interviews not within this project but relevant to the Barrios are at the bottom of the page.
Kirsten Aase Gonzalez
Tony Baltierra
Lorraine Campos and Robert Salazar
Corinne Dearborn
Florence Garcia
Hector Gonzalez
Kito Gutierrez
Mary Gutierrez Ruiz and Nellie Gutierrez Villanueva
Randy Hernandez
Marciano Martinez
Richard Martinez
Marilyn Noble
Delia Sevilla Warrior
Mario Serna
Al Villanueva
Tony Baltierra
First Communion at the Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church (No Date).
A Catholic Rosary shared by Tony.
Interviewer Carina Arias. Filmed on March 11th, 2026.
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Lorraine Campos and Robert Salazar
Lorraine Campos and Robert Salazar with Interviewer Chelsea Liu
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Corinne Dearborn
Hector Gonzalez
Randy Hernandez
Other Interviews
Interviews containing lived experiences of Mexican-American communities in the East and West Barrios and beyond that can be found elsewhere online:
Interview by Ginger Elliott, May 1990
Interview by Ginger Elliot, June 1992
Interview by Enid Douglass, October 1992
Interview by Enid Douglass, October 1992
Interview by Ginger Elliot, October 1992
Interview by Ginger Elliot, February 1997
Interview by Ginger Elliot, February 1997
Interview by Ginger Elliot, May 2003
A series of mini interviews conducted at Claremont’s Fourth of July Celebration in 1994 and 1995 at Memorial Park.
Interviewees:
[Part 1] Ann Seltzer, Doug McKenzie, Jesse Shaner, John Bobo, Suzanne Christian, William Smith, Nicholas Polos, Marcy Kurtz, and Caroline Beatty.
[Part 2] Jan Carre, Sophie Williams, Phil Ross, and John Dominguez
[Part 3] John Dominguez, Margo Estes, Louise Giffin, Alice Giffin, and Karen Stanley
[Part 4] George Nunez, Joan Bunte, Troy Donovan, Lisa Hamilton, Kathy Ledgerwood, Phoebe Deville, and Diana Stenger