Where we live – where we work – where we eat – where we play – where we worship.

A community is drawn together by the rhythms of life; and to love our neighbors is to learn about the spaces that we share and the history that we step into as we walk these streets together.

In this week’s installment of our ongoing Stories from the Project video series, East Los Angeleno historian Shmuel Gonzales of Barrio Boychik takes us on a walk, introducing the beginnings of the Pico Union neighborhood.