El Mercado de Los Ángeles

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Coordinates: 34°02′13″N 118°11′38″W / 34.03701°N 118.19392°W / 34.03701; -118.19392
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El Mercado de Los Ángeles, sometimes referred to simply as El Mercadito,

Indiana Station
located two blocks east.

History

The market was built in 1968 as a multi-ethnic market.[2] On the former site of the Boyle Heights Lumber Company. In 1988, Pedro Rosado had a majority of shares became owner of the market. Rosado, however, later died of cancer in 2018 and ownership was given to Rosado's two daughters, son, and wife; Tony Rosado, son, plans to gentrify the market.[3]

The Third Floor and Restaurant

The third floor contains one restaurant named El Mercadito de Los Mariachis.[1] is themed in to three different restaurants representing different cities of Mexico that make up the one large restaurant.[4] Mariachi bands play on the restaurant's three stages, which are all built to different Latin themes.[3]

Monetary and cultural remittances at El Mercado

El Mercado de Los Angeles offers a variety of services that help send off monetary remittances to Latin America. The Mercado also provides travel and calling services that help customers participate in the formation of cultural remittances to Latin America.[4]

Monetary remittances at El Mercado

El Mercado also serves as an important site of cultural and monetary remittances between the United States and

hometown associations.[6]

Cultural remittances at El Mercado

The Mercado de Los Angeles also facilitates opportunities to create

México or Latin America. The mercado becomes a transculturated site that participates in cultural remittance when it facilitates the physical circular migration of migrants returning to their home country.[8]
Migrants returning home bring cultural remittances to the land that they left, and El Mercado de Los Angeles is an important site of this cultural remittance process in Los Angeles.

References

  1. ^ a b Marrero, Pilar (2016-09-13). "Boyle Heights' El "Mercadito", Still Mexican to the Core". KCET. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  2. ^ "El Mercado | Los Angeles Conservancy". www.laconservancy.org. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  3. ^ a b "Best Mariachi Restaurant: El Mercadito Mariachi Restaurant | Best of L.A. 2013: Your Key to the City". L.A. Weekly. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. ^ a b "Directory of El Mercado de Los Angeles". El Mercado de Los Angeles. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Directory of El Mercado de Los Angeles". El Mercado de Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 29 May 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  6. S2CID 146443691
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  7. ^ "Directory of El Mercado de Los Angeles". El Mercado de Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 29 May 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  8. ISBN 978-0415952613
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34°02′13″N 118°11′38″W / 34.03701°N 118.19392°W / 34.03701; -118.19392

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