El Pino (The Pine Tree)
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El Pino is a natural landmark of the East Los Angeles
, sitting in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, near the East Cesar E Chavez avenue (34° 2' 25.47" N 118° 11' 35.23" W).
The tree is in the former property of Mr. Okuno, a Japanese dentist and intern in a WWII detention camp that, after receiving the land as a gift from an Anglo lady his wife worked with, rebuilt his business and amassed a huge library and, after retiring, used to take long strolls around East Los Angeles, greeting everyone and amusing the children with storytelling.
Mr. Okono is listed in the California Who's Who.
The El Pino is extensively featured in the 1993 Taylor Hackford
movie Blood In Blood Out
and people in the East Los Angeles consider the tree a living monument of the area multifaceted ethnical background.
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, sitting in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, near the East Cesar E Chavez avenue (34° 2' 25.47" N 118° 11' 35.23" W).
The tree is in the former property of Mr. Okuno, a Japanese dentist and intern in a WWII detention camp that, after receiving the land as a gift from an Anglo lady his wife worked with, rebuilt his business and amassed a huge library and, after retiring, used to take long strolls around East Los Angeles, greeting everyone and amusing the children with storytelling.
Mr. Okono is listed in the California Who's Who.
The El Pino is extensively featured in the 1993 Taylor Hackford
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movie Blood In Blood Out
Blood in Blood out
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and people in the East Los Angeles consider the tree a living monument of the area multifaceted ethnical background.