- Post date
- 29 Apr 2017
- Caption
- Here are the Club Rock En Español Founders: Yvonne (Gómez) Drazan, Flora Rae Tapia & Alma Díaz. The Club Rock en Español (C.R.E.E.) was created in the late 1980s and connected youth across Latin America and the Latinas/os in Southern California and the U.S. “The Girls” eventually became concert producers and band managers, music tastemakers, and overall chingonas who continue to be BFFs.
In 1992 as the L.A. riots began, Yvonne watched the disturbances brewing in Florence and Normandie. It dawned on her that Alma was working in nearby Huntington Park at a building in Florence and Pacific. Yvonee reminisces about those tense days, “I saw that everything was starting to head towards Huntington Park so I called Alma at her work and I was like, are you okay? She was like I don't know, I'm stuck here I don't know what’s going to happen. So I told my dad I have to go get Alma. He was like ‘you’re not leaving this house!’ I was like ‘try and stop me I'm not leaving her.’ I got in my car and I drove all the way out to Huntington Park, I picked up Alma. She was living out by USC at the time and all the freeways had closed down so we had to drive through Vernon. we drove through the eye of the hurricane so I could get her home. We saw everything! There were fires on the buildings beside us. People were running over my car.!” Alma added that Yvonne in her quest to get her home was driving maniacally, “she was like [almost] plowing through people like ‘get the fuck out of my way!!!’ We got home just in time to find out that the building I worked in had burnt out to the ground.” Alma is, of course thankful for Yvonne’s valiant maneuvers during the LA Riot/Uprising. Even if Flora will always tease her about it: “she still owes us by the way and we still end up driving her all the time!!!” #rockangelino #rocklatino #rockenespañol #cree #clubrockenespanol #clubrockenespañol #losangeles #HuntingtonPark #1992 #LA1992 #1992LA #lariots #lauprising #SouthLA #southcentrallosangeles #rockarchivoLA
- Location
- Huntington Park, California
- Type
- photograph
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