Street of Memory (1937)

★★★★ · It's still there all right. · Pithecanthropus · 2012-01-10

Olvera Street is certainly still there, although it always was and is a tourist trap. La Golondrina, BTW is well worth the trouble of going there, but by local standards, its history of continuous operation back to 1930 makes it more historic than Olvera Street itself. Olvera's historicity is almost entirely fabricated, and most of the structures have little to do with Mexicans or with the founding of L.A. Until it was made over under the direction of socialite Christine Sterling in 1930, it was just a grimy alley. In 1920, Chaplin shot several scenes of "The Kid" there, it being well suited…

★★★ · Nazi Mexicans?? · Spuzz · 2005-06-27

An interesting tour around Olvera street in Los Angeles... Not too sure if it's still there or not. If it is, let's hope they don't have the stereotypes they have display in this film. The narrator is awfully strange making jokes somewhat at the expense of the Mexicans. Mind you, there is some lovely photography of the tourists down this street, and the music, while sometimes repetitious, is nice. This is sort of like a Mexican tourist trap, except you're outside of Mexico it looks like. As the reviewer below me has said, not too sure why one of the houses has a nazi symbol on it.