https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/files/original/c8b8ecc8b94e966f6e3c1e0d1de320d0.jpeg 6eaf5cbddaad57272a8dacd1773de6a7 https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/files/original/f1fbd5355f8640bedf42b60451fdaab7.jpeg 9bf392f6256e97c54f8c9fb82189b17b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mariano Family Collection Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bobby Mariano Description An account of the resource Marcelino "Bob" Mariano was born in 1910 in the municipality of Camiling, in the province of Tarlac, in the Philippines. He was the oldest of three brothers and had a contentious relationship with his father. At fifteen, Marcelino left the Philippines to work on a sugarcane plantation on the island of Hawai‘i. Upon his arrival, he changed his last name to “Mariano,” which was his mother’s maiden name. Sometime in the 1930s, Marcelino moved to Los Angeles where he became a short-order cook at an unknown diner. He worked in Los Angeles until 1942 when he was drafted into the First Filipino Infantry Regiment. He was stationed in Fort Ord, California. During a Halloween party at Fort Ord, Marcelino met Hazel Maxine Bickel who he later married in Nogales, Arizona. Shortly after, Marcelino was deployed to New Guinea and later to the Philippines. During his time abroad, Hazel gave birth to their son, Bobby Mariano, in El Centro, California in 1944. When Marcelino returned to California his son was seventeen months old. Hazel was born on July 18, 1923, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Her father was originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Her family moved first to Stockton, California, and later resettled in Watsonville, California to escape the conditions of the Dust Bowl. She and her parents worked in agriculture primarily in the canning industry. Hazel’s parents purchased a property with two houses in Watsonville, California where the Mariano’s lived when Marcelino completed his service. Marcelino returned to working in the fields following the seasonal crop harvest. He initially worked in packing and loading and then eventually became a foreman. Hazel left the canneries and worked in healthcare at a senior nursing home. The Mariano Family Collection was contributed to Watsonville is in the Heart in 2022 by Marcelino and Hazel Mariano's son, Bobby Mariano. The collection contains three items, two photographs, and an oral history interview with Bobby. In the interview, Bobby his father's migrant labor, his parents' interracial marriage, and his perceptions of Watsonville as a multicultural community. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "The Beginning" on Bridge St. Watsonville, CA Description An account of the resource A black and white photograph of Hazel Bickel and Bob Mariano’s on their first date. They are standing in front of a car with Buddy the dog, Bobby Mariano’s Aunt’s dog. The dog was from Oklahoma like Hazel's family. The photograph was taken on Bridge Street in Watsonville. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alice Wiggins Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c.1942 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bobby Mariano Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-driven public history initiative to preserve and uplift stories of Filipino migration and labor in the city of Watsonville and greater Pajaro Valley. Images were donated and digitally reproduced from private collections of individuals and families. Copyright remains with original owners. All images included herein are intended for personal or educational use only. Any reproduction, redistribution, publication, or other use, by any means, without prior written permission is prohibited. Please note that the images on this website are not included at their full resolution. For permission to publish or reproduce and for higher resolution files, please contact the project director at wiith@ucsc.edu . If you are the rightful copyright holder of this item and its use online constitutes an infringement of your copyright, please contact the project director to discuss its removal from the archive. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 3.5x5 Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MAR.2022.1 Relation A related resource For more information on mixed-race relationships: Winkelmann, Tessa. Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2b07v9k. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. Little Manila Is in the Heart : The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. Durham: Duke University Press (2013). San Pablo Burns, Lucy Mae. “‘Splendid Dancing’: Filipino ‘Exceptionalism’ in Taxi Dancehalls.” Dance Research Journal 40, no. 2 (2008): 23–40. Roces, Mina. “‘These Guys Came Out Looking Like Movie Actors’: Filipino Dress and Consumer Practices in the United States, 1920s–1930s.” Pacific Historical Review 85, no. 4 (2016): 532–76. Filipino Infantry Regiment Watsonville