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Brownie Banal and Tony Asuncion Sitting in the Backyard

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Title

Brownie Banal and Tony Asuncion Sitting in the Backyard

Description

Photograph of Uncle "Brownie" (first name) Banal and Anastacio "Tony" sitting in the Asuncion backyard on Buena Vista Drive. Manong Brownie is mentioned in Anastacio's essay Watsonville's Filipino Bachelor Community. Anastacio wrote this paper in 1970 while he was an undergraduate student at UC, Santa Cruz. Anastacio remembers Brownie bringing a gunny sack of roosters after cockfights, and his mom cooked them into a stew.

Creator

unknown

Date

c. 60s-70s

Contributor

Anastacio Asuncion

Rights

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

3.5 x 4.5"

Type

Still Image

Identifier

AUS.2023.3

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Original Format

Photograph

Files

AUS.2023.3.jpeg

Citation

unknown , “Brownie Banal and Tony Asuncion Sitting in the Backyard,” Watsonville is in the Heart: Community Digital Archive, accessed November 7, 2024, https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/items/show/972.

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