WEBVTT

00:01.181 --> 00:04.164
AT NBC ASIAN AMERICAN, TWO

00:04.175 --> 00:05.213
CALIFORNIA FAMILIES ARE

00:05.214 --> 00:06.231
CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT

00:06.265 --> 00:07.204
HOMEOWNERSHIP AND THE AMERICAN

00:07.215 --> 00:08.326
DREAM, SHOWING US THE REAL

00:08.337 --> 00:09.517
DREAM IS NOT ABOUT OWNING THE

00:09.518 --> 00:11.445
HOME BUT PASSING IT ON.
>> THE HISTORIC HOTEL BILL

00:11.479 --> 00:16.233
>> THE HISTORIC HOTEL BILL

00:16.234 --> 00:23.840
CORONADO ANCHORS THE OCEANSIDE

00:23.841 --> 00:27.574
TOWN THAT SHARES ITS NAME.

00:27.585 --> 00:29.966
>> IT’S STILL HERE, AND IT

00:30.001 --> 00:30.617
STILL FABULOUS.

00:30.619 --> 00:32.215
>> A LASTING SYMBOL OF A BYGONE

00:32.216 --> 00:33.485
ERA CATERING TO THE WEALTHY AND

00:33.496 --> 00:34.699
THE WELL-KNOWN, IT WAS BUILT IN

00:34.700 --> 00:35.461
THE LATE 1800S BY THOUSANDS OF

00:35.472 --> 00:35.750
WORKERS.

00:35.761 --> 00:36.648
AMONG THEM, GUS THOMPSON,

00:36.682 --> 00:42.766
KEMP’S GREAT-GRANDFATHER.
>> HE STARTED A BUSINESS OF HIS

00:42.777 --> 00:48.563
>> HE STARTED A BUSINESS OF HIS

00:48.574 --> 00:56.854
OWN, HE AND MY GREAT

00:56.888 --> 01:00.924
GRANDMOTHER HAD A CAFI AND

01:00.925 --> 01:01.326
BAKERY.

01:01.327 --> 01:02.897
>> GUS THOMPSON WAS BORN INTO

01:02.908 --> 01:04.185
SLAVERY ENDURING A LIFE IN THE

01:04.196 --> 01:05.060
JIM CROW SOUTH FOR DECADES

01:05.071 --> 01:05.777
BEFORE MOVING WEST.

01:05.778 --> 01:06.917
LATER, BECOMING A PIONEER IN

01:06.951 --> 01:08.079
CALIFORNIA AT A TIME WHEN THE

01:08.090 --> 01:08.768
STATES BLACK POPULATION WAS

01:08.779 --> 01:09.514
LESS THAN 1%.

01:09.525 --> 01:10.857
AND ABOUT THREE BLOCKS FROM THE

01:10.868 --> 01:12.115
RESORT HE HELPED BUILD, GUS AND

01:12.116 --> 01:13.263
HIS WIFE EMMA, LIVED HERE, IN

01:13.264 --> 01:13.879
THIS HOME, WITH THEIR THREE

01:13.880 --> 01:14.157
KIDS.

01:14.168 --> 01:15.191
>> THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE.

01:15.202 --> 01:16.237
THIS HAS BEEN HERE SINCE THE

01:16.272 --> 01:16.797
LATE 1800S?

01:16.808 --> 01:17.921
>> 1895 TO BE EXACT.

01:17.923 --> 01:18.982
>> FOR YEARS, CORONADO RESIDENT

01:19.017 --> 01:21.372
KEVIN ASHLEY HAS CREATED AN

01:21.373 --> 01:22.755
EXHIBIT ABOUT THE CITY’S BLACK

01:22.766 --> 01:23.590
HIDDEN HISTORY PAY

01:23.591 --> 01:24.894
>> THE IDEA THAT THERE WAS A

01:24.905 --> 01:26.054
THRIVING AFRICAN AMERICAN

01:26.088 --> 01:26.946
COMMUNITY BETWEEN 1890 AND

01:26.948 --> 01:27.207
1920.

01:27.218 --> 01:27.793
HUGELY SHOCKING.

01:27.794 --> 01:31.668
>> NEXT TO THE THOMPSON’S HOME

01:31.669 --> 01:33.054
STANDS A SMALL APARTMENT

01:33.088 --> 01:34.752
BUILDING.
IT WAS ONCE A STABLE AND SHOULD

01:34.763 --> 01:38.912
IT WAS ONCE A STABLE AND SHOULD

01:38.923 --> 01:46.053
WELCOME PEOPLE IN WHERE NO ONE

01:46.087 --> 01:47.030
ELSE WOULD.

01:47.041 --> 01:48.983
>> IT WAS THE ONE PLACE WHERE

01:48.984 --> 01:50.158
AFRICAN AMERICANS COULD RENT A

01:50.192 --> 01:51.218
BED TO SLEEP IN CORONADO.

01:51.229 --> 01:52.184
THE OLD ORIGINAL HOUSE, THEY

01:52.195 --> 01:52.804
USUALLY RENTED OUT TO

01:52.805 --> 01:53.073
IMMIGRANTS.

01:53.084 --> 01:54.270
>> ONE OF THEM, CHINESE

01:54.271 --> 01:57.712
AMERICAN GARDENER, LLOYD .  HIS

01:57.713 --> 01:59.849
SON, RON, WAS JUST A TODDLER AT

01:59.883 --> 02:01.160
THE TIME.

02:01.171 --> 02:06.979
>> HE FINDS OUT THE HOUSE NEXT

02:06.990 --> 02:09.912
DOOR IS NOT BEING USED BY GUS

02:09.923 --> 02:10.248
ANYMORE.

02:10.259 --> 02:11.616
>> THE THOMPSON’S RENTED THE

02:11.650 --> 02:14.602
MAIN HOUSE TO THE ’S, WHEN THEY

02:14.613 --> 02:19.267
EVENTUALLY, AND ASKED THAT THEN

02:19.278 --> 02:23.812
DISC DEFIED THE EXCLUSIONARY

02:23.846 --> 02:24.292
HOUSING.

02:24.303 --> 02:28.771
>> THE THOMPSON’S GIVEN A

02:28.772 --> 02:32.013
CHANCE THAT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE

02:32.014 --> 02:32.719
HAD OTHERWISE.

02:32.720 --> 02:34.392
>> IT’S A CHANCE THAT THE ’S

02:34.426 --> 02:35.503
HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN AND THE

02:35.514 --> 02:40.497
FAVOR THEIR FAMILIES ABOUT TO

02:40.531 --> 02:44.078
RETURN.

02:44.089 --> 02:44.754
>>

02:44.765 --> 02:47.604
>> I SAID WE ARE GOING TO SELL

02:47.606 --> 02:49.905
THE PROPERTY AND WE ARE GOING
TO GIVE OUR PROCEEDS TO THE

02:49.939 --> 02:57.746
TO GIVE OUR PROCEEDS TO THE
BLACK RESOURCE CENTE