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FIVE POINTS, Tucson — Standing in Downtown Tucson, you see how old buildings with history exist among more modern offices and apartments.
We asked two men with deep roots in the barrios about the history that’s changed the neighborhoods to what they are now, and why it’s important to learn from it. "Initially, it's a state route," he said,"and this state route will take you all the way to Nogales before they had a freeway." Just like Gonzales, artist Luis Mena used to run and play on the streets that connect barrios Santa Rita, Santa Rosa, Barrio Viejo and Armory Park.
Mena, however, said he's quick to recognize neighbors before him fought to get these monuments built; to get their own history recognized." have been fighting to get these arches that are over 60 feet... it took, what 30 years? Almost 30 years?" he said. "What the City of Tucson did with urban removal -- it wasn't urban renewal to us," Gonzales said."It was urban removal."
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