Los Angeles–If you didn’t know of last July’s bus tour of Historic Filipinotown, the Filipino American Library is organizing another tour this month. If you want to know more about your Pinoy roots, this is one tour you wouldn’t want to miss.

Historic Filipinotown is a district in Los Angeles, California, where the early Filipino migrants of the twentieth century first settled. Today, it has the highest concentration of Filipino Americans and remains the cultural heart of Pinoys in Los Angeles. Many Filipino restaurants can be found in Historic Filipinotown.

The tour takes one through Historic Filipinotown while a guide narrates the significance of particular sites, events, and individuals that were part of its history.

Second- and third-generation Pinoys have this to say about the tour: “Before the tour I didn’t even know about Historic Filipinotown.  I didn’t know there was such a deep history of Filipinos in Los Angeles.” Others have pointed out how “informative” the tour is, and how “it points out all the important landmarks that one wouldn’t have known otherwise.”

The tour is free and takes 1.5 hours. There will be four tours at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. on November 22, Saturday. Assembly is at the Filipino American Library on 135 N. Park View Street, Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles 90026. To reserve a slot, e-mail filamlibrary@sbcglobal.net or call (213) 382 0488.

Founded in 1985 by “Auntie Helen” Agcaoili Summers Brown, the Filipino American Library is the first and largest Filipino library with more than 6,000 titles. It aims to promote the history, culture, and professional achievements of Filipinos and Filipino Americans through book collection, leadership development, and cultural programming.

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