Ed Lowery

“Trailer parks are a way, most of the trailer parks I’ve experienced, are a way for the lower income people to live. And that’s why they’re consider “trailer park trash”, because you’re a lower income person.”

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“Yeah. As a trailer owner, you are so stigmatized as a second class citizen because you live in a trilly. You don’t live in Windsor Farm. You don’t live in Bensley community. You not in a Ranch-Style house that’s built with a ground foundation. You’re living in a trailer. It’s mobile. It’s below standard. Who’s standard?” (01:05:44 – 01:07:03)

Ed, (5/5/2023, Part 1)

“One big event [in Shady Hill’s history]. Wilson Trucking Company across the street, was a trucking company. […] Before I moved here [to Shady Hill]. I came up and I saw they had blocked off JD highway. All the way through. And I thought, “No, I’m getting through.” Unknown chemical spill, or explosion. I came up to Lupe’s, and they were freaking out. “We got to move. We got to get out of here.” I said, “Y’all hop in my car. We’re going down to my house.” I made 20 trips back here- And also had anybody that could drive follow me down to my house on Fairfax avenue. […] The chemical spill, it actually brought the community together, closer, because I not only had Mexicans, Salvadorians, and Guatemalans, and I had Hondurans, all fleein’ to my house, and you want to be in my house, you’re going to be socializing with them and- it opened a community, made the community a community.” (44:49 – 47:16)

Ed, (5/5/2023, Part 2)