Talia Liquor is located on Market Street near the intersection of Market and Radio Street in Encanto. Talia Liqour constitutes a small mini-market with a Louisiana-style deli next door. At the other end of the building is a small insurance office. The building next door, Radiator King, has rusted rebar with cracking paint. Our car barely sqeezed by the Budweiser delivery truck as we parked. Telephone and power lines criss-cross the sky above us. Radio Street is not even paved and it runs along a weed-choked drainage creek. We only heard English and Spanish being spoken around the store. It seems predominately African-American and Hispanic around the store. The clerk inside Talia's was Middle-Eastern. Was there a window without bars around the neighborhood? We don't think so. Across the street another paled stucco building reads "Shiloh Temple." It looks empty. Lots of cars driving by but only a few people stopping. It seems they only buy smokes and alcohol. Empty boxes of Old English line the sidewalk outside Talia's.

Public Place Interviews:

Interviewee #1:

Ron, owner of small insurance business and has operated in Encanto for over thirty years.

1. O'Farrell/Morse Students

* Ron describes students as "just like any other kids." He used words like "normal, sharp, deprived, good and communicative" to describe the kids in this area. He impressed upon us how much they were like kids from any other "areas."

2. O'Farrell/Morse Schools

* He admits to not knowing much about these two schools other than he has heard they are deprived. However, he feels other aspects of the schools are normal.

3. The Community

* It is home. Ron feels it has been a solid place to run his business and live his life. He reports no problems about living in the Encanto community.

4. Teachers

* Be yourself! Kids sense "bullshit." If you are sincere you should be fine.

 

Interviewee #2:

1. O'Farrell/Morse Students