"We Paid Our Dues" · Jimmy on Building Community, Gang Violence & the City Doubling His Taxes
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0:00A: Okay, go ahead.
0:00B: As far as we paid our dues a long time ago.
0:03A: Why is this place important to you? Why is this place important to you?
0:11B: Because we’ve done so many things for the community, even the city. And then the city has sort of slapped me in the face by doubling my taxes. And we did so many things for the community, affordable housing, everything. That, you know, even nonprofits, we got them off the ground by using the theater. We had -- we even had a thing on that with the city on gang violence where we had 1,000 students here and James Olmos from California who knew about gangs. He was part of one before he became famous as a movie star. Oh, you know. And we had that over here and he wowed the kids and taught their language and we got the city off of a big gang violence thing that they couldn’t, they couldn’t handle at the time.
0:11B: So they looked at looking at another neutral place and they found my place. And it ended up that they never paid me for it. I donated the whole thing. So we did a lot of things for the community, just various things. And I used to be an activist, so, you know, you know what they say, you can take the kid out of the box but you can’t take the body out of the kid. And I guess that’s what I am, you know. I still have the same feeling because I grew up poor, and I still have the same feeling about humanity, that humanity needs to keep their humanity.
0:11B: We need to be kind to people. No wars. You can have it. Here’s one too. Just peace, peace and kindness to each other. That’s why I grew up with.
2:10A: Okay, and who should people call if they’re interested in purchasing this place?
2:14B: They can call me Tim Timio or Tim C O R R E A Timio Korea huh? Uh huh Tim Korea that’s six five four seven twenty six five four oh five two six present number get a hold of me.
2:30A: And what’s the name of this place?
2:31B: And the name of the place is Yatzlan Santa Fe. They gave you the correct -- And we started in 1973, and I just came off a job with the University of Colorado handling out free scholarships, tuition under President Johnson.
2:51A: Thank you.
2:52B: For all the poor kids, minorities who couldn’t afford a college education. And I told them I would even buy their books. They couldn’t believe it. We love Chimio. Okay, okay, okay.
3:06A: I like that, I like that.
3:07B: That’s good for -- that’s good for it.
