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Art Snyder: A Genuinely Interesting Dude

By Lionel Rolfe
Random Lengths News | November 16, 2012
Most people knew Art as the very white Los Angeles councilman in the heavily Latino northeastern district, who was elected sometime in the late ‘60s. So Art became the councilman representing El Sereno, Eagle Rock and Glassell Park,  among others. He held the post for nearly two decades. He was a red-headed Irishman who looked like the Marine he had been. But he was born in Lincoln Heights at the bottom of the Great Depression, so it was natural he learned to speak Spanish.
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