Oral history interview with Betty Reyes
Object Details
- General
- Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
- Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
- Names
- Reyes, Betty
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- El Salvador
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Topic
- Women
- Restaurateurs
- Businesswomen
- Restaurants
- Family-owned business enterprises
- Cooking, Salvadoran
- Cooking, Mexican
- Interviews
- Culture
- Salvadorans
- See more items in
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Extent
- 1 Digital file
- 1 Sound cassette
- Date
- 1993 June
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Digital files
- Sound cassettes
- Citation
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Note
- The total playing time of interview recording is approximately 25 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- Betty Reyes, co-owner of restaurant El Tamarindo, spoke about the demographics of restaurant patrons, the evolution of the menu, source of food for restaurant, where and how often advertise, how neighborhood has changed since restaurant opened, why like working in restaurant, and why does not like working in restaurant. She identified the Salvadoran dishes on the menu, noted much of the menu is Mexican food at this location, and listed the ingredients of the horchata, her mother's recipe from El Salvador. Reyes also spoke about her children, the food she cooks at home for her family, food from other cultures she eats, restaurants she eats at when she goes out to eat, the Salvadoran American cultural organization, her husband's involvement in a soccer fundraiser for children in El Salvador, her sister's restaurant in Wheaton, Maryland, and visiting El Salvador. She also explained why she moved to Washington, DC. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include white noise and static, and background noise. Interviewee's voice is intelligible for the most part.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1712088000981-1712088003346-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0