Discover the remarkable history of Pacoima in Crystal Jackson’s The Entrance: Pacoima’s Story, featuring rare photos, archival documents and stories spanning Native, Latino, Black, Japanese and White history.
 
Learn the stories behind groundbreaking schools, historic athletic achievements,extraordinary engineering projects, neighborhood activism, cultural change, and generations of residents who refused to allow outsiders to define their community. Even as Pacoima became the target of jokes and negative stereotypes in popular culture, its people were building a legacy of resilience, achievement, and influence.
 
Filled with hundreds of rare photographs and historical documents from the archives of the Pacoima Historical Society, The Entrance: Pacoima’s Story takes readers from the area’s earliest inhabitants through its modern-day evolution.
 
Provocative, revealing, inspiring, and deeply human, this is more than the history of Pacoima. It is an overlooked chapter of the American story.