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Īrguably, El Pino is more famous than the actual Tree of Life located in Bahrain, and thanks to Blood In, Blood Out, El Pino is known the world over.ĭamian Chapa, who plays one of the film’s lead characters, Miklo, tells L.A. County Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda Solis.) The tree was even serenaded. (The petition was originally addressed to Mayor Eric Garcetti it has since been updated and is now addressed to L.A. An online petition to save the tree was started, and it continues to grow in virtual signatures despite the property owner stating that El Pino is not being chopped down. Prior to being reported as a bad joke, the community came out in droves to show their undying support for El Pino.
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Just before New Year’s, there was some suspicion that El Pino was going to suffer an unconscionable demise at the end of a chainsaw blade.
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Whether spiritually destined or fortuitous, El Pino is L.A.’s tree of life. But from a human perspective, the tree is a towering focal point deeply embedded in the soil of a microcosm that has been home to Japanese Americans, Jews, Latinos, Buddhists, Koreans, African Americans, and Armenians. Some may chalk it up to coincidence that El Pino, the southland’s most famous bunya pine tree, is located in what is, historically, one of the city’s most ethnically diverse areas, East L.A. Being connected to the earth, or finding a sense of identity through a tree’s roots are enduring metaphors that span multiple religions and cultures. M ystical and figurative interpretations of the Tree of Life, or Etz Chayim in Hebrew, can be tied to the Garden of Eden, the Torah, fertility, immortality, family, and the search for spiritual enlightenment.