Asturian-American Migration Forum

My grandfather (born in WV 1914), traveled to Spain in 1967. I have a video of a house that -- based on what my dad says -- is where my great grandfather grew up. I've checked google maps, the house is still there. The house is on the cliffs at Playa de Arnao, near the mine. If I were to put a Youtube link to the video could anyone identify it or verify that it is actually a house or provide any other information?

I've added an image from google of the house, but it is not too clear. It's in the middle and you can kind of make out a yellow line around it.

Here is the Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AaqmofTbGE
The house is the one with the red shutters. I'm pretty sure that the video shows the zinc mine, too. The bullfighting is just extra material.

My grampa is the guy on the right. The older couple apparently lived there and they said they remembered the Zapico's.



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Mi abuelo (nacido en NY en 1914), viajó a España en 1967. Tengo un video de una casa que - basado en lo que mi papá dice - es donde mi bisabuelo se crió. He revisado los mapas de Google, la casa sigue ahí. La casa se encuentra en los acantilados de la Playa de Arnao, cerca de la mina. ¿Si pusiera un eslabón de YouTube para el vídeo hay alguien que lo identifica o comproba que en realidad es una casa o nos da cualquier otra información?

He añadido una imagen de google de la casa, pero no es muy clara. Está en el centro y se puede ver débilmente una línea amarilla a su alrededor.

Aquí está el eslabón de Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AaqmofTbGE
La casa es el que tiene las contraventanas de color rojo. Estoy bastante seguro de que el video muestra también la mina de zinc. El toreo es sólo material extra.

Mi abuelo es el hombre a la derecha. La pareja de ancianos, al parecer, vivía allí y le dijeron que recordaban de los Zapicos.

Yes, please post a link in this thread. We have several forum members who are very familiar with that area.

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Sí, pon una eslabón en este tema. Tenemos algunos miembros del foro quienes son muy bien familiarizado con la zona.

I've added the link to the first message. Here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AaqmofTbGE

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He añadido el eslabón al primer mensaje. Aquí está otra vez:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AaqmofTbGE

Hello, Zapico. I've translated your messages and written to a friend to ask for her help.

Now for some friendly advice.....

When I translate a message, I often use this online service as a first step: http://translate.google.com/translate_t ... v=_t&hl=en
It's helpful, but not good enough for the final translation. But Google can't decipher poorly constructed texts.

For example, in this case, I had to correct a number of spelling, capitalization, and grammar errors because Google couldn't understand your message. Please remember that many of our members don't read English and will use a web translation service to help them read your messages. I don't usually translate your messages for you. So, if you want other members to help you, you will have to be very careful in constructing your messages.

I know the actual owner of that house, but nothing to do with the Zapico family, actually I think he brought it from somebody else.

Thanks so much for your reply, Chanquete. What time period in this house's history do you know well? Zapico was saying that his grandfather was born in 1914, nearly 100 years ago.

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Muchas gracias por tu respuesta, Chanquete. ¿De cuál período de tiempo en la historia de esa casa sabes bien? Zapico estaba diciendo que su abuelo nació en 1914, hace casi 100 años.

The Zapico family would have lived there before 1906.

La familia Zapico habría vivido allí antes de 1906.

fiveteen years ago. Now it belongs to the Miguel family, a couple with a baby.
I heard of you, and of your intererest for this house througt facebook and this post: Cesar Manuel Rodríguez Fernández -AMIGOS DE LA PLAYA DE ARNAO(CASTRILLON)

I added your video to this page, as you will see there were many comments, I hope someone said something that will be helpful to know their history, now the house there and live there, plus the mine is being restored and it is possible that this year inaugurated a museum in it.
If you have more videos or photos we would love to join the group Friends Arnao Beach where we try to recover the history of this place.

Thank you very much for your video.

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He añadido su video a esta pagina, como podra observar ha habido muchos comentarios, espero que alguien comente algo que le sirva de ayuda para conocer su historia, actualmente la casa existe y viven en ella, ademas la mina se esta restaurando y es posible que este año se inagure un museo en ella.
Si dispone de mas videos o fotos nos encataria que formase parte del grupo amigos de la playa de Arnao donde intentamos recuperar la historia de este lugar.

Muchas gracias por su video.