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Juan Lockett von Wittelsbach

b. 1953

Born
3 May 1953, Lima
Country of birth
Peru

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A life in time

  1. Born · Lima

    Birth, Lima

What was it like?

The world around Lima, 1953: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Juan was born around the same time as Hugo Chávez, Robin Williams, and Jackie Chan.

Born around the same time

  • Hugo Chávez

    1954 · president of Venezuela (1999–2013); revolutionary and military officer

  • Robin Williams

    1951 · American actor and comedian (1951–2014)

  • Jackie Chan

    1954 · Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

  • Martina Navratilova

    1956 · Czech-American tennis player

  • Vladimir Putin

    1952 · President of the Russian Federation

  • Angela Merkel

    1954 · chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

Fashion

Layering polleras for festivals

Women would wear multiple colorful, handwoven wool skirts called polleras, sometimes wearing up to 15 layers for special festivals.

Sandals made from recycled tires

For footwear, many people wore durable sandals called ajotas, which were ingeniously crafted from recycled truck tires.

Music

Huayno music played at home celebrations

In the Callejón de Huaylas, the huayno was the most popular music and dance, often played at home during birthdays, weddings, and baptisms using harps and violins.

Procession musicians walked facing the saint

During processions, musicians and dancers walked backwards while facing the patron saint statue, while brass bands of about fourteen musicians followed behind.

Getting around
Around 1950–1950

Train station food and bustling local life

In 1950, trains served as vital links for many towns, stopping frequently at small stations where vendors sold local specialties like roast suckling pig, chicha, and various dishes featuring potatoes and rice. Train stations were busy hubs of local commerce, characterized by passengers crowding into cars and the lively activity of food sellers.

Ten-hour train journey with oxygen onboard

During the mid-20th century, passengers traveling the 346 km route between Lima and Huancayo by train spent ten and a half hours on the journey. The train was equipped with nurses carrying oxygen bottles to assist passengers suffering from altitude sickness.

Daily life

Self-organized electricity access

In some Lima shanty towns, residents organized groups to manually install electrical wiring by pulling cables to their homes from nearby areas.

Around 1945–1952

Rural school hygiene and agriculture training

Clustered peasant schools, or núcleos escolares, taught indigenous children modern agricultural techniques and hygiene habits like using soap and getting regular haircuts.

Food

Street-sold tamales for twenty centavos

In Lima, people could buy tamales from street vendors for twenty centavos each during the mid-20th century. Vendors often carried these popular corn-based snacks in buckets to sell to customers in the streets.

Around 1959–1960

Two-sole lunches for workers

In the late 1950s, a simple lunch menu of soup, beans with rice, bread, and a drink at popular restaurants in Lima cost two soles. Workers often had to wait in lines to eat these affordable meals at midday.

Prices and wages
Around 1959–1960

Lunch and cigarette prices in late 1950s

Around 1959-1960, a complete lunch at a popular restaurant in Lima cost 2 soles, while a pack of black cigarettes was 1.60 soles. Imported light cigarettes were significantly more expensive, costing 7 soles.

Around 1945–1945

Worker salary versus university costs in 1945

In 1945, a laborer in Lima earned approximately 45 soles, while university admission fees cost 50 soles.

Work

Daily rations of chicha and coca

Peasants on the Sullupucyo hacienda were sometimes given a daily ration of chicha, a crude corn whisky, and coca leaves to deaden hunger and pain.

Flexible work for nursing milkmaids

Milkmaids in Cajamarca often brought their nursing infants to work, as the profession allowed for a flexible, shortened workday that facilitated child rearing.

News and letters

Personal letter delivery via travelers

Handwritten letters were frequently sent by family members or friends traveling between cities like Abancay and Lima, ensuring they arrived personally.

Telegram usage for emergency communication

Telegramas were used for emergencies and required paying for each word, with arrival sometimes announced via communal radio broadcasts.

During their lifetime

  1. 1968

    1968 Military Coup and Reforms

    In 1968, a military coup led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado initiated major land reforms and nationalizations to alter Peru's economic structure.

  2. 1980

    Shining Path Insurgency Begins 1980

    In 1980, the Shining Path guerrilla group began an armed struggle that resulted in thousands of deaths and the displacement of 600,000 people.

  3. 1990

    Fujimori Elected Amidst 1990 Crisis

    Alberto Fujimori was elected president in 1990, launching severe austerity and privatization programs as inflation reached 400%.

Family

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Ancestors and children

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Four generations back to the right, the children to the left. The number beside a child counts the generations of descendants known after them.