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arm of as bc communications and its southwestern bell and cellular one operations within sight of the towering dallas skyline bipartisan almost all that remains vibrant downtown mexico has been a symbol of the mexican american or more the former residents return to celebrate the mexican holiday section of the mine it is the place for women and families and their new lives in this country thank you the house

that's dallas in nineteen ten and then fleeing the mexican revolution refugees came from all walks of life from a pharmacy soldiers others many like what scientists hope to return to their homeland a candidate like barry other mike scully came here you know let this war and that is you know going to be in the hearing on them or women make your money and go buy that crap situation where he gets made raises family and now he yet ruled syria and one anywhere near your fans will dictate that theory some immigrants to mexico were lured by plentiful work opportunities the railroads drew people in to dallas from all points of the compass the railroad companies as well as the surrounding farms offered were unskilled

laborers murray uncle bruno for uncle used to write letters to send them though it's good wages to be working here hold of there in mexico i love the town and and when i count ballots will that came to live with one of the sisters and it's funny john by nineteen twenty the community around ten thousand and bounded by that he had introduced in the missouri kansas and texas railroad tracks to the west little mexico expand maple avenue and conversely what is now being an arts district in an historic westminster mexican immigrants moved into a white area populated by mostly which genes engineering at a jewish community

event we kind of story hotel racial jewish committee he's living conditions throughout the body are very great and some homes were made from scrap wood and top railroad workers were allowed to live in boxcars by the tracks of the french and the streets were lined with small frame houses in the twenty five yard line they had a backyard they really make a freight crossing to build another house on the other side and they would put cereal and play other

than that played out on the dirt street like many places during the nineteen twenties and thirties medical care was and frequent or nonexistent leading to many here are lori i let as her ten brothers and sisters only she and one brother survive to adulthood and any time a teenager and now the vaccination for the chicken pox an audi so that we're among libraries and they were born and there was tempered and they haven't taken back the measles and on that day and when medical care was not available many residents rely on home remedies and folk customs from mexico for healing a rainy day or wash he's in the water their bodies about me being an ice cold bottle

my mother got a scare nevada and her back to mexico accused of the blood do they go and get some cobwebs spider webs from under the house and then senator biden have to go on the house to get some cobwebs it's too that could stop the flow of blood this common cultural heritage attracted more families to little mexico some jewish businesses stayed in the body of adapting to a new clientele marched and people referred to the flower store affectionately in their language lucky and reconnected which means ruben at store i think the reason that my dad made a living all those years was the fact that he realized that the mexican people our unique bunch of the fact that they would preserve their heritage and most of the stores did not have the spices that they needed to flavor their foods so my dad used to go to san antonio and he brought back

all the spices that he cared put in the crop they made a living and we enjoyed it and i will always look back at the radio or an advantage the political issue twenty five groceries dotted detainees were a lot of little mexico area along with other specialty shops many individuals and businesses to prosper through hard work and initiative madia luna was a widow with two small children when she arrived in this country she talked her employer into selling an old worn blinder to her credit she had a plan to begin her own party and making sure that women in business didn't mess with the traditional mexican culture in addition to

the police station every good or service as the neighborhood who've been visible changes to the outside of the agency's slow to change president sometimes experience renee martinez says another team from mexico she came from a middle class family and some those and then all of a sudden from one day to the next year or trash you wore a mask you are less than first class citizen and so that has a very

traumatic experience on up fifteen fourteen thirteen year old child especially young lady so she faced over so she did the type of hard work making to three dollars for those of a weak and suffering a lot of obviously describe discrimination in jobs and being treated differently so that i think that instilled something and they had a very strong willed young woman that she basically said i'm like that allow my family to go through the same things that i've gone through in those days the fifty three have streetcars filings and buses were used to go downtown sarah harris when we'd always sit in the front a mother would never allow us to sit in the back you know supposedly told something that she would never let that happen and she would tell me always she said you know don't let anybody including the bus drivers the truck probably car drivers say anything to you about your name because sometimes the bus drivers it's a bunch of the howey by cheadle and i should say you know you mention it and that's your

name i don't go back to what our parents taught us like my parents my mother taught me of some the history of mexico and dad taught us to be probably mexican the transition in the neighborhood from predominantly white mexican american was not always seen in the neighborhood park was one point of tension who knew you were going to hit a new part as the community residents faster access to fight parking its facilities although many were us no political representation they chose to take their grievances

what finally won of it costs for mexico and asking them you know that could you do anything about it and he negotiated the un for us to do the part in it took about to approve years so it would produce a partitioning or early in the morning which color were leftover from the day before women who gives him the city's park or established regulations in nineteen thirty one for the joint use of high art facilities the whites and mexican americans other parts in dallas continue to be for whites only yemeni as a new generation grew up in the body of its residents learn to balance their part mexican heritage with a new american language and culture this movie from a minor scholar of was what i ate and that eskew

has given to tell me what do you call this and when he told me that i wrote it because i know that as a rodent spanish scholar at the court in spanish is what do you call this an island some of the things would work robert been in school here i am first down or wanna wanna start talking to this kid not long ago in spanish and in english and then he looks at the time a weird look at racism understand what you're saying this is what what you mean you don't understand what i'm sayin says that other languages we speak and i'll speak the language and i'm going on the race talk like i do enough on chicken what look at it in a desolate was aware that that our innocence i don't know i thought that now the word because the

money by little but i didn't know it was by label adds that he just may be aware that a spoken language is the sense of community and little mexico was one of mutual understanding the times does that fit in she had fourteen children and now of course when she was sick she couldn't do anything so my mother and other neighbors would come in with the bottom chicken with reiser and beanstalk dsm take my mother to cook and she had a big stack of talk ds and plenty of food for him and others would bring i go and it was a you know mexican braver are us we break or whatever in india don't help but in every way but the committee was that little thin aged you know there's a

lot of course laura condition that we enjoyed those days we're going there to listen politely and women using was important form of entertainment that it connected to people to their roots in mexico where the intellectual and then who the thing good morning so we're just going to say this the main thing was latin music tropical and we also makes a romantic woes

music from mexico liberals before they're fifteen menu at the local clinic that's the unintelligible probably don't remember that my mother to be there one time there's a post affair park protests had a funeral home and then take a one time somebody said quote best place for people to dance on sunday and then he we're somewhat somebody else on monday that that used to be the joke with low first funeral homes owned by amex wants you the mexican holiday celebrated tradition began in nineteen twenty six

gawne who are they gonna well now nineteen a performer began her singing career as a young girl growing up in the next on various religions and art a demonstration of atheist that they would have a contest to see who dictated a decorated they're both said that they need you know the most original a prettiest and they would get prices that people would get prizes and then have them are listening to our law center the hamburgers and everything that especially the mexican food i remember that what many view i've been here within a mile of the party and that's

one of the oldest kinds of jobs is this the local mexican consul participate and be in the main event of the many in a way our body weight and we here daily go there and businesses of gambling oh yeah the motion then everything bands people thought that you get your ear up to downtown an important that you knew somebody was celebrated what i remember most of those along baseball games and finally finally at baseball games and practicing aren't playing other schools it would come in from other bodies and play them and that's where we really

refine our athletic skills another community gathering place with the catholic church with its religious traditions plot from mexico the church of our lady of guadalupe built in nineteen twenty five a competition from a rival catholic church and caroline <unk> we have these waste he came in in the thirties so i think it was chris and duckworth a roman catholic priest refer to him as a rebel priest his name was firing also and he started he saw a church and he called it the mexican catholic church it was a mexican catholic church because he did not want the money that was collected to go wrong you want to do you go to mexico or they hear and bass so he had a big file and i remember my mother was one of those religious place called pass the us what

was a sacred and everyone would fall into trouble can get in line and walking in the procession down to me a church and would have a final mass i guess it was a couple of hundred people all you could see were just little flickering candles when you're in seven or eight years while everything seems larger and bigger and much more inclusive was fun time today remembering mystery there were other activities affiliated with our lady of guadalupe church in san antonio the church established parts of the poison his growing up and sportsmanship this a better way to settle their differences we started buzzing in valdez alaska is pretty good boxing still unease to love these things are on in here want it so we started singing and now it is playing live with sportsmen and what our

boxer is used to love when the bell rang going to try to not the other men out but when the real as bell rings a lot wrong your friends you cannot get mad at this person that would support mechanic sell the arts and again on expeditions well employees to return north american invasion during world war two soon used to discipline in the rain the warriors win crucial to politically in america is returning soldiers shortly after the war saint and school officials saw the need for girls to continue their education with the urging of the sisters and backing from the bishop a commercial high school for girls was dedicated on september twenty eight nineteen forty seven they designed a high school basically because they want to give the girls something other than chow regime which is basically what they were going to bury

or picking cotton or shallot pecans they taught him not only to write and report from typing ahead to shorthand on whether distinctly remembers impeachment business deals that hopefully will allow them to go into different areas of the workforce are the majority of children growing up and going to school is going to represent the members of a greater dallas by the nineteen fifties fred wesley stephenson located downtown akron for travis elementary an aging schools built in the name of venus attended travis until it was destroyed by fire in april of nineteen fifty five students were transferred overnight cumberland years ago all i can remember where his classroom for a crowded we share textbooks and three kids protect book to this day i don't know how to write cursive

really miss that period and the lesson plan had no ta scores in those days and out the restrooms are filthy the lunchrooms were filthy all black top outside no grants so we learned how to play sports so that we would not fall off our feet because we've cut ourselves martinez's mother and others from the traverse pta were concerned about school overcrowding traffic problems there were no school buses and children are crossing dangerous intersections to get to class they wanna travis rebuild quickly and it turns out that in those days and of audio there was a garden club that was an auxiliary mexican american and my mother going to end the dow was gordon was cheered by most will rogers and my mother through her connections in her friend's internet working somehow got the message to ms rogers to tailor that the conditions at cumberland hill

where we're were terrible this is what all rogers wife of the former mayor of dallas arranged for a newspaper reporter to do a story on the conditions at cumberland hill meetings took place with school officials and three years later in nineteen fifty eight students returned to a new travis elementary school the first thing is we had jim and we'd never had a gym and so my first thought was god wouldn't have a basketball team signed as it into basketball and we had we finally had a facility their new rooms at desks with a beautiful auditorium will the new lights you know the old lights the old gm viola a torrent of cumberland don't have all the fancy lights and so we had a new building the nineteen sixties brought tremendous visible changed a little mexico residents began moving to the suburbs and businesses follow the suburban flight in nineteen sixty six the construction of the dallas north through the heart of

little mexico although there were protests in some mexican american property owners were forced by state law to sell their homes for an average price of ten thousand dollars or so are renters lost their homes to commercial development and freeway expansion abel baron in his family lived in their home until nineteen seventy the house at a chemical in the body of her twenty one day i called my mom and she's crying on the phone from compound interest is in turn the house down and don obviously when she goes to house and in the window and sure enough it was a small crane up there just just putting holes in your house and i live across the street and i discussed at this but there's no treatment

janice so you're getting a lot of people from mexico now again they're finding out you know they're going to sell the fiercest and now they're realizing that that it creates a family plot in the beginning to be very next and it's starting all over again and what it stood for a close knit families i think it's still lives in the minds of of several families and they come together on a yearly basis on a regular basis to explore space to sit around and talk about york times and good times so i do believe that the neighborhood and what it once stood for the out the newness of the excitement of it and the coming together of it i still think is very

prevalent in in the mind of several census early isn't mined by people on twitter that with pleasure and the thoughtfulness when i think about the filming from the beginning i said under limits got to go on the more from here and when the children to forget that that memory lane an end where i was born and raised on paint street and now more street i want to forget it either it's part of my history today people come from all parts of dallas to hyde park for celebrations they come to remember their roots in the body of a little nuts baker remembers closing apart fiestas by singing last call on the team as a traditional mexican farewell song that expresses the hope to one day return the

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