Showing posts with label Rene Torres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rene Torres. Show all posts
Thursday, July 6, 2017

1954 ~ Brownsville Firemen "Bring home the bacon"

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by Rene Torres We are the Champions In front of 2,000 spectators, a Brownsville six-man team out maneuvered their Valley opponents to br...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

1926 ~ Olvera Shoe Repair Shop: Mending Soles

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By Rene Torres Today, under new ownership, the building that was once owned and that housed the Olvera Shoe Repair Shop is going through...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

1965 Golden Eagles High School Baseball Team

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Abner Doubleday: Inventor of Baseball was in Brownsville, Texas

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1917 Ft Brown 3rd Calvary vs 64th Motor Company (photo) Daily Ranchero 23 October 1969 clipping and inset of Abner Doubleday While t...
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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Texas Southmost College Korean Veterans

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Texas Southmost College Korean Veterans...photo taken during a Charros Days Parade in the early 1950s.  Seated in the back are: Pat Tamay...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Brownsville Cotton Carnival: “Fats Domino” on stage

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"Cool Cat" Martinez Makes an Apperance by Rene Torre s Thanks to the Chamber of Commerce and the contributions of local mer...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

1934 ~ Pan American Airways Aviators

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reprinted here from South Padre Parade courtesy of Rene Torres
Sunday, June 21, 2015

1939 Life Saving Tamales story & photo

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Life Saving Tamales - 1939 Brownsville Market Square Plaza by Carl Mydans LIFE magazine.  Colorized by Bronsbi Estacion. She came to ...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

1943 Superman story by Rene Torres

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Local Superman’s leap foiled 1943 June 30 ad The “man of steel” first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938—and soon after, it enter...