Eloy and Ray Calderon Quote
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:32:39+00:00“My dad had a tavern . . . on the corner of San Pedro and Roselawn . . . that used to be my Dad’s dance hall and bar. It used to be called the Oasis Café. When I started school, I was living there in 1935. They used to pick me up right there in front of the railroad. There was a railroad that went from Blende through Salt Creek and behind CF&I. Used to go to the zinc smelter over in Blende.”
Photograph of Eloy and Ray Calderon
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:32:28+00:00Eloy and Ray Calderon
on San Juan in front of their old family home, where their mother once used the front porch as a neighborhood liquor store
Jimmie Arellano Quote
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:32:14+00:00“There was a railroad track bridge that went over the black water… at that time the mill was going so strong that the water was running real fast. If you fell in there, you were going for a ride.”
Photograph of Jimmie Arellano
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:31:56+00:00Jimmie Arellano at the Templo La Hermosa del CLADIC at 1516 Roselawn Road, where his mother used to spend her days preparing food for weekly gatherings at the church.
Arthur Luna quote
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:34:13+00:00Art Luna talks about his experience playing football in high school.
Photograph of Arthur Luna
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:34:01+00:00Art Luna at Olguins, which at one time was a grocery and bar/dance hall
Lad and Gerald Flores Quote
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:33:48+00:00“There was always a radio in the house. When we worked in the farm fields, we had a little radio with us. Grandma had a little radio and it was always in Spanish.”
Photograph of Lad and Gerald Flores
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:33:36+00:00Lad and Gerald Flores at Flores Grocery store, which is currently owned by Lad who lives next door in the same home where his parents once lived.
Eloy Arellano Quote
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:35:54+00:00“We were too old for Boy Scouts so, at that time, we gave it up. At that time was the lettuce strike, you know, the grape strikes started. So it got real active here in Pueblo, so we joined that… And, we, marched to Denver… we used to picket farms.”
Photograph of Eloy Arellano
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:35:42+00:00“Eloy Arellano at an overlook off of La Junta Road with the mill (where he worked for over 30 years) in the background”
Frank Orona Quote
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:35:29+00:00“I was lucky at 16, they (at CF&I) were hiring kids and women. The war was on – World War II… in 44. I went to Central for a couple years. the minute I got to be 16 – zoom – I come to work in the mill. My birthday is November 8th. On November 13th, I started working in the mill.”
Frank Orona
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T04:35:18+00:00“Frank Orona at his home on San Juan Street, just off of Santa Rosa”