Debbie Baca Duran Quote
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T03:00:22+00:00“We all played ball… It was awesome. Those baseball games were crazy. Sometimes they’d start at four in the afternoon and go some time until it’d get dark at 8:00… your older sisters played ball… you passed on your gloves to your siblings… We were called Flores Grocer. Like I said, it was a community and everybody just kind of helped out”
Vera Estrada quote
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T03:02:19+00:00Vera Estrada quote
“The mill used to dispose of the slang into, what we called, the black waters… and the slag would actually light up all of Salt Creek. There were no indoor bathrooms. They had outhouses. and in the evening, everyone would wait for the slag to be thrown and you could see the neighbors scurrying, running to the outhouse before the light of the slag went out.”
Vera Estrada
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T03:02:31+00:00“Vera Estrada at the end of Pecos Street next to the Bessemer Ditch where she used to wade with her brother, when they were children”
Photograph of Vera Hernandez Esquibel
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T03:03:38+00:00“Vera Esquibel in El Paso in front of the old home of her parents where her own mother passed away 20 minutes after giving birth to Vera”
Photograph of Debbie Baca Duran
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:58:24+00:00“Debbie Baca Duran on the front porch at the end of Pecos Street where she used to live”
Emily “Chata” Lopez Quote
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T03:01:17+00:00“I was born in Salt Creek in a chicken coop…next to Roselawn Road. My mom had me in a chicken coop… where chickens laid eggs, where the chickens live. She had her midwife there.”
Photograph of Emily “Chata” Lopez
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T03:01:34+00:00“Emily “Chata” Lopez at Adeline Baca Lopez’s (her mother) current home on the Eastside, Pueblo”
Margaret Gomez Santos
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:51:46+00:00“I heard comments as I was growing up that there were stupid people in Salt Creek. There were very smart people in Salt Creek. They were very politically oriented. They were well vested.
Photograph of Margaret Gomez Santos
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:52:00+00:00Margaret Gomez Santos on Pecos in front of her old family home next to the Bessemer ditch.
Adeline Baca Lopez Quote
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:52:58+00:00“We used to dance and play… We lived on 111 Roselawn.”
Photograph of Adeline Baca Lopez
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:53:11+00:00Adeline Baca Lopez at her current home on the Eastside, Pueblo
Photograph of Socorro L. Arellano
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:50:42+00:00Socorro Arellano
at her old home on El Paso Avenue, just off of Placita
Socorro Arellano Quote
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:50:31+00:00“They changed our names . . . in those days they couldn’t pronounce our names, so they told me my name would be Cora . . . I thought that was my name until I went and got my driver’s license and they wanted my birth certificate. Is that my name?”
Photograph of Catherine Ruedas, Denise Vargas, and Edna Vargas
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:49:34+00:00Salt Creek residents Catherine Ruedas, Denise Vargas, and Edna Vargas
Ruedas, Vargas, and Vargas Quote
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T02:49:00+00:00“We had our wedding at St. Joseph Hall. It was a big wedding . . . you know, in Salt Creek everyone goes to weddings even if they’re not invited. It’s familia.”
Vera Hernandez Esquibel Quote
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T03:03:27+00:00“In Salt Creek, we had no grass. At Roselawn, the cemetery had the grass so us kids would play on the grass while they would have the service of the dead person. That was our playground. But, we were only allowed to go when there was a funeral.”