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Santa Ana Fiesta, San Luis
Cenaida Roybal Manzanares (right) and Francisca Manzanares Quintana, her sister in-law, near rides at the Fiesta, 1950
March 18, 2019
A carnival in San Luis
Carlos Lopez looks up at ferris wheel at a carnival in San Luis, probaby the Santa Ana Fiesta, 1950
Dice game at a carnival
Carlos Lopez (back row center) watches a dice game at a carnival in San Luis, 1950
A pancake race
Women participants in the annual Alamosa Colorado pancake race, 1958. One woman, dressed as Aunt Jemima, is either African American or in blackface.
Ramon del Castillo, 2001
Ramon Del Castillo, a professor of Chicano studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver and a well known Chicano poet, plays hand drums with an unidentified musician group at the Santa Anna Fiesta in San Luis (Costilla County)
The R & R Market
(Romero’s Market) located in San Luis (Costilla County), 2005; said to be the oldest business in Colorado, founded in 1857
The J.M. Olguín Mercantile owned by Jesús María Olguín in San Luis, 1910
The J.M. Olguín Mercantile owned by Jesús María Olguín in San Luis, 1910
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