"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 "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 at the end of Pecos Street next to the Bessemer Ditch where she used to wade with her brother, when they were children"
"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"
"Debbie Baca Duran on the front porch at the end of Pecos Street where she used to live"
"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."
"Emily "Chata" Lopez at Adeline Baca Lopez's (her mother) current home on the Eastside, Pueblo"
"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.
Margaret Gomez Santos on Pecos in front of her old family home next to the Bessemer ditch.
"We used to dance and play... We lived on 111 Roselawn."
