My husband's great-grandfather came from Jalisco to El Paso in 1895. My husband was born in El Paso in 1935 on Overland Street. He last lived in the Alamitos Projects in the Segundo Barrio until his folks divorced in 1947 and his mother moved them to California. My husband remembers going with his grandpa "Tata" across to Juarez on the streetcar to do all those things that some of you remember doing. I told my husband about the discussions here, and I asked him if he had ever had atole. "He said, of course", and he started singing a little song about it: -----pasen a tomar atole, todos los que estan pasando, que el alole esta muy bueno, y pronto se esta 'cabando---- Then he went into a military like cadence, and some of the rest of the song goes: -----rana, rana, cola de rana---- -----el zapato de Augustin se los puso el chapulin----- Does that ring a bell with anyone? My husband also just brought up a book from our library. I had forgotten about it. We have most of the books already mentioned. Does anyone have "A Mexican American Childhood--A Place in El Paso" by Gloria Lopez-Stafford. It brought back so many memories for my husband. Anyone who grew up in El Paso would enjoy it. Emilie Garcia Port Orchard, WA
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