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Thanks for visiting our website. Our family came from Mexico in the mid 1950's. We were a migrant family up until 1970. While going to school we were enrolled in the Migrant Program. During my 5th grade year I went to the Sam Houston Elementry School. This was the old Brazero building located next to the bridge. The whole area was paved over. The building were painted flat gray and the property had a six foot chainlink fence. It looked like a prison. We had some great teachers but all our desks were from the 1920's.
My father decided to stay in Eagle Pass all year so that we could finish high School. My father took a job as a chainman with a survey company in San Antonio and commuted back and forth on weekends.
Eagle Pass is a small town on the Texas - Mexico border. It is 146 miles south of San Antonio and 56 miles S.E. of Del Rio. Piedras Negras is located across the river in Coahuila, Mexico. The area is hot and humid. In the summer the temperature goes up to 110° and winters are misty and windy.
We grew up living on King Arthur St in the neighborhood called Benavides Heights. When we were small this area was the edge of town. There was a hill near the house were we spent most of the days playing. The streets were unpaved until the mid 70's. There weren't to many houses and we knew all the kid in the neighborhood. About half of the families were migrants and by May all thier houses were boarded up. Families would start returing by October. As teenagers we would go to the rocks that cropped out of the hill were they built the Benavides school. We would sit there and watch all the city lights. You could see all of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras. It looked like one big city.
Migrant classes started at 8:00 a.m. and ended at 5:00 p.m. Our school year went from October until April. As a migrant you weren't expected to graduate so you were given vocational training while in Jr. High. I took two years of carpentry.
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