Barrio businesses
Throughout the history of el Segundo Barrio, the community has been served by small businesses. Both Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans owned restaurants, tortillerías, pharmacies, fruit stores, general stores, bakeries, and other businesses that met the needs of the area’s residents.
In the early years of the twentieth century in downtown El Paso, there were numerous Mexican movie houses, including the Teatro Alcázar and the Teatro Iris. El Teatro Colon was particularly popular, opening in 1919.
Restaurants were perhaps the most popular business in el Segundo Barrio and in the 1910s, the majority of restaurants in the City of El Paso were located in South El Paso.
Today, many local and family-owned businesses continue to cater to the residents of South El Paso.
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Antonia Chávez Serrano, propietaria de el Café Jalisco en el sur de El Paso (tercera de la derecha). El Jalisco ha existido por 60 años. A su derecha se encuentra Lourdes Ramírez, quien continúa trabajando en El Jalisco después de más de treinta años. Foto ca. 1980.
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Antonia Chávez Serrano, now deceased, founder and owner of el Jalisco Café in South El Paso (third from right). El Jalisco has been in existence for almost 60 years. To her left is Lourdes Ramirez, who continues to work at
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