By Renee Ruelas/Sun-News – LCSun-News.com – Photo Jett Loe/Sun-News Cisco Martinez and Gure Martinez were participants in the Zoot Suit contest at the Zoot Suit Pachanga last year. This year’s event was held Saturday in Klein Park. The 2nd annual...
By Daryl H. Miller/Contact Reporter – LATimes.com – Photo Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times – He holds out the sleek, black fedora for closer inspection. It is at once reserved and dandyish, with a brim that sweeps up in back into what look like...
By Research.Pomona.edu – Image Not Credited Pachuco and Pachuca are terms coined in the 1940s to refer to Mexican American men and women who dressed in zoot suits or zoot suit-influenced attire. Though there is no definite origin of the word Pachuco, one theory...
By Evan Andrews – History.com – Photo Library of Congress The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of violent clashes during which mobs of U.S. servicemen, off-duty police officers and civilians brawled with young Latinos and other minorities in Los Angeles. The...
By Ezra Rodriguez – Borderzine.com – Photo Ezra Rodriguez/Borderzine.com El Paso, Texas – He stood tall and proud next to his newly polished red 1937 Chevy Deluxe Coupe, the feather on his wool felt tonda gliding through the cold spring breeze, his lisa...
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