Throwback Thursday: Cinco de Mayo in L.A. We dug through the archives and found a few snapshots
Throwback Thursday: Cinco de Mayo in L.A. We dug through the archives and found a few snapshots of Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Los Angeles over the decades. The information we have for these images is limited, but they offer a glance at our city’s past. We start on Olvera Street in 1962 and travel back through time, from festivities at City Hall for an overflowing crowd in 1945 to musicians performing in 1947. We don’t have much information on the following photo from 1951, but I included it because I loved the action and energy of the moment. The next one is from 1972. Students are putting finishing touches on a 25-by-5-foot mural on Mexico’s history at Compton’s Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. They spent three months researching it and 13 painting it. That’s the mural behind them. Pretty impressive.The final image is from 1975. Bishop Juan Arzube conducts a Cinco de Mayo Mass in the courtyard of Mount St. Mary’s College. – @mmaltaislaPhotos by Los Angeles Times -- source link
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