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http://blip.tv/file/15484

this one is full of relatives from Jalisco, Zacatecas and Chihuahua

joseph

ps: you'll have to have Windows Media Player to view. . .sorry Mac folks,

but if you have QuickTime you can try this: http://blip.tv/file/15482,
but when I checked it the audio wasn't working and the picture was
incredibly small.

Hi Alicia:

I could have written your message "verbatim" about the Puentes Brothers
Store in San Jose!
I lived in San Jose's Alum Rock area from 1951 to 1956 and visited the
store, with my parents, just about every week-end. The "Guadalajara" store
was our second choice.
Your message has brought back a lot of happy and pleasant memories...I
attended Grant School on Empire St. between 10th and 11th streets. I
believe the school is no longer there. I also attended Roosevelt Jr. High
on Santa Clara and 20th St. on the east side of Coyote Creek. That school
was turned into a park. The last school I attended in San Jose was James
Lick High, on Alum rock Ave. and White Road.

Thank you for bringing back so many happy memories of my youth.
"Recordar es volver a vivir"

John Gonzalez
Wildomar, CA.
1gnzlz@verizon.net

in that video you remember the second or third picture was of me when I
was 3 years old with my arm bandaged? The next picture is titled "my
little butt." Well when I was 3 I was working (playing) in my dad's (his
brothers and my grandfather's) store right there on 10th st. Puentes
Bros. Inc. and I reached up on the conveyor belt for a nice warm freshly
made tortilla and got my pinky finger tip (which looks like a little
butt) chopped off. A week later I went back and found my pinky tip on
the floor way in the corner of the store. . .hmmm, good thing it didn't
get mixed in with a tortilla huh, Can you imagine the horror story of
someone finding my finger in a package of tortillas. Well it never made
it but onto the floor and I found it and we gave it a proper burial
complete with prayers and a ceremony in the back yard. At that time we
lived on 18th street on the corner of 18th and ???well I can't remember
the cross street but right where 18th gets cut off from the freeway.

joseph

ps: Well if you were going to the store when you were a little girl then
if you saw a little boy running around the store sometimes then it might
have been me. Then again it could easily have been one of my many
cousins. You never know but you and I might have met or as little kids
looked at each other way long ago.

Alicia Carrillo wrote:

>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Joseph Puentes
>To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
>Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 3:26:40 PM
>Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Another Homevideo
>
>
>http://blip.tv/file/15484
>
>Joseph,
>
>I just had a chance to view this video and it brought back many long forgotten memories. In one of the photos on this video there is a Puentes Bros store. Is that the store that was formerly on 10th street and Hedding in San Jose or near 10th street. I recall that mom or dad would ask me to go with my sister Lucy who had to drive across town to buy tortillas & pan dulce, chiles or other condiments that only Puentes Bros had. This was the only local Mexican market in town back in the late 50's early 60's. When the new mexican markets such as Ozuna's and La Guadalajara were opened they took much business from Puentes Bros.
>
>I recall that every Sunday after mass, our outing was to Ozuna's to buy tortillas, pan dulce and Menudo and other Mexican delicacies, winter time was tamales. We would run into everyone else from church who also made it a habit to go to Ozuna's, the new local Mexican hangout. When the new kid on the block arrived mom would say the tortillas were better than Puentes Bros. But Puentes Brothers had been good enough for oh so many years.
>
>Thanks for helping to bring up these old times and memories of San Jose.
>
>Alicia

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