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aka El Azteca and El Ranchero
Laredo, Webb County, TX
Listed: 05/21/2003
Barrio Azteca is one of the oldest and most intact residential neighborhoods in the city of Laredo with buildings dating from the 1870s and representing nearly every major architectural type and style that has appeared on the border since that time. Originally a ranching district known as El Ranchero on the eastern outskirts of the Spanish Colonial town site, the neighborhood grew as an extension of Laredo when it expanded from its traditional boundaries in the 1870s and 1880s. Barrio Azteca's earliest inhabitants were descendants of Spanish colonists who began settlement efforts along the lower Rio Grande in the mid-eighteenth century. As Laredo and its economic prospects expanded in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, former residents of downriver communities at San Ygnacio and Dolores made their homes in Barrio Azteca. At the same time, immigrants from the Mexican interior contributed to the growth of the community and provided much of the labor for the newly arrived international railroad (1881) and related industries. By the turn of the century, El Ranchero was a thriving community of homes and small businesses populated almost exclusively by Mexican and Mexican American residents.
During this period people began building homes north of Iturbide Street in the area that became known as El Azteca for a neighborhood theater of that name. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution brought a tremendous influx of new immigrants to American border towns like Laredo and their numbers increased the population of El Ranchero/Barrio Azteca such that by 1920, it was a fully developed, densely populated neighborhood. Many of the new arrivals who fled Mexico were well-educated professionals and merchants who built businesses and established small private schools in their adopted community. By 1930, the neighborhood's residents included doctors and teachers, ranchers and merchants as well as grocers, tortilla venders and railroad laborers.
Its building stock was as diverse as its populace. The first housing types in the area were probably simple jacales, one room thatched roof dwellings supported by mesquite poles and chinked with mud. These simple dwellings provided basic housing for families on both sides of the border well into the 20th century but none are known to survive in Barrio Azteca. The earliest known extant properties in the neighborhood are flat-roofed, rectangular, linear plan dwellings built of quarried sandstone. They display distinctive elements of borderlands architecture, derivatives of Spanish Colonial design adapted to the frontier conditions along the lower Rio Grande. Later properties combined popular "American" styles of the late-19th and early 20th centuries with traditional forms and building techniques.
Barrio Azteca is distinctive for its setting, layout and landscape features. The neighborhood is situated on a high bluff overlooking the Rio Grande which forms its southern boundary as well as the international boundary between the United States and Mexico. Arroyo Zacate, a steep-walled spring-fed creek that provided fresh water to its inhabitants and livestock, defines its eastern boundary. The district is distinguished from typical American neighborhoods of the same period by its narrow streets, shallow building setbacks, small front yards and intensive development with two or more dwellings occupying a single lot in some areas.
Cut off from the historic center of Laredo, Plaza de San Augustin, by IH-35, Barrio Azteca has retained much of its late- 19th and early 20th century historic fabric. It is the last surviving remnant of what was once a thriving commercial and residential Mexican American neighborhood. It is nominated to the National Register at the local level of significance under Criterion A as a good representation of early 20th century community planning efforts along the South Texas Rio Grande corridor and for its associations with Laredo's historic Hispanic community whose traditional borderlands lifestyles are reflected in the building patterns of the district. It is also nominated under Criterion C for its architectural contributions to the city's historic building fabric.
Even before teenager Karina Pasian signed to Def Jam records, the stellar singer was already making a name for herself. From her winning performance on Star Search in 2003 to singing at the White House last June during Black Music Month, this New York City chanteuse has been paying her professional dues since she was a toddler.
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Ord Military Community held its annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Ord Military Chapel Friday, Dec. 8. The ceremony included musical performances, Christmas carols and a visit from Santa Claus, who arrived on a Presidio of Monterey Fire Department engine. After the ceremony, community members enjoyed cookies, hot chocolate and pictures with Santa.
Police Chief Collins and Assistant Police Chief Kohlmeier present at the Lester Public Library, Two Rivers, Wisconsin
BW Community Day Celebration before the Baldwin Wallace vs Bluffton football game. The community and families from around the area turn out to see the best of the university.
EBC “takeover” of 110 Livingston St.: Students Luis Marcial, Martin Nieves consult with teacher Trish Taylor
Adam Little, 5, from Mason, stretches his arms during Gymnastics class at the Mason Community Center on Wednesday, November 30, 2011. The Enquirer/Leigh Taylor
Caption: 1953. Young Community Chest.
Citation: Mennonite Community Photograph Collection, 1947-1953. Children's Hobbies. HM4-134 Box 2 Photo 238-8. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.
United Way and GMC built a Gametime playground in nine of the cities where a Monday night football game was held.
Work on the design seemed to stall after the group realized they were running out of paint. Despite the setback, they managed to make use of what they had left to finish the design. Photo: David Derong/Iowa State Daily
April 16, 2016 - Sweet Escapes: A Chocolate Affair to Benefit Community Link of Charlotte, NC. (Andy Majors / Majors Media).
Minister Desmond Lee with Skyline II @ Bukit Batok team, recipients of the Singapore's Friendly Neighbourhood Awards 2023.
Delightful! During an anti fascist protest rally in Chelmsford, involving most aspects of the community, including young families and older people, against a small group of extremists who invated the city, the police provided excellent care. This sums up the spirit (it was a hot day). (Sorry about the picture quality - it was a chance shot and the aperture was too narrow and I had to do some enhancements and noise reduction later...)
FAO field mission in Turkana county, Kakuma refugee camp - Kenya, June 2018
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Community Boating, on the Charles River, seen from the Longfellow Bridge. It's the nation’s oldest public sailing center, incorporated in 1946.
.I'm a member of Lions International, Mt. Carmel, PA, USA. Membership includes .
1.35 million worldwide!! Our club has 40 members. Our signature event is the Holiday Meal On Wheels program. We cook, package and deliver 200 meals to the needy people all over the community on 5 major holidays.
Landscape Gardening during the Singapore Garden Festival 2016 at Bayfront Plaza, Gardens by the Bay.
West Point, Monrovia, Liberia - Dec 18, 2013: When citizens face legal challenges, the lack of legitimacy, affordability, accessibility and timeliness of the formal justice system often prevents any feasible recourse. Extensive bureaucratic red tape coupled with transportation and legal costs, lawyer fees, and opportunity costs of foregone work make the justice system not only physically but also financially unavailable to many.
The judiciary and police were recently ranked as the most corrupt set of institutions in the country by the government itself – which not only undermines any sense that wrong-doing will be punished but has hollowed out trust in public processes more broadly. As one citizen pointed out to us recently: “There is simply no justice for the poor.”
Thomas Tweh, a community leader in the West Point neighborhood, had an innovative idea to resolve these justice issues at the local level. His plan was not to avoid or override the formal justice system, but to collaborate with the police and commissioner’s office to refer cases downwards from the courts to a community dispute resolution mechanism run by volunteer mediators. Photo by Morgana Wingard
Description: A young man paints on an easel at the Community Learning Center, 609 North Paca Street. Sponsored by the Model Cities Agency, this program opened in September of 1970 and was administered by Jesuit priests.
Date: 1970
Source: Model Urban Neighborhood Demonstration (MUND) Collection
Location: Special Collections, Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore
The picture I took portrays what my community looks like to me. My environment and people around me are making me scared for the future. I don't know what to expect and the best way I could portray that was with a picture of a demonic entity hiding in the dark. I'm scared that something unexpected like that will pop up in my life and I will be really scared to do anything about it. The subject in the picture is myself. The idea came to me from this really old TV show I used to watch a lot as a child. It had a villain that looked a lot like myself in this picture. I used to be horrified of him! So I thought the best way to express my fear of my scary community would be to show one of my major fears from the past. My light source in this picture was the candle I'm holding. I wanted my face to be the focus so I put the candle near my face to give it that creepy effect.
Portfolio: This is another picture that I'm really proud of. Unlike the tower picture, this one is solely focused on the light in my hand rather than the angle. It took a long time to get a decent picture while holding a candle because sometimes the reflection caused issues. This also required a lot of effort before finally coming together.