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.

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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

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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