The El Western Motel hosted Country Star Johnny Cash. [Photo by Joe Hermosillo]By JUAN MO-TIME
Staff Writer
BROWNSVILLE, TX - Flush with pesos collected from sales taxes during the recent Charro Days festival, city officials here have taken the cash and hired a construction crew to remodel the old El Western Motel on the southern end of Paredes Line Road.
"We're spending the money in a good and honest way," said a source close to City Hall. Actually, it was Tony "La Pollera" Esparza, a waiter who works at an all-night taqueria across from the municpal building. "I remember El Western well, yes. Ha ha."
The El Western was built in the late-1930s by a Mexican drug pusher. According to the Feds, this was the first time money was laundered in Brownsville. In the ensuing years, the El Western became a refuge for well-hipped prostitutes and nattily-attired pimps and drunken customers from the entire Rio Grande Valley. At its height, its rooms offered shag carpeting, water beds, hot plates and blankets that carried a Palomino's smiling face.
Angela Ferro Carril, its original front desk clerk, still lives in Brownsville. "I know all the secrets," she told this reporter during an afternoon chit-chat at the Ultima Cumbia Nursing Home on East Boca Chica Boulevard. "If you think today's local politicians fuck around, you should've have seen it back then. It was what I called the Burlington-Northern train special on weekend nights."
About the renovation, she said, "What for? It's history and they should let it die. What are they spending on it?"
Our source at City Hall places the investment at between $200 or $300.
No news on the water beds, however...
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Editor's Note: Charro Days revenues reached new heights, bringing the city an estimated $1,100 in new dollars.
10 comments:
History should be kepted and treasured. That my friends is a good cause. A plaque should be posted in front of the hotel.
Hey, get rid of the hot dog picture and the naked woman, where did she come from, Stilletos, just curious.
About the hot dog and naked gal: We do not edit Life. It is all offered as it is, cold and mineral...
This has nothing to do with life, naked women and hot dogs that look like someone regurgited is very unsavory. (The woman is okay but maybe in another setting)
Come on your explanation is wishy washy.
Our explanation is not wishy-washy; it is more wishy than washy. On that, we agree. The hot dog stays in the picture. If a hot dog bothers you, well, what are you going to say - or think - when we post a photo of a taco? We can hardly wait...
Let me suggest something, leave food out of the picture. The women I can tolorate, but the damn hot dog looks raunchy as hell, pardon, the language. That thing looks gross.
As for the women, maybe doing another posed would be more enticing, as it was posted looks sicking.
By the way, leaves tacos out of the equation, I would rather eat them, than seeing some grotesque picture about them.
The gross hot dog is gone. Tacos are never grotesque; they are simply part and parcel of the unique border culture. Food fuels us, so that is why we employ a food writer - Ricardo Klement.
May I suggest a better photographer. When dealing with food.
Photography, like chasing women, is all about the "eye," and every single one of us has a pair of different ones. We say: just enjoy the Blog. We hesitate to ask, but what exactly is your taste in photography - Mother Hubbard or Angelina Jolie, Leon Spinks or Muhammad Ali, ham or eggs?
Maybe Angelina Jolie, I said Maybe, food in pictures is not such a good idea, and I agree with Scorpio and Bronco Billie. Leave the eating stuff to nutrionist, not photographers.
You can't keep putting walls between you and the rest of the world. Enjoy your life. It's too short to worry about the things that worry you...- Editor
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