Thank you for the various mentions of the various establishments, especially the historical ones. While I don’t know my hometown well, my family swears by Chico’s Tacos!
As a NYC ex-pat transplanted to El Paso for a faculty job more than a decade ago, I am surprised by the mention of patriotism without explanation. The predominant type of patriotism I observe in this multi-cultural city is more like the patriotism of New Yorkers than shallow jingoism. This is a city of people who immigrated here because they value our constituion's promises of inclusiveness, fairness, and decency, and are disappointed when we fail to live up to that vision. This seems particularly true of the veterans I meet at the university and around town.
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My home town of El Paso is best described by Cosmo Kramer during an episode of "Seinfeld." After George Costanza had accidentally run over a squirrel, the vet to whom George took the squirrel at the behest of George's girlfriend had to have special small surgical tools flown into to Manhattan from El Paso. At the time, Kramer was holding a talk show inside his apartment using some props from the Merv Griffin show that Kramer found in a dumpster. And when George mentions the surgical tools, Kramer says, "I spent a month in El Paso one night."
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Looks lovely, but can't imagine going there alone as a woman.
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I haven't forgotten. Women deserve more than "violence has declined."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_homicides_in_Ciudad_Juárez
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Everyone should visit at least once. And not for 36 hours. I would include a drive to Alpine and Marfa, and give yourself a week or ten days.
Science types can add MacDonald observatory.
And don't miss the pretty campus of UTEP....with it's Nepalese architecture.
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hi @priceofcivilization. perhaps you should have spent more time on campus. 1) It's the "McDonald Observatory."
2) "It's" is a contraction for "it is" and you should have used "its" in your sentence "...with it's (sic) Nepalese architecture."
3) RE: UTEP "The inspiration for its architecture is credited to Kathleen Worrell, wife of the School's first dean, who was fascinated with an 88-page photo-essay on Bhutan that appeared in the April 1914 issue of National Geographic magazine.
The article, titled "Castles in the Air," recounted the travels across Bhutan of British political officer and engineer John Claude White. Accompanying the article were 74 of White's photographs—among the first ever published of the ancient and isolated kingdom."
Oh, I get it. Bhutan, Nepal, what's the difference? Sorta like Houston, Dallas, what's the difference?
Nearby New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, deserves more than a mention of a race track. There is the Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks National Monument, great hiking opportunities as well as fabulous views of the entire Mesilla Valley. Also, the incomparable White Sands National Monument is over the mountains and about 40 or so miles away. There is so much more in a state many people don't know exists or think is part of our neighbors to the south.
PS: If you do go to Mesilla to stalk Billy the Kid's haunts, do not, that is DO NOT, miss the Double Eagle and its Award-winning Margaritas.
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The article is about El Paso, not about New Mexico. Thanks to Texas' lack of legal gambling (other than the state lottery), Texans have to come to New Mexico to gamble. Thank you, Texans, for your contributions to the New Mexico state budget.
Fifty miles west from El Paso and Juarez is Mesilla where William Bonney (aka Billy the Kid) occasionally hung out and escaped to the caves on Picacho Mountain when his pranks became too broad to bear.
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William Bonney was a pseudonym. His most likely real name was Henry McCarty. Bill actually was not any worse (in terms of his crimes) than most of the people in authority who ran the Wild West.
Great omissions: the financial disaster that is the El Paso baseball stadium and the disregard for the history and culture of residents of South Central El Paso. The city of El Paso has spent millions of dollars defending in court its Bait-and-switch practices and it's attempt to destroy Duranguito, with its diverse historucal treasure.
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I have spent great winter evenings in Terlingua and Boquillas. The changes are happening. some good and some bad.