Recent Photos from Avalos

I ran across these great photo sets on Flickr posted by U-48 which show images from inside the Colony and Plant. Thank you for taking these photos U-48! Colonia Americana – Avalos Avalos – ASARCO unidad Santa Eulalia Avalos Smelter Photojournal

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Ávalos Picnic from Long Ago

Back in December 2010, I posted some pictures that I scanned from negatives that belonged to my grandparents. Here are four more photos showing a picnic in the Ávalos Colony garden. My guess is these were taken in the 1940′s. I love seeing my family in these photos.

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Paseo en la colonia americana de Ávalos

The following 5 videos posted on YouTube on March 6, 2011 by vota48 show the inside of the Colony. It is rather sad to see what was a beautiful neighborhood, now deteriorating. I am so happy this video is available! Gracias vota48! I think this video shows Quinta #21, where my grandparents, mom and aunt [...]

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Ávalos in the News

My thanks to Gabriel Díaz-Montemayor for letting me know about a series of articles about Ávalos in El Diario de Chihuahua. The three articles published on January 1-3, 2010, were written by Esmeralda Guzmán Pando with photos by Octavio Romero. They currently can be found at: Ávalos, perdido en el Tiempo, Part 1 Ávalos, perdido [...]

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Avalos Manager’s Residence

From the 1986 Reunion, Elena Navarro sent this photo taken in front of the Manager’s Residence in the Colony. From left to right: J. Elena Navarro, Charles Hardy, Catherine A. Thomas, Katherine B. Alvarado & Antonieta Bremer.

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The Colony on Cinco de Mayo

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Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

My daughter asked me to write a few lines about my life growing up in Avalos, Chihuahua. My name is Florence “Flossy” Wilson Delgado and I was born in El Paso, Texas in 1938. Two weeks after my birth, my mother, Catherine Morris Wilson and my sister Catherine “Catina” Wilson Shupe and I were on [...]

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