Ávalos Colony Pool

The Ávalos Colony pool looked to be a central meeting place for families and friends throughout the existence of the Colony. Before the time of my family video in 1939, through the 1950′s, to the 1970′s and even at the 1994 Ávalos reunion (a year after the plant closed), so many employees, their families and [...]

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The Austin Family…A Few More Words

My cousin, Catherine Austin Thomas, sent me a lovely write-up about her parents, John Fuller Austin, Jr. and Nellie Wilson. She begins, “My father was born in 1896 in Murray, Utah while his father was working at the smelter there. His father, a Yale grad, had sense to have the doctor sign a letter so [...]

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The Austin’s – An ASARCO Family

A remembrance of life in the Colony by Catherine Austin Thomas, who lived in the Colony from 1931-1948. Long ago and far away, I was born the second child to Nellie Wilson Austin and John Fuller Austin, Jr. on July 8, 1927. I was born at the ASARCO Colony in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. I [...]

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Kids in the Colony

These wonderful photos are courtesy of my cousin Catherine Austin Thomas, who lived in the Colony from 1931-1948. Of this first photograph she says, “My back is toward the camera – Grace Austin is next to me. Sybil Bonnell is standing. She was L.B. and his wife’s niece whom they always cared for. I think [...]

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