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Our second and last day here found us walking the streets
(oh, wait, that’s Laredo) of downtown El Paso as Sharon led us through a
self-guided tour. But even before that we emerged into the arts plaza to find,
to my delight, a line up of a half dozen vintage cars, ranging from the early
1940s to 1964.
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| This 1958 Impala was pristine |
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| But for everyone, I think, this 1939 Chevrolet went beyond, to a veritable work of art |
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| Throughout, note the elaborately engraved brightwork |
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| The airbrushed images echoed the art inside the museum by both Enriquez and Jimenez, among others |
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And from there, we wandered through the downtown with a bit
more information than yesterday. As it turns out, much of today’s downtown was
designed by the architect Henry C. Trost. He apparently apprenticed with Adler
and Sullivan in Chicago before coming west and the influence of the Chicago
school is strong in many of his buildings show that influence, especially the
Mills Building, the Plaza Hotel and especially the State National Bank.
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| Tour guide Sharon |
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| A typical vernacular streetscape |
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| This simply shows the diversity of the city's architecture, traditional, modern and contemporary |
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| Hotel El Paso del Norte, by Trost. Preview ate my full-on image. Gotta stop being lazy and use PS |
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| Another Trost building, the Popular Department Store |
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| The Kress Building by Edward Sibbert, the company architect. This is said to be his favorite along with the 5th Avenue store in Manhattan |
We also managed, through sheer will, to experience the
city’s two most notable restaurants, Café Central, for a relatively light lunch
and Anson 11 for a quite notable dinner.
Below a couple of random images:
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