Rio Vista Farm- Memories of a Bracero Center

3/10/2017

Rio Vista Farm in Socorro, Texas may be the last standing Bracero processing center in the United States. During its time, thousands of men passed through these buildings on their way to work throughout the United States. In 2016, Rio Vista was named a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Contemporary photos by Yolanda Chavez Leyva. Historic photos courtesy of US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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My father used to tell me about sneaking into this theater to watch movies as a kid in the 1910s. It showed Spanish language films. In the 1940s, it was transformed into a "whites only" theater but that didn't last long. By the 1950s, it was headquarters to the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union, a radical labor organization. Before it closed, it housed the Mine and Mill Bar.

This message is painted on the east side of the old Mission movie theater.

The bell tower of Guardian Angel Catholic Church, built in the 1910s to serve the growing Mexican immigrant community in what was then the "east side" of El Paso.