Jaramillo_Alcario (Albuquerque, NM)
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Audio
Publication Date
7-21-1984
Recommended Citation
Atrisco Oral History Project (MSS 565), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.
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Born in 1903 in El Arenal [part of the old Merced de Atrisco]. Family genealogy. There were very few houses in Atrisco when he was a young boy. The elections for commissioners of La Merced, working in the ranch of David Armijo Sr. Dichos and the differences in how people behave, especially there is no respect from young people to elders and to the rules of life. The houses and women plastering the walls 'las enjarradoras'. Women used to be in charge o remodeling their houses as men used to be out of the house working in La Borrega. He went to a small school without name in small house in the area. Antes hacían fiestas para toda la gente. People were more religious, the processions and visiting churches on food during the lent time. Los Penitentes, funeral practices, carrying guns at that time. Las curanderas, working with horses. His memories growing in Atrisco, no electricity but using oil lamps to light the houses. Going to bailes as a young man. Life was hard as the wages were very low. He used to work for a rancher named Cipriano Sánchez who paid him $.04 a day. Las parteras [midwives]; his grandmother was a partera. Collecting wood in el Monte to burn in the stoves and fix the meals. Stores in Atrisco, and people's religious ways in Atrisco: los santos y rezos. Simple ways to amuse themselves as children playing with little boxes and string reels as they did not have toys due to poverty when he was a child.