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By TON YINDELL The Brownsville HeraldBrownsville resident Juan Pineda Garza can remember every Charrolt;rDays Fiesta all the way back to the beginning in 1938.“This is getting better and better every year,” Pineda-Garza said Saturday as mariachi music filled the air and float after float, school after school and group after group marched down Elizabeth Street in the Grand International Parade — the accent mark to Charro DaysFiesta 2000.“I am glad the city has preserved this great tradition.” the 80-year-old Pineda-Garza, said.“I participated in the first parade,” he said. “I wore a charro outfit and paraded along the street singing those songs we all knew atthat time.”Pineda said that he, along with some World War I veterans were in the first parade.“Since then,” he added, “I have watched every single parade held here. It’s great to have something like this, which anybody of any age can really enjoy.”Saturday’s parade, the last of three held during Charro Days, drew tens of thousands of people from throughout the Rio Grande Valley and across the United States and Mexico.The smell of fajita tacos, corn-on-the-cob, hot dogs and hamburgers, filled the air as hundreds of hawkers talked along the street selling their *oods.
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 27, 2000
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