Pebble Hills was financed by a bond approved by voters in 1979 and in 1980 the Ysleta Independent School District opened the school at 11145 Edgemere Boulevard. A new addition was built to Pebble Hills in 1990 and the mascot is the bobcat. Walter Cross was the first principal. Cross taught at Marian Manor Elementary […]
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The El Paso Humane Society: Organized Dec 29, 1947
The El Paso Humane Society was first organized in 1903 in the office of Col. Bean in the Mills Building and they got the city council to pass a law against animal cruelty the next year. The Society, however, wandered astray and was reorganized in 1906 by a group of women including Mrs. W.S. Tilton. […]
Drury Bird: El Paso’s defender of animals
Drury Bird was born in Clarksville, Texas and grew up in El Paso, she was a foster child, being the adopted daughter of the Cass Family. She was adopted by the Cass family after the death of her parents in a car accident. Bird was close to her adopted sister, Marie Cass and the two lived together at 2811 […]
Alice Holder: El Paso Pioneer Business Woman
Alice Holder was named Realtor of the Year in 1973 by the El Paso Realtor Board. Holder got in the real estate business after the death of her husband. Holder worked in a prominent El Paso real estate firm then opened her own reality firm in 1964. Holder first office was at the Executive Center […]
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Ester Varela: El Paso’s First Women Justice of the Peace.
In 1940 Ester Welch Varela was elected the first woman Justice of the Peace in El Paso County, defeating the long-time incumbent, T.H. Apodaca. Varela was reelected in 1942 and retired in 1944. Varela was born in Oklahoma. Joseph Longo EPHS Curator CURATOR@ELPASOHISTORY.COM.
Curator’s Corner: Early Presidents of the EPCHS
Doing research on an exhibit for the Society on the past presidents of the El Paso Historical Historical Society, I found a newspaper article that talks about the early presidents of the society. It was published on April 23,1964 in the El Paso Herald-Post. The Society has the original photo that was used in the article. […]
Curator Corner: Dedication of J.M. Hanks High School
While I was archiving some material into our Pass Perfect Archive Database, I found the Dedication and Open House program for J.M. Hanks High School on 2001 Lee Trevino Dr. The high school was established in 1978 and it started off as a junior high school. The first graduating class was in 1982. The actual building […]
Harry Mitchell Brewery
Many people don’t know about El Paso’s rich beer history. Take a look at some photos we have of El Paso’s prominent post-prohibition brewery owned by Harry Mitchell, as well as others of beer aficionados around town.
2016 Hall of Honor Banquet
Here is a selection of photos from our 56th Annual Hall of Honor Banquet which honored Luis Jimenez, Michael Hudson, Holly Thurston Cox and Paco Jordan.