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LA CARRERA PANAMERICANA 1950-1954
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A.B. POE y La Carrera Panamericana 1950
-Las fábricas de autos
patrocinaban equipos lujosos, así como también
las empresas privadas
como A.B. Poe Motor
Company de El Paso.
Venían de todo el mundo
para participar en esta
gran carrera.
Después de cuatro años,
los funcionarios mexicanos cancelaron la carrera
debido a que los pilotos,
el equipo, los empleados
y espectadores empezaron a morir a un ritmo
alarmante.
Mickey Thompson mató
a cinco espectadores cuando chocó su auto en
1953.
La carrera estuvo inactiva durante décadas y
luego fue reiniciada en
1988 para volver a revivir la historia El hermano
mayor de Dick Poe, Alton
‘Tito’ Poe asistió a las cinco carreras mexicanas
mano ‘Tito’, justo
como lo captaron los
fotógrafos hace medio
siglo. En 1951, una
de las primeras competencias en las que
participó Bill Sterling,
el piloto de la nueva
Hemi Saw de Chrysler,
se colocó como líder
de los participantes estadounidenses. Llegó
detrás de un par de Ferraris, patrocinados por
las fábricas. Los piloy por lo menos en dos tos italianos eran imocasiones se encargó del pactantes, disminuían
equipo que era propiedad
de este negocio familiar, de la carrera para perA.B. Poe Motor Compa- mitir que los tres autos
ny en El Paso. Hasta hoy,
Dick Poe recuerda a su cruzando la línea de la
querido y divertido hermeta, recuerda Poe.
DICK POE FAMILY OF DEALERSHIPS SINCE 1928
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Mr. Marty Robins In El
Paso Texas 1960
-Out in the West Texas
town of El Paso, I fell in
love with a Mexican girl.
in Rosa’s Cantina.. So
runs the song “El Paso,”
which Marty Robbins,
who came to El Paso today, has made the most
warbled ballad in the
world. “I’ve never been
myself,” the handsome
are always asking me if
it’s a real bar in Juarez
or El Paso.” The Chamber of Commerce, in appreciation of the fact that
Marty has sold 3,500,000
records of the song, presented a real live beautiful “Felina” to the composer today at the famed
International Club. She is
Cira Serros,
“I’ve never
been able to
El Paso model who also
welcomed King Baudouin of the Belgians to this
west Texas town a year
ago. Cira, of course, is not
Stars In El Paso
Marty Robbins 1960
wicked at all, but the
21-year-old beauty could
charm a cowboy off his
best horse. It was all in
fun and not only enlivened
the luncheon but added to
the immense publicity the
song has created. Robbins
has visited El Paso before.
On a previous trip he got
the inspiration for the
song that is now No. 1 on
the Billboard and Cash
Box polls.
He was driving into El
Paso on the Carlsbad
highway at night and
there, spread before him,
were the twinkling lights
of El Paso and Juarez.
“That view inspired me,”
Mr. Robbins said. “The
words came to me right
then -a song about the old
town of El Paso.
Columbia wouldn’t
record it.
DICK POE FAMILY OF DEALERSHIPS SINCE 1928
I worked it over again
and again,” Marty related. “I worked on that
song for three years, off
and on. But instead of
making it shorter it got
longer. I couldn’t tell
the story in less than
four minutes and 37 seconds.” Meanwhile Marty
continued with his other
compositions.
He sang with Grand Old
Opry in Nashville, Tenn.
His career had started in
his home town, Phoenix, after his discharge
from the Navy after
World War II. “Finally I
gave up,” Marty said. “I
couldn’t make the song
any shorter. So then Columbia went ahead and
recorded it.
It was four minutes
and 37 seconds
long.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.”
NELSON MANDELA
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