Cajero, Ricardo "Richard"

This interview was recorded on October 21st, 2024 in Tucson, Arizona and it covers the following themes: 

b. 1951 

  • Parents’ move to Tucson after World War II and jobs in surveying and nursing.  

  • Childhood in the Menlo Park neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s, including discussions of Catholicism, houses and businesses, games, rivalry between Barrio Hollywood and Menlo Park children, Vacant land. 

  • Elementary school at Menlo Park and school demographics.  

  • Family’s choice to speak English. 

  • The Menlo Park brickyard. 

  • Interstate-10, the old Congress Street bridge, Santa Cruz River. 

  • St Mary’s Hospital in the 1950s and 1960s. 

  • Roskruge Junior High.  

  • Salpointe High School.   

Aengus Anderson