Laredo: 1960s-1970s

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Laredo 1960s-1970s

• BY Jesse Sandoval
• Joshua Martinez
• Luis Gutierrez

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Table of Contents

• Short Biography
• Introduction
• War Change
• Flood The making of Falcon Lake
• The Economy
• The Trade
• The Technology
• Work Cited

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Short Biography

• Juventino Martinez was born in November 24, 1947
  in San Ignacio, Mexico. He was force to leave his
  home town with his family after the flood that
  created Falcon Lake during the late fifty's.
  Juventino moved to the United States at the
  request of his brothers and after moving around
  in the west part of the country for a few years
  he finaly settled down in Laredo in 1968 when he
  got married to his wife.

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Introduction

• Laredo started out as a small town that was
  mainly used to trade and transport good with
  Mexico. The town would grow and develop a strong
  trading system with Mexico and other towns and
  cities in the state, and would also become the
  most important import and export center between
  the United States and Mexico.

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War Change

• Laredo during Vietnam was very hard for a lot of
  Laredo residents because of the draft.
• Many of Laredo's people fled to Mexico to start
  life over there while to Mexicans toke advantage
  of this opportunity to come to the U.S and Work.
• As for the ones that stayed, theres a good
  chance that they were drafted into the War.

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The Great Acuna Flood and Laredo

• The Great Acuna Flood did not happen during the
  1960 but it did have a long term affect on the
  Laredo community. During the time when the flood
  happen, a large quantity of the people lived in
  rural areas, like ranches, lived off their crops.
  Many of these crops were ruin by the flood and as
  a result, residents of both side of the boarder
  had to move to a town or city where the local
  economy wasnt completely dependent on farming.

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The Economy

• In the 1960s, the prices for gas per gallon was
  around only 0.14.
• Unlike today where the price of a car goes in the
  thousands, the average car during the 1960s would
  cost only a few hundred dollars.
• The minimum Wage was around 1.10 dollars.
• During this time, the currency of the United
  States was worth more today than it is today.

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The Trade

• The trade between the two cities further helped
  Laredo's economy. The trade would then feather
  help Laredo being noticed by other big cities and
  being placed on the map as an important city.
  Jobs for Border Patrol would also open up and
  proved a chance for many of the citizens to earn
  a good pay rate.

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Oil Boom

• During the 1970s and 1980s, it was discovered
  that there were large amount of oil in Texas.
• The discovery initially helped Texas
  infrastructure but around the early 80s the price
  of oil was dropped which causing some damage on
  Texas's economy.
• Texas remains the strongest oil competitor in the
  United States.

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Work cited

• www.info.com
• www.yahoo.com
• http//www.drchamber.com/live/history/acunaflood.h
  tml
• http//www.dallasfed.org/research/pubs/fotexas/fot
  exas_brown.html