welcome to the usa side of " los dos laredos." for a border town laredo is a nice 'lil town (pop 200k) that is 90% hispanic. it is a major border crossing, in fact mexico earns more tax money here than anywhere else. also, the economy is diversified so it stays fairly healthy, if on the low end. it was founded in 1755 by spanish "empressario" don tomas sanchez. he named it "villa de san augustin de laredo" in honor of his sponsor jose de escandon, who's hometown was laredo, spain. so, most interesting that it was founded in a rather american entreprenuerial style, without military or missionary aid. the historic square area is truly quite charming, the rest of downtown is mostly the usual cut-rate border shopping.

 

the historic posada hotel on the square was the best place in town and amazing, five star service for one star prices. so if yr ever in laredo, texas...heh!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

easter day procession from the church

 

 

my fav, i love those majestic texas oak trees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some more shots away from the square & around town

 

 

 

 

 

the biggest building is a nice old one

 

 

huge, massive & butt ugly bus station

 

the other tall one in town is an apt building

 

 

 

sad these groovy and grand old deco movie theaters so often fall to ruin

 

 

 

 

a little more from around town

 

 

 

 

 

 

near the border crossing

 

 

a final laredo meal of menudo & fajitas at the taco palenque mini-chain

http://www.tacopalenque.com/home.htm

 

***time to saddle-up pardners,

        i hope you enjoyed laredo, one of america's most historic towns***

 

 

I prefer Elyria. ;)

¡Bien hecho!

I like that hotel a lot

I prefer Elyria. ;)

 

laredo is like 4 or 5 times the size of elyria, so to keep a more level field of sarcasm maybe dayton?

^Wasn't sarcasm whatsoever.

^nor a level comparison.

 

ok it looks like miami has it over the bulls. nice close game tho.

^nah, I'm not really comparing facts and figures kind of stuff here, I'm just not a fan of that kind of architecture for the most part, I just said Elyria because it was you.

I've been through here before, but didn't have enough time to do it justice. For all purposes it's a Mexican town and it was hot as hell when I was there. At least we have some trees.

^you got it. it was over 100 degrees when i was there. i dk how they handle that all the time.