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It’s Sunday: Ancestral Austin: Estradas & Limóns
Today, pick up the Austin American-Statesman.
In the Life & Arts section, you’ll find a story.
A story that was a year and a half in the making.
It tells of the Estradas and Limóns.
These two Austin families have lived in the Austin area since the 19th Century.
They were migrant farm workers who became cab drivers, domestic workers and launderers then shop owners, business leaders and community heroes.
We tell the story through the eyes of Lonnie Limón, the executive at LatinWorks advertising agency who blends the two families by blood and marriage.
The story is up: Go here.
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By Michael Barnes
May 30, 2011 3:53 PM | Link to this
Jim, Thanks for your comment. I covered some of that territory in an earlier article on Plaza Saltillo and its origins in the rise and fall of Don Limon's. As you suggest, it was a complicated situation involving only one of many branches of the Limon family. If you look closely, there are passing references to it in the longer story about the Estradas and Limons. I didn't feel the need to dig into that again, especially since my focus from the beginning was Lonnie. Best, Michael
By Jim Nelson
May 29, 2011 6:19 PM | Link to this
Fantastic article and if you had not mentioned the family being "icons" of the Austin community, I would not be writing this comment. We need to remember that the Limon family screwed the City of Austin out of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a restaurant that was the biggest cash cow for the Limon family, but, unfortunately, not for the customers who frequented it. They never repaid the city for the loan and left countless people hanging out to dry for money owed them for services, products, payroll, etc.
Think that should be mentioned in view of the very complimentary article you wrote. All is not gold that glitters.