![]() In the early '40s, El Paso police and the National Guard finally managed to break up the pachuco gangs and run them out of El Paso. Their hero was Tin Tan, a Mexican DJ who in 1938 created a zoot-suited, tirlili-speaking character for his XEJ radio show from across the border in Juarez. So that they couldn't be understood by Anglos or other Mexicanos, they spoke their own made-up, jive-talking language of tirili ("hoodlum talk"), a variation on the ancient Spanish gypsy dialect calo. Gangs virtually controlled Segundo Barrio downtown, led by the fearsome 7-X. ![]() In the '20s and '30s, "El 'Chuco," as it was nicknamed - probably because so many of its residents hailed from the Hidalgo, Mexico, city of Pachuca - epitomized the Wild West border town. Pachuco boogie, the postwar, Mexican-American adaptation of jump blues named after the 1948 Don Tosti single that launched the subgenre, came to fruition in East L.A., but its roots are in El Paso, Texas. ![]()
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