Looking Back: A review of January news from the last 50 years
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our January editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our January editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
Calandrias, horse-drawn carriages in Guadalajara’s centro historico, already a thing of the past in the sense of being a tradition harkening back to a distant time of corsets, pistol duels and wigs, will in a very real sense shortly be a thing of the past as they are phased out in favor of animal-less facsimiles propelled forward by the modern magic of electricity.
A massive black spike has appeared on the glorieta located at the busy intersection of Plan de San Luis and Andres Teran.
In order to minimize the amount of heavy-load semi trucks circulating in the Guadalajara metro area and mucking up its traffic, the Jalisco Transportation Department (Semov) plans to limit these vehicles’ use of Avenida Lopez Mateos, where they will be prohibited entry from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. starting February.
Conservative groups in Jalisco are up in arms over the substitution on online birth certificates of gender neutral terms for “mother” and “father” –
If you are wondering why clothes are hanging on pegs dotted around the city, don’t be puzzled.
Three pairs of Adelie penguins at the Guadalajara Zoo have given birth to offspring – the first successful breeding of penguins in captivity recorded in Latin America.
One of the metropolitan area’s most chic mall complexes, the Centro Comerical Andares in Zapopan, continues to metastasis at an alarming rate, with 60 million pesos budgeted for expansion this year.
Guadalajara city hall is moving ahead with a plan to allow the upper (fourth) tier of the new Corona Market to be converted into a hostal/restaurant/bar.