Question: Why "El Chuco"?

[joqua]

Originally Posted by Rich Cabeza

Somebody shoe open an El Paso Shoe Company to compete with SAS. I'd buy them over SAS every time.

Ever heard of TONY LAMA?

[Rich Cabeza]

Tony Lama, an Italian kid from New York gets stationed at Fort Bliss, meets some gorgeous Mexican girl, stays in the area and starts a business. I can relate, lol! Joqua, are they still being made in EP?

[orgen15]

They started using el chuco because there was a Shoe Company in el paso called the Shoe Co and people from juarez mostly zoot suiters use to go and cross the border to go work at the Shoe Company and use to say in Spanish "vamos pal chuco" meaning the Shoe Co and the people started calling.g this young men pachucos, Pprque ivan pa chuco

[Ebarrientos01]

Back on the days it use to be a shoe store on El Paso St. right after crossing the bridge Santa Fe ( first store at the corner) and it was a big sign right on top of the store saying " Shoe Co. " Which people can see it all the way from Cd. Juarez so people across the bridge star calling El Paso "El Chuco " do it to the shoe store with the big sign Shoe Co. El Chuco. So this Chuco word has nothing to do with the pachucos which is a totally different story.

[noroy2]

You got all wrong people.

There was a business in El Paso called Shoe Co., it seems that was a shoe store in downtown. In spanish its pronounced "chu co", so when people asked, where are you going? (a donde vas?) they said: al chuco (Shoe Co.)