Between puffs off a menthol cigarette, director Kinan Valdez coolly considers whether “Zoot Suit,” a play written by his father Luis Valdez, is the most popular Chicano play of all time. After a brief ...

The Juárez city council has declared Sept. 19 as "Día del Pachuco," or Pachuco Day, in honor of the late star of the Mexican silver screen Germán "Tin-Tan" Valdes, who embodied the pachuco style that ...

FULLERTON, Calif. (KABC) -- At El Pachuco Zoot Suits in Fullerton, the Estrella family has been keeping the zoot suit a la mode for the past 45 years. The 1940s suit, which features high-waisted, wide ...

Phyllis Estrella, remembers hearing the word "Pachuco" for the first time when she was just five years old. It was during the 1940's, and she recalls the word "Pachuco" being used with neither a ...

Why did you start this business? In 1978, after seeing the play “Zoot Suit” I tried to purchase a zoot suit for my then 16-year-old brother, and could not find one anywhere. I then decided to bring ...

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, ...

The Pachuco subculture developed in the southwestern United States in the '30s and '40s by Mexican-American youth. The subculture had a certain dress code and language that was largely misunderstood.

At El Pachuco Zoot Suits in Fullerton, the Estrella family has been keeping the Zoot suit a la mode for the past 45 years.