University of Texas at El Paso ScholarWorks@UTEP Combined Interviews Institute of Oral History 5-24-2006 Interview no. 1298 Adelino López Gutiérrez Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utep.edu/interviews Part of the Oral History Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Interview with Adelino López Gutiérrez by Violeta Mena, 2006, "Interview no. 1298," Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Institute of Oral History at ScholarWorks@UTEP. It has been accepted for inclusion in Combined Interviews by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UTEP. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. University of Texas at El Paso Institute of Oral History Interviewee: Adelino López Gutiérrez Interviewer: Violeta Mena Project: Bracero Oral History Project Location: Herber, California Date of Interview: 24 May 2006 Terms of Use: Unrestricted Transcript No.: 1298 Transcriber: GMR Transcription Services Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Adelino López Gutiérrez was born on November 10, 1939, in San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, Mexico; he is the second of six children born to Concepción López and María Matea Gutiérrez; he married at the age of twenty-three, his wife, Carmen Ramírez, was from Guanajuato; she was twenty years old when they met; they had four children; he was a bracero from 1950-1963; he worked in Tracy, California picking tomato and persimmon; he also worked in the fields of Imperial Valley, picking beets and onions; at the time of the interview, Mr. López was living in Mexicali, Mexico.