The KCTV News Collection - San Angelo Diez y Seis Fiesta Patrias Celebration (1972)

Duration: 0:40

Year Published: 1972

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: This silent news footage from the KCTV News Collection captures scenes of San Angelo’s 1972 fiesta patrias celebration for Mexican Independence Day, El Diez y Seis de Septiembre. San Angelo’s Mexican-American community has a strong tradition of fiestas patrias celebrations, dating back to 1910. The 1972 celebration was held at Sedeño Plaza, the home of Estanislado Sedeño, a Mexican-American community leader. Sedeño Plaza was home of the annual fiestas patrias celebration from 1946 until 1974. The celebration in this film was attended by San Angelo Mayor C.S. “Chic” Conrad, who proclaimed that day, September 5, 1972, Estanislado Sedeño Day. Sedeño passed away two years later.