Tagged With "Santurce"

While it was a perfectly nice neighborhood when I lived in Santurce, what a pleasant difference almost 50 years can make!

As Gumbo readers know by now, a lot of us who write these pieces are suckers for markets, large and small, wherever we go. If an army travels on its stomach, an army of bloggers stocks up at the public market.   So, on our recent trip to Puerto...

A visit to one of San Juan's best markets with Jonathan L. The area now becoming a center for trendy bars and restaurants.

Jonathan L brings us some of the street art from the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Jonathan L takes us to Santurce, Puerto Rico for a look at a beautiful and poignant mural by Colectivo Moriviví.

Jonathan L shares some of the wonderful street art in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Controversial...

Jonathan L visits the Calle Cerra, in the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan, and its many murals

First mural wearing #21 must be my baseball hero, Roberto Clemente. I would always enjoy seeing him play with my hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the first Caribbean and the first Latin-American player to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame after his tragic death when flying relief supplies to Nicaragua after an earthquake. His professional baseball career began at age 18 when he accepted a contract with Cangrejeros de Santurce ("Crabbers"), of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball...

All of that is true. He was also my wife's "primo"