This color TV episode from “America!” is titled “El Paso Del Norte”. It takes the viewer on a tour of El Paso, Texas and its sister city Juarez, Mexico. This show was hosted by Jack Douglas, a pioneering producer who created some of the first travel and adventure television programs, including “I Search for Adventures,” “Golden Voyage”, “Kingdom of the Sea”, “Bold Journey” and “Seven League Boots”.
Quick clips of Mount Rushmore and other tourist sites across America (0:08). Jack Douglas opening words (0:39). Aerial view of El Paso, Texas (0:45). El Paso International Airport (1:09). Quick clips of attractions in El Paso including Sunland Park horse race (1:21). Mount Cristo Rey (1:46). Mount Franklin – tail end of The Rockies (1:58). Aerial view over Juarez of The Rio Grande (2:24). Mountain Park residential area (2:46). Interview with author of best-selling novel “Bordertown” Frank Mangan (3:13). Illustrated map highlighting Dallas, El Paso, and Los Angeles (4:08). Amen Wardy’s boutique shop on the corner of Mesa St and Nevada Avenue (4:18). El Paso Downtown district (5:50). El Paso’s famous Star on the Mountain (6:32). El Paso Natural Gas building (6:53). Hotel Paso del Norte on the corner of El Paso St. and San Antonio Avenue – hotels vaulted glass dome made by Tiffany of New York in 1912 (7:02). Tony Lama wholesale cowboy boot manufacturer in the Mexican sector of El Paso (8:03). Making of the hand-crafted boot (8:08). Pair of boots made for President Lyndon B. Johnson featuring the Presidential Seal (8:43). Sunland Park – races and water show (9:07). Campus of Texas-Western College – buildings have Tibetan-style architecture (9:40). Ysleta Mission (10:24). Soccoro Mission (10:48). Fort Bliss (10:58). Gatling Machine Gun model from 1903 made by Colt of Hartford, Connecticut (11:42). McGregor Missile Range – audience looks at the OQ-19D target missile and 1025 target missile (12:08). San Jacinto Plaza (13:20). First mule-drawn streetcar servicing El Paso & Juarez, later replaced by trolley 1518 (13:41). Aerial view of Juarez (14:36). Alberto Balderas Bull Ring (14:44). Downtown Juarez – Avenue of the 16th of September (15:00). Juarez City hall (15:09). Juarez Cathedral (15:15). Frontier Museum founded by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos (15:56). Artifacts from Mexico’s ancient civilizations – the Maya and Aztecs etc. (16:13). Cristales de Chihuahua Glass Factory (16:52). Juarez at night – more restaurants and bars than New York City’s Broadway and Times Square combined (18:01). Membership clubs – The Mardi Gras Room at The Sheraton El Paso Motor Inn (18:24). La Colonial Tortilla Factory (19:28). La Mesilla in New Mexico (19:42). Billy The Kid Bar (19:53). Mesilla Town Hall (19:58). Book “The Hands of Cantu” by El Paso author and painter Tom Lea (20:21). Interview with Tom Lea at his home in El Paso – portraits of his wife, Robert Mitchum, and Manolete (20:46). Hueco Tanks, natural cisterns – well known stop on the Butterfield Stage circuit (22:14). Legend of Geronimo (22:32). Closing scenes from around El Paso and Juarez (23:11).
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