Episode 12. Ray's longtime friend Alfred Lopez, aka Capone Designs airbrush artist is our guest. Taking time away from painting a yacht! Alfred stops in to share some stories of his history with El Pachuco Zoots including the story behind his business name. You can check out his work on Instagram @caponedesigns

With Jim Ruel travelling the country doing comedy and looking good on stage in his Zoot Suits, Ray Estrella once again handles the solo duty of hosting the podcast.

We are just getting started. If there are any topics and stories you would like us to explore shoot us a message via email or social media and we'll see what we can do.

elpachuco@gmail.com

And once again thanks to Pachuco Jose for our intro and outtro music.

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Episode 11, Juan Rubalcaba comes to us all the way from Hawaii to be a guest on the podcast. A longtime friend, he has a ton of stories to share, including painting the store itself!

Oscar Ruelas also drops in the say a quick hello.

Finally, Phyllis Estrella joins us to introduce Victor, who was part of the second edition of the El Pachuco Dance ensemble, some 40 years ago.

With Jim Ruel travelling the country doing comedy and looking good on stage in his Zoot Suits, Ray Estrella handles the solo duty of hosting the podcast. He even figured out how to work the audio recorder.

We are just getting started. If there are any topics and stories you would like us to explore shoot us a message via email or social media and we'll see what we can do.

elpachuco@gmail.com

And once again thanks to Pachuco Jose for our intro and outtro music.

Elpachuco.com

Really the reason we started this podcast was to document the history of El Pachuco Zoot Suits, so we hope you appreciate as much as we do to have Ray Sr. join us to share more of the history of the store.

We also sat down with filmmaker/artist Jesse, Pachuco Muerto who has done great work helping to document Pachuco happenings. You can follow his work under Zuela Force Productions on Facebook.

El Pachuco Chronicles is weekly podcast hosted by Ray Estrella and Jim Ruel with Vanessa Estrella dropping in when she can.

We are just getting started. If there are any topics and stories you would like us to explore shoot us a message via email or social media and we'll see what we can do.

elpachuco@gmail.com

And once again thanks to Pachuco Jose for our intro and outtro music.

Elpachuco.com