In today’s Tuesday’s Time Warp installment, we look at how the iconic cross-border street cars likely got their start. In the November 22, 1900, El Paso Daily Herald we learn that Juárez officials agreed to give a mule transportation company owned the concession to the only place a bride could be built and owned the rights to the existing bridges. The Juárez government agreed to exempt the company from taxes for five years and refunded $1,500 the company paid in taxes that year, if they moved forward on converting its mule-drawn wagons to an electric street car line.
El Paso Daily Herald Front Page for November 22, 1900, see Valuable Grants article.
The Tuesday Time Warp Series
The El Paso Herald Post Tuesday Time Warp series takes you back to the news headlines making in the El Paso Herald Post. The El Paso Herald Post began life as the El Paso Herald in 1881. From 1901 through 1931, the newspaper changed its masthead from the El Paso Herald Post, to the El Paso Daily Herald until it settled on the El Paso Herald again. Through a merger for survival with Scripps-Howard in 1931, the newspaper became the El Paso Herald-Post. It ceased publishing its print edition on October 11, 1997, when it printed its last edition.
It remained in the history books until Chris Babcock brought it back as an online edition newspaper in 2015, until shuttering for a second time in 2021.
On September 1, 2025, Martín Paredes brought back the online edition to help fill a much-needed void on local news reporting.
The Tuesday Time Warp Series looks into the past through the El Paso Herald Post print edition from 1881 to 1997. Each Tuesday we select an edition and highlight what we believe was the important news of the day.
Look for the Tuesday Time Warp Series each Tuesday morning looking back into El Paso’s history through the El Paso Herald Post – today’s digital newspaper rooted in 1881 and reimagined for today.
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