You would be amazed at the number of large stores in later years, and really good restaurants. Tourist flocked there, especially ‘snow-birds’ from the north.
Yeah, the soldiers were scary, especially when so many of them were in cahoots with the drug kings.
Was it Matamoros that got the big stores? I recall a few years ago of one of the towns had a bad fire and photos of it showed shacks with big oversized plywood midway-type facades. Was that Progresso?
Hubby said he did a Google walk through one of them and I haven't checked it out yet.