“Everything is so new in Puerto Rico. I wanted to build something the way Puerto Rico started, something from the old land.”

—  Roberto Clemente

Discussing his recently opened restaurant, El Carretero (roughly translated as "one who leads the ox-drawn cart"), as quoted in "Roberto Clemente Baseball's Brightest Superstar" by Arnold Hano, in Boy's Life (March 1968), pp. 25 and 54 https://books.google.com/books?id=7LsdgvCy-S4C&pg=PA54
Other, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1968</big>

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