Jose Simon Marquez, who is often known as Joe Marquez, discusses growing up on his family's Spanish Land Grant ranchito in New Mexico. Marquez also discusses his experiences playing 'goodwill' baseball for the Third Armored Division while reconstructing Europe in the 1950s, working for McDonnell Douglas in California, relocating to Minturn and working with the US Forest Service and the Town of Vail, his early entrepreneurship in the Eagle River and Gore Creek valleys, and being a founding father of Vail., Please also see Joe Marquez - Oral History part 2.
Joe Marquez modeled for this Jose Oshea restaurant promotional.
