Tex-Mex (was "The sky is the limit" ...)

Mon Jan 26 00:22:51 UTC 2004

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>   I saw the movie SEABISCUIT (2003) on the flight home.  There were several
>anachronisms.  "Tex-Mex" appears on a background billboard at Tijuana in the
>early 1930s.  Also, "Hope and Crosby" is mentioned in the 1930s, before their

So when is Tex-Mex first attested? I heard it as a child in se TX. -
probably late 1940s, though I have no record. Could have been as late as
the 1950s.

Bethany