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CUBAN Historical Family Photo Blog
RAY RUIZ is a professional career firefighter, a division chief on the Sycuan Fire Department, Sycuan Indian Reservation, in San Diego County, Southern California, USA United States of America.
At the age of 11, Ray immigrated to America in 1968 with his father, mother, three sisters, brother, and grandmother. Other family members pictured below remain in Cuba.
RAY RUIZ IS NO LONGER WORKING FOR THE SYCUAN FIRE DEPARTMENT OR THE GOLDEN EAGLES HOTSHOTS.
A LOT OF BIG PICTURES LOADING...
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Young Ray Ruiz in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba.

Ray Ruiz is pictured in his Cuban home in late 1960s playing a violin beside some of his toy roller skates, helicopter and fire truck that he received for Christmas. The toys, Ray recalls, were all made in China.
The young Cuban boy immigrated to the US in 1968 and became a high-ranking professional fireman in charge of the Sycuan Fire Department Air and Wildland Division, including many fire apparatus and fire-fighting helicopters.

Ray Ruiz, a young Cuban boy on Chinese-made bicycle in front of his home, Santiago de Las Vegas, Habana Cuba.

Ray's young cousins and aunts pose for a documentary picture on a street corner in Santiago de Las Vegas, Habana Cuba, in the mid 20th Century.
A young woman in a fashion dress is pictured adjusting her sun glasses and a young man in cool 1940s 1950s two-tone saddle shoes also photographed wearing modern sun glasses looking off camera.

Ray Ruiz is pictured in late 1950s in Cuba at a large birthday party group picture with many young boys and girls, a birthday cake, Coke bottles on table.

The young Cuban boy to the right is Ray Ruiz, early 1950s, in a public park in Santiago de Las Vegas, 1960s. An iron lamppost is pictured with historical Cuban buildings in background.

A priceless family historical sepia photograph pictures Ray's grand aunt in front of a makeshift wooden shack in Cuba, 1930s.

Six pretty young girls in Cuba are pictured in the early 1950s wearing cowboy hats and holding toy guns on a neighborhood street in Santiago de Las Vegas.

Some of Ray's uncles were photographed in the late 1950s building one of their family houses.

Ray's aunts, cute young Cuban girls dressed in traditional Cuban montero dresses, shoes, belts, blouses, bow ties, shawls, hair scarves, flowers in hair ribbons pose for a picture in the 1930s.

Ray's aunt, uncle hold Ray's sister, Edenia, pose for a picture in the early 1960s.

Ray comes from a large family in Cuba, here some of his aunts and uncles enjoying Cuban beers and drinks at an open bar in El Cacahual resturant, Santiago de Las Vegas, Habana Cuba, circa 1950s 1960.
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