Pasaje Jacaranda, officially ''Plaza Comercial Plaza Jacaranda'', designed by architects Ramón Torres Martínez and

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, was an open-air shopping center opened in 1959 in the Zona Rosa, Mexico City, at the time considered the hippest and most cosmopolitan district of the city.

Etymology

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History

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, José Luis Cuevas and Alejandro Jodorowsky frequented the plaza. Its shops and art galleries had full-width, full-height glass windows facing an interior courtyard. It was located on the east side of Genova Street between Londres and Liverpool streets. Then-famous restaurants such as Le Bistrot and Alfredo's, as well as La Trucha Vagabunda, Toulouse-Lautrec, and La Cabaña were located in Pasaje Jacaranda, as was the jewelry shop of jeweler and sculptor Ernesto Paulsen. As the neighborhood deteriorated in the 1980s and particularly as a result of the

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, different buildings of the complex were torn down.Louise Noelle, "Ramón Torres Martínez (1924-2008)", January 2008, ''Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas'' vol. 30(93)
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, music and computer stores, and other shops and restaurants are located on the site today.

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