SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The year was 1998. As for the date, they are not too sure.
Nowadays, even the earliest members, nicknamed los primeros, struggle to recall. But they do know, the group started on a Wednesday, with 33 people and one rule: no English allowed.
At the time, Maria Lueras, then-program coordinator for the city of Sacramento, saw a desire for older Latinos to socialize in Spanish.
