Colorado State Legislator (1969-1971), television personality and radio station owner, Francisco "Paco" Sanchez was born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1915. Along with his then wife, Hilda Maria Lara, the couple worked as stage performers in Mexico and California before moving to Colorado in 1948. Sanchez subsequently became a U.S. citizen in 1951 and in 1954 purchased the KFSC radio station in Denver, Colo. and changed the KFSC's format to a spanish language radio station. Sanchez was the founder of Good Americans Organization (GAO), a non-profit fraternal club and the GAO Federal Credit Union. In addition, he was a Commissioner of the Denver Urban Renewal Authority, Member of the Wheatridge Lions Club, Latin American Educational Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Wyatt School, Vice President of Cosmopolitan Denver T.V. Inc. and he helped establish Joe P. Martinez Park at 9th and Perry in Denver, Colo. Sanchez also operated the Holiday Theatre in North Denver. Paco Sanchez died in Denver, Colo. in 1973. Sanchez Park at Knox Ct. & W. 13th Ave., is named in his honor.
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