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Wayback Wednesday: New Mexico 1912

Posted on January 6, 2021

One hundred, nine years ago, today, New Mexico was admitted to the Union, becoming the 47th state. In Spanish, it is Nuevo México and in Navajo, it is Yootó Hahoodzo. It’s capital city is Santa Fe, founded in 1610 as the capital of Nuevo México, a province of New Spain. It’s largest city is Albuquerque and it is part of the Four Corners area of the southwest US. It is the fifth largest state and has a thriving film industry. It is home to the Los Alamos Lab, the White Sands Missile Range and the Sandia Lab. It is home to part of the Navajo Nation, Puebloan Peoples and Apache tribes. At one time, prehistorically, it was home to Ancestral Puebloans, Mogollon, Comanche and Ute Peoples. It has the the highest percentage of Hispanic & Latino Americans and the second-highest percentage of Native Americans, as a population, after Alaska. National New Mexico Day is June 14. Salute!

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Snapshots Sunday: Walsenburg

Posted on August 23, 2020 Updated on November 15, 2020

Walsenburg Sign Image One — Photo Credit: Acts & Tracks (Radio Ronin WordPress Site)

As a companion piece to the Fort Sumner post, my ex-Marine and I headed north, still on our way to Liar’s Lodge. We headed into snow and landed in Walsenburg, Colorado, in Huerfano County, a town smaller than the one I am living in and, as of 2019, continues to hemorrhage people from a peak of 5,855 in 1940. We arrived after dark and stopped to eat. There’s not much there, back then or now. ~Vic

New Mexico Mountains Image Two — Driving north on I-25 through New Mexico.
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Mileage Sign Image Three — Las Vegas, New Mexico, by the way…

Driving Into Snow Image Four — The snow showed up.
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Snowy Road Image Five — Continuing north.
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Empty Diner Image Six — This is from December 2008 but,
the diner looks like it’s from 1974.
Alpine Rose Cafe
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Deserted Diner Image Seven — It was open but, deserted.
We had a decent meal.
It’s still there as of 2018.
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Radio Station Image Eight — KSPK
It appears to still be there.
It is the only home of Colorado Rockies Baseball
in Southern Colorado.

Huerfano Courthouse Image Nine — County courthouse and jail all lit up.
The lights in the windows are odd.
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Snowing Image Ten — It started to snow, again,
while I was attempting another picture.

Additional Reading:
Returning to the Place I’d Never Been (Acts & Tracks/radioronin.wordpress.com)
City of Walsenburg (colorado.gov)
Walsenburg (colorado.com)
Walsenburg (Uncover Colorado)