¡Colores!; 807; Abuquerque's Places of the Heart

SRT Captions File Generated by MXFplus >>Narrator: MAJOR FUNDING

>>Narrator: PARTIAL FUNDING OF CARING FOR ALBUQUERQUE'S HEARTS PRESBYTERIAN IS PROUD >>Narrator: TAKE A SWIM CAFE. TAKE A SENTIMENTAL BUT NOT FORGOTTEN NEXT >> Narrator: AMERICA HAS

THEY ARE UNIQUE WONDERFUL TEACH US WHO WE WERE THESE PLACES OF ALBUQUERQUE'S BUILDINGS FILLED WITH MEMORIES PLACES WHERE WE WORKED PLAYED THEY ARE GONE NOW AS LONG AS WE SHARE STORIES ALBUQUERQUE'S PLACES ALBUQUERQUE HAD FAVORITE SPOTS

NORTH SOUTH EAST AND WEST MANY WERE DOWNTOWN, NOW, BUT ONCE UPON A TIME... IN THE OLDEN DAYS, THERE WAS HORSES, CARS, AND PEDESTRIANS >> Pfeufer: ALBUQUERQUE HIGH COULD GOHOME FOR LUNCH. OFTEN TIMES A FREIGHT TRAIN WOULD >> Robinson: MY DAD AND MOTHER REALLY ENJOYED ALBUQUERQUE.

AT THAT POINT WHEN HE WOULD GO THEREWAS NO UNDERPASS THE TRAIN WAS COMING AND HAD WHETHER HE HIT THE ARMS >>Narrator: IN 1936, THANKS IT WAS A BIG DEAL. FOLKLORE SAYS IF YOU HONKED YOUR HORN AND MADE A WISH COME TRUE. IT WAS MAGIC. THIS IS TODAY'S VIADUCT, VIADUCT. >> Bramlett: WE LIVED UP

TO ME. MY BROTHER USED TO TAKE THE TRUTH (LAUGHING). >>Narrator: MR BRAMLETT'S BUT FOR DECADES THE ALVARADO >> Anella: THE YMCA, AT FIRST THERE ABOUT A QUARTER ABOUT 1:30 AND THEN WE'D GO OVER TO THE ALVARADO AND HAVE LUNCH. WE DIDN'T WORK VERY HARD...AND EVERY TIME WE WALKED OVER TO THE ALVARADO THERE WOULD BE THIS SUPER

CHIEF ON ITS WAY TO CHICAGO. WE'D LOOKAT IT EVERY DAY AND WE'D SAY "ONE OF THESE AND SO ONE DAY WE DID. OF CARDS AND PLAYED POKER ALL A GOOD BREAKFAST AND WAITED >>Narrator: THE SUPER CHIEF CELEBRITIES TO THE ALVARADO, BETTY COMPSON, MARRIED HER MANAGER ON THE BRICK WALK, MAGIC FOR EVERYONE. THE YMCA AND THE ALVARADO

TRANSPORTATION CENTER THIS IS LA POSADA, BUT ONCE IT WITH THE POLITICOS. >> Bryan: AS A NEWSPAPER MAN TO THE HILTON LOBBY CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY THERE AND HE WOULD ALWAYS WE'D SAYCLYDE IS SITTING THERE AT THE HILTON AND THEY WOULD NAMES WEREN'T FAMILIAR, SO THEY WOULD GO BEFORE THE PUBLIC AND ALSO TOO

>>Narrator: SIXTH AND CENTRAL BUT ONCE UPON A TIME YOU COULD GO TO THE FABULOUS FRANCISCAN THERE WAS A TIME WHEN DOWNTOWN SOMETHING TO SEE AND DO. IT WAS THE CITY'S HEART. >> Segura: I REMEMBER DOWNTOWN WAS THE THING TO DO, IT WAS BECAUSE IT WAS THE J.C. PENNYS, SEARS, FEDWAYS. >>Narrator: REMEMBER WHEN

MEXICO'S CROSSROADS. ANYTHING YOU COULD BE PHOTOGRAPHED...STUFF YOUR PANTRY... PAY A TICKET... SIP A COCKTAIL... HAVE A HAIR CUT... OR A BOB...GET DRILLED...PILLED...BILLED...FILL BURIED ALL WITHIN A FEW BLOCKS DRILLED...PILLED...BILLED...FILL

NOTHING YOU COULDN'T BUY: CLOTHES, SHOES A FOOTBALL, CURIOS, MUSIC, GIFTS, OR HATS FOR BAD HAIR DAYS, SPEAKING OF HATS, EVERYONE WORE ONE ANDLADIES DOWNTOWN WAS A MAGIC PLACE HERE'S THE NORTH SIDE WHATEVER AT THE LIBERTY CAFE OR MAYBE WALGREENS.

>> Robinson: I RECALL WHEN THEATER WENT OVER AFTER A LATE MOVIE CRACKERS, THERE WERE FOUR AND ONE OF THEM HAPPEN TO BE AND TOOK US OVER TO JAIL REMEMBER THE LIBERTY CAFE VERY >>Narrator: OR YOU MIGHT GO AND THERE WERE PARADES

ALBUQUERQUE'S 250TH BIRTHDAY. >> Segura: ONE MEMORY I HAVE AND MY FATHER DID NEITHER TO PAY BAIL TO GET HIM OUT BARS BECAUSE OF COURSE BEING ARRESTED, BUT MOTHER PAID AND WE WENT DOWN SITTING >>Narrator: LOOK AT THESE WE ARE CAPTURING HERE A MOTION

FLICKERED SILENTLY ACROSS TO A WALL, WE HAD THEATERS. IN FACT THE LITTLE RIO WAS SO MUCH THAT DURING ISSUE AN IOU IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE A DIME. THEATERS EMPLOYED MUSCIANS, MISS LIVINIA MAVACHECK TICKLED THE IVORIES

AT THE SUNSHINE WHILE SOMEONE ELSE PLAYED DANGER MUSIC THEATER. >> Pfeufer: ON SUNDAYS AND PEOPLE WOULD SAY B THEATER AND HERE WAS THIS MUSIC WOMAN PLAYING ON THE PIANO THERE THE SILENT FILMS AND ICOULDN'T ON TOP OF YOU. >> Narrator: SMALL THEATERS OPERA HOUSES. WE HAD OUR OWN PICTURE PALACE, TO HONOR NEW MEXICO'S FIRST >> Bryan: THE KIMO THEATER

DOWNTOWN WAS BUILT IN 1927 HE HAD DONE A INDIAN MOTIF, WHICH THE THEATER MAINTAINS THEY WANTED AN INDIAN NAME TO HAVE A CONTEST, SO THAT RAN WHICH HAD NO NAME AT THE TIME IN ARIZONA AND HE SAID IF YOU CALL IT PAPAGO THAT TO THE PAPAGO." THAT NAME DIDN'T WIN. THE NAME THAT WON PABLO ABEITA. PABLO ABEITA SUGGESTED THE NAME KIMO WHICH IN THE INDIAN LANGUAGE AS MEANING KING OF ITS KIND.

>>Narrator: THE CITY NOW WELL HERES THE CORNER OF FIFTH AT THE ARMORY. >> Prevetti: THE ONLY PLACE IN THE ARMORY, YOU WANTED WE HAD WRESTLING IN THERE, THE KIVA AUDITORIUM, IT WAS EVERYTHING ROLLED INTO ONE, WAS HAPPENING AT THE ARMORY. >>Narrator: MANY CONCERTS >> Prevetti: MY JOB WAS

AUDIENCE WAS REALLY CAUSE I SAW BLACK KIDS, BOYS AND GIRLS, BLACKLADIES BUT THEY WERE OF ALL AGES, AND COMING GIGS YOU'RE GONNA THEY WENT BANANAS, I MEAN JUST THIN, BUT HEALTHY LOOKING, A HEAD OF HAIR YOU'D KNOCKING THEM OUT, HE STAYED I REMEMBER HE SANG ONE SONG HE GETS OFF THE STAGE AND I THINK WE ALL HAD A HOT

>>Narrator: MAYBE WHAT WE ALL >> May: IT WAS THE CENTER CROWDED AND STORES WERE OPEN, OF NOT OF ALBUQUERQUE, BUT OF THE STATE. PEOPLE WOULD STOP THERE CARS AND COME >>Narrator: AND NOW, I'LL MEET NOT ALL PLACES OF

TOWN, TO OLD ALBUQUERQUE, AND MEMORABLE SITES. WE ASSOCIATE DINERS CENTURY TO ACCOMMODATE LATE PERMANENTLY PARKED THAT WERE PRE FABRICATED DINER WAS AT TENTH AND CENTRAL AND DELLA HERNANDEZ OWNED

AND OPERATED THE DINER UNTIL ITS FUTURE. ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS >> Huning-Hinton: THE EPITOME CASTLE HUNING WHICH HE CALLED THE BUILDING IN 1880 AND IT WAS COMPLETED IN 1883. HE MOVED HIS FAMILY IN JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, 1883, UNTIL HE DIED. THE CASTLE WAS WITH LUMBER WHICH HE PAINTED TWICE. IT WAS TWO STORIES, IT HAD TWO TOWERS OVER IT A WATER TANK WHICH WAS FILLED

FROM A WINDMILL IN THE BACK AND A LONG STAIRCASE, A LIVING ROOM AND A DINING ROOM. THE SURROUNDING PROPERTY WASABOUT 770 ACRES. TO PROBABLY SEVENTEENTH AND THEN IT WENT FROM CENTRAL TO RIO GRANDE. >>Narrator: LATER IT WAS ALAS IT WAS DEMOLISHED OLD TOWN AS WE KNOW IT TODAY CENTERED AROUND CHURCH, HOME,

AND FAMILY. >> Segura: PROBABLY MY FONDEST THE ANNUAL SAN FELIPE FIESTA ALWAYS HELD ON SUNDAYS AT FOUR PROBABLY AROUND THREE O'CLOCK WAITING FOR THE PROCESSION TO COME, FROM DURANES OF RAIN AND SO ALL OF US WOULD GATHERAND RUN AND HIDE IN THE CONVENT AND IT WOULD BE AND IT ALWAYS SEEMED THAT THE MINUTE SAN FELIPE ARRIVED AND CONTINUED THE MASS. SAN AND OURDEVOTION TO HIM.

>>Narrator: THE PROCESSION WAS FIND A LIVELY SPIRIT AND SENSE OF HERITAGE IN HISPANIC TRADITION IN THE CHURCH IT'S PLACES OF THE HEART. CENTRAL WAS ALSO ROUTE 66; IN WITH IT. >> Beaumont: ALBUQUERQUE WAS I COULDN'T FIND A ROOM TO RENT AND I FINALLY ENDED UP CENTRAL RIGHT BY THE RIVER, IT

>>Narrator: YOU TURNED LEFT BEACH WITH BOATS AND DIVING THE BELLS AND WHISTLES. IT'S A LOT SMALLER NOW, SINCE IT WAS MAGIC. SPEAKING OF SPORTS

EXCITEMENT OF TINGLEY FIELD AND LATER THE LOS ANGELES WITH A STOMACH ACHE FROM TOO TINGLEY FIELD WAS A PLACE THE TOWN GREW IN ALL THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SAT ALONE ON THE HILL BUT ALBUQUERQUE SOON FILLED CENTRAL AVENUE USED TO LOOK RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS CAME

AND SUNNY DAYS. SOON THE SANATORIUMS, COTTAGES, SANATORIUM, NOW PRESBYTERIAN BROUGHT THOUSANDS HOSPITALS, PRESBYTERIAN ALBUQUERQUE'S ONLY LOCALLY WASDR. ABRAHAM SCHORTL'S ALBUQUERQUE SANATORIUM AND UP DEACONESS SAN, NO WONDER HAD COTTAGES FOR STUDENTS WITH TUBERCULOSIS. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE,

>> Robinson: I FIRST STARTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW DIFFERENT THEN, THAN IT IS INCREDIBLE TO IMAGINE. AS I WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER THAN 100 DOLLARS A SEMESTER AT THAT TIME. THE LOBOS PLAYED BASKETBALL IN WHAT WAS CALLED CARLISLE GYM. A VERY SMALL FACILITY, AS A MATTER OF FACT IF THEY GOT A HUNDRED PEOPLE STARTED LAW SCHOOL, WHICH OF THE ZIMMERMAN STADIUM. NOW IMAGINE TRYING TO WORK

WERE STOMPING ON THE SEATS URGING THE LOBOS >>Narrator: THE PRESENCE AT THE PINE GROVE, THE FOUNTAIN, OR THE SUNDIAL OR YOU COULD GO TO THE NEARBY PIG STAND, NOWA LAUNDROMAT AND THERE WAS A SODA FOUNTAIN IN ARCHIE WESTPHALL'S TO THE TRIANGLE. DYER LEASED THIS PATCH OF SAND WHERE GIRARD, MONTE VISTA,

CAR HOPS SERVED BARBEQUE, ACROSS THE STREET, BUT AFTER WORLD WAR II BECAME HOUSE DINER WILL SOON HAVE JUST ACROSS THE STREET, BURNED DOWN, BUT PEOPLE >>: IT WAS A BIG GREEN WOODEN >>Narrator: HERE'S THE ICEBERG

THE LIGHT FANTASTIC. THE ICEBERG FLOATED EAST ITS FINAL TRIP NORTH THE LOBO THEATER IS NOW FASCINATING BUILDINGS SUCH SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING

>>H.B. Horn: IN THOSE DAYS BATTERIES, SWEPT FLOOR BOARDS, >>Narrator: BETWEEN MOTELS, THE FOOT HILLS LOOKED LIKE THIS. ABOUT ALL THERE WAS TO SEE WAS THIS U, AND SUPPER ROCK WHERE FOLKS

WOULD PICNIC ON SUMMER BUT ONE OF THE MOST EXOTIC >> Goodman: I BOUGHT SOME LAND OUT THERE ON THE CITY LIMITS CALLED IT, POOR MAN MACHE. I USED TO SELL POST CARDS OUT THERE FOR A PENNY A PIECE AND IF I WANTED PUT A SIGN OUT [THAT SAID] TEN CARDS. >>Narrator: TODAY, THERE ARE

IT WAS A FAR RIDE INTO TOWN. >> Goodman: WHEN I GET AUTOMOBILE EVERYDAY AND DRIVE DOWN EVERYDAY TO PICK THEM UP AND WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO THE TRAFFIC COP WOULD STOP ME YOU KNOW, WE KNOW YOU HAVE THATGOOD A DRIVER, SO I TOOK TO PUT HIGHWAY 66 OUT WELL I FIGURED I BETTER GO AHEAD AND DO SOMETHING STOPPER. IT BROKE MY HEART. >>Narrator: MANNY GOODMAN

AND 70'S, MALLS STARTED AND ALBUQUERQUE LOST ITS SMALL ALMOST EVERYTHING WE'VE SEEN THE ONLY WAY WE CAN VISIT THEM IS TO TAKE A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY TO THE PLACES OF OUR HEART THAT ARE GONE,