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Albuquerque's decline was attributed to the lack of railroad access [1] as well as the growth of nearby Union Valley, which was just two miles south of Albuquerque. [2] The Albuquerque Post Office closed for good in 1883, just 13 years after opening. The town itself was completely abandoned by 1912, [2] and is today a Texas ghost town.
Oct. 4—It's Albuquerque's time to shine — and fly. The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta started this weekend and continues through Oct. 13. It puts the Duke City on the map and draws ...
Winrock Shopping Center opened on March 1, 1961, on a 71-acre (29 ha) lot [2] near the planned Coronado Freeway. The $10 million project was a joint venture between the University of New Mexico , which owned the land, and soon-to-be Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller , who was also responsible for construction of the Bank of New Mexico ...
The first Globe Discount City opened in Houston in November 1960 by United Mercantile Inc. United had formed earlier in 1960 to operate the existing seven-store chain of Danburg's Department Stores which had existed since the 1930s and the forthcoming big-box Globe retail locations – the first three of which were each built with over 100,000 square feet of space. [2]
Open at the Albuquerque Museum, "Around We Go: Panoramas in Albuquerque" offers 16 sometimes fish-eyed images of streets, fields and buildings dating from 1915 to 1930.
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The Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes referred to as Tiguex (named after the Southern Tiwa), [3] [4] [5] is a metropolitan area in central New Mexico centered on the city of Albuquerque. The metro comprises four counties: Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia.
Coronado Center is a shopping mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.Built in 1965 by the Homart Development Company, a defunct real-estate division of the department store Sears, the mall has undergone several renovations and expansions in its history which have led to it becoming the largest building by area in New Mexico. [1]