Scott’s Adventures in New Mexico
Tram Ride On Vacation
The Sandia Mountains are pink at dusk. The setting western sun turns them the color of watermelons, for which they were named by indigenous Indians thousands of years ago. Sandia's peaks were thrust up in the last ten million years during the formation...
Snakes At the Rattlesnake Museum
Snakes don't have fingers, toes, arms, or legs. They are coldblooded and need sun to get stirring. Cultures throughout human history have worshiped them, reviled them, and eaten them. For photography and curiosity reasons, Joan, visiting from Boston, has...
Mother Road Route 66 through New Mexico
Route 66 is the most famous United States highway that joined others to became the U.S. Interstate Highway system that linked our 50 states, made remote places accessible, let restless spirits roam to where they belonged, spawned a history of music,...
3 Cups a Day Drink till you drop
The saying used to be " An apple a day keeps the Doctor Away. " In 2017, there were 27,339 Starbucks stores globally. Back in World War 2, coffee kept pilots awake on long flights to targeted cities, helped wives and girlfriends who watched...
Pay in Advance Old Economics
In 2018, it still costs to park, but inflation has kicked up the price. In older times, Albuquerque Old Town visitors would pull their 55 Chevy's into parking spots under towering cottonwoods, next to adobe walls built in the early nineteen hundreds....
The Gang’s All Here McDonald's
Five o' clock a.m. comes early and us boys head to the McDonalds at Lomas and Juan Tabo in Albuquerque most every morning of the week. Some of us read the newspaper, others do crosswords, some eat, most drink coffee, most tell jokes that are occasionally...
Home Sweet Home Home Sweet Home
Home bases take different looks. They can be hotel rooms, bungalows, RV's, tents, apartments, houses, townhouses.They can be overlooking the Atlantic in Uruguay, lost in the Andes, on Caribbean shores with palms and yachts, standing on stilts in a...
Midway Blues Amusements
Bennett's Amusements moves in the day before an event, fences off their area at the Festival, back up huge equipment trucks, rides, and promotions. Agile carnies pick up wrenches and assemble a superstructure of steel connected by hundreds of feet of...
Mickey’s New Employee Work Trends
McDonalds was one of the first corporate giants to infiltrate American communities with cheap hamburgers, fast food, employee training programs, marketing strategies, toys for the kids, drive up windows, extended operating hours. You can dine in any...
Driving Range Rainbow Los Altos Golf Course
Los Altos Golf Course was built in the 1960's, near Eubank and Copper in Albuquerue. Owned and operated by the City of Albuquerque, this public links course is open to all. In an age of dwindling play, escalating water costs, cries of environmental...
Football Wars Between the goalposts
Old men plot wars in back rooms and give speeches.Young men hold rifles and die on the battlefield. Football is an American preoccupation and between the goalposts this evening plays out a game that has referees and it's own set of rules. Halftime is...
1950’s Hamburger Stand Old Photos
Old photos, especially black and white, have a nostalgic quality. They often have no names or dates on the back, have edges that are dogeared or brown, wrinkles, mustaches drawn in with ball point pens by pranksters. They are sometimes in albums but...
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