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Post by Rapid on Mar 23, 2013 19:48:52 GMT -7
Here is a blast from the past! How many of you remember this place? And where it was located? I know it was still there when I graduated in 1976. Not sure when they tore it down...I think maybe sometime in the early '80s. The place was there for a LONG time, my mom still talks about going to Frenchies when she was in high school and she graduated from AHS in 1952. If you ever watched Happy Days this place was like "Arnold's".....a favorite hangout for high school kids, and it was located VERY close to the high school. I got bunches more old pics like this one, some of them are about AHS but a lot of them are not. Lot's of old pics from the 60s, 50s, 40s, and maybe even earlier of downtown Artesia, Main street, stuff like that. May post some of those later. I remember Frenchies I used to go there on my lunch break and order bunch of frys.
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Post by Rapid on Mar 23, 2013 20:00:43 GMT -7
Here is another pic showing the east end of the pool and the waterdogs swim team. Tennis courts are in the background, and then what we use to call the girls gym. Not sure what they call it today. The info I have says that this pic is from 1964. I Remember the old swimming pool. the old diving board.
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Post by m.carrera on Mar 24, 2013 3:56:27 GMT -7
[/IMG] Pictured here, the Artesia High School Bulldogs football team celebrates a sixth championship victory in 1969. The Bulldogs have won many state titles since their first championship in 1957. Artesia’s first football field was finished in 1939 and named Morris Field after city manager P.V. “Pearly” Morris. It was built at a cost $48,026.18, and Pearly personally visited quarries all over New Mexico to select the native stone used in the construction. In 1939, Artesia hosted the state’s first high school championship game, the Gateway Bowl. The Bulldogs did not qualify to play that year, but Artesia went on to host the Gateway Bowl in 1940 and 1941. Following World War II, championship high school football was finally revived in New Mexico in 1953, and the Bulldogs played their last game in Morris Field in November 1966, beating the Highland Hornets 40-14 for the state championship[/quote] I was at this game!!! 1969.....We played Hobbs for the AAAA State Title at Bulldog Bowl. L.G. Henderson (Cooper's Dad) was the coach. Butch Henderson (Cooper's older brother) was the QB. We won 21-8. I was there with my parents...I was 11 years old! [/quote] Crispy I was at that game too! What a game.[/quote] Here is another 1969 Bulldogs Photo [/quote My dad is #60. Thanks for the pic
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Post by crispysdad on Apr 1, 2013 21:12:47 GMT -7
I said earlier in this thread that I have quite a few old pictures.....some of them are of Bulldog stuff, and some of them are NOT! Some of them are just old pics of Artesia. This is one of those! This is a VERY old picture of Main Street looking east. I am guessing that it is probably from the 1880s or 1890s. Notice that Main Street is just a dirt road. Also, notice the horses and buggys...one traveling down Main Street and another one parked at the far right edge of the picture. I also see 2 ladies in very long dresses...one in a white dress crossing the street, and another one in a black dress on the right hand side. Also, hitching posts to tie up your horses on the left side of the pic. Just for reference, the building on the left side that says "Hall Bros" at the top is where the Filter Cafe is today...or was. The building just on this side of the Hall Bros building (extreme left side of the pic) is where Martha's Fabrics is today. The building on the left side of the pic with the men standing under the awning...AND the empty lot just this side of it is where the Ocotillo Performing Arts Center is located today. And of course you can see the First National Bank building on the right hand side...that bank is in the same place today where it has been since day one! I just thought this was a really cool pic of Main Street in Artesia from possibly the late 1800s.......back in the days of the wild wild west, horses and buggys, saloons, gunfighters having shootouts in the middle of Main Street....just like on "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza" if your old enough to remember those 2 TV shows. And for additional reference, but mainly just for the fun of it......I went to Google Earth Street View and lined up the exact same shot as close as I could. Notice that in both pics the first 2 buildings on the left have the same design at the very top of the buildings, that raised block structure. And also, the bank on the right hand side down at the next corner.
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Post by used to be Mr. Pitch on Apr 2, 2013 3:49:07 GMT -7
Not an expert on Artesia history. Just a great place my family migrated to from West Texas for a little while. But I thought Artesia/Miller Siding was a fairly young city. If this is late 1800's and those structures were already there, it must be older than I was always assuming. This picture is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing. Think anyone in this picture wore an orange helmet?
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Post by crispysdad on Apr 2, 2013 5:05:52 GMT -7
Not an expert on Artesia history. Just a great place my family migrated to from West Texas for a little while. But I thought Artesia/Miller Siding was a fairly young city. If this is late 1800's and those structures were already there, it must be older than I was always assuming. This picture is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing. Think anyone in this picture wore an orange helmet? Tom.....you very well could be correct. I just assumed that old pic was from the late 1800s. I found some info about the town's name on the Chamber Of Commerce website. www.artesiachamber.com/vi/his.htmThe first name was "Miller". I have heard of "Miller Siding" as well, but not sure where that came from. The 2nd name was "Stegman". It was changed from Stegman to Artesia in 1903. If you click the link all of that info is in the very first paragraph. I guess the pic could still be from the late 1800s if the pic was taken in the late 1890s and somebody made a postcard a few years later and put "Artesia" at the top of it. Notice that it says "Artesia" at the top of the old pic. I am assuming that this was an old postcard. Who knows. One thing that I just now noticed in that old pic is what looks like a telephone pole on the right hand side. Don't know if it was for electricity.....or telephone.....or telegraph. But whatever it was it looks like there were a crapload of wires, just from looking at how many insulators are on the pole. Five cross-beams with about a dozen insulators each? Wow! Wish I knew the exact year this pic was taken.
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Post by jaxlion82 on Apr 2, 2013 13:43:58 GMT -7
great old pics. thanks for posting
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Post by crispysdad on Apr 3, 2013 4:42:17 GMT -7
great old pics. thanks for posting Hey, no problem! I absolutely LOVE this kind of stuff. With me it is almost an obsession, bordering on "illness". Man, what I wouldn't give for a DeLorean with a flux capacitor capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity. That is a movie reference by the way. I would give almost anything to be able to go back in time like Marty McFly and walk up and down those streets. And the funny thing is that my wife could care less about this kind of stuff! A lot of times we will be out driving around and I am pointing out to her what business use to be in this building back in the 60s or 70s, or who use to live in this house way back in the day and she is sitting over there with her arms crossed and says.........How many times have I told you, I DON'T CARE!!! Totally bored out of her mind, lol. Of course I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that she was not raised in Artesia. She moved here from Tennessee with her parents when she was almost 17 so the history of Artesia doesn't really mean that much to her. Yeah, I've got probably 8-10 more old pics. I wish more of them were football or Bulldogs related, and a few of them are but most of them are just old shots from around town from WAY back. Don't want to post them all at once, so I plan to post maybe 1 or 2 per week to keep this thread going.
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Post by used to be Mr. Pitch on Apr 4, 2013 20:15:35 GMT -7
What about that old fillin' station on main street with all the deer antlers. That place was authentic. Anybody got the story on that?
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Post by crispysdad on Apr 5, 2013 3:19:08 GMT -7
What about that old fillin' station on main street with all the deer antlers. That place was authentic. Anybody got the story on that? Yeah, I remember that. It was called Dunn's Garage and it was on the NE corner of 6th and Main. The guy worked on cars for a living and pretty sure that there were also gas pumps under that huge awning. The underneath side of that awning had so many deer antlers nailed up there I don't think there was room for one more. And he had them right up against each other too, no empty spaces between them. There were hundreds of them, if not a thousand or more. It really was an awesome sight! As far as the story behind it the only thing I know is what my dad told me. After deer season a lot of his customers would donate their antlers and the guy would nail them up on the awning. This went on for years, and years, and years. Not sure what's in that building today, but I THINK it may be an oil field office or something like that. This is what it looks like today..............
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Post by Agent Orange on Apr 5, 2013 10:04:07 GMT -7
In the early days, hunters skinned and prepared game themselves. Later, the Artesia Locker Plant provided this service for them. The locker plant also offered Deepfreeze storage of meats and would grind sausage to order. Shown here around 1950 are, from left to right Winters, Allen Pears, and owner Sie Hogsett.
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Post by Agent Orange on Apr 5, 2013 10:06:09 GMT -7
Abo School was a worldwide sensation when it opened in 1962. Architect Frank Standhart and Artesia Public Schools superintendent Vernon Mills were interviewed countless times as media representatives from all over the world descended on Artesia. Students from the early years became accustomed to having tour groups of curious visitors traipse through their classrooms. Because the school was underground, it was felt that students would be able to concentrate better on their lessons, as there were no windows to look out of, and the air-conditioning system was thought to help children with allergies and asthma. The Federal Civil Defense Administration paid $131,943 of the costs in return for the chance to test new construction technologies and experiment with new educational forms and functions. In this photograph, students perform a drill in May 1967.
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Post by GoDogs on Apr 5, 2013 10:52:42 GMT -7
I can still remember the duck and cover drills from when I was in grade school. When I got older, I always wondered what good they really thought that would do if we actually did get nuked. Then I saw Dr. Strangelove and "learned how to stop worrying and love the bomb" (ha-ha).
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Post by used to be Mr. Pitch on Apr 6, 2013 5:53:44 GMT -7
Pretty neat photo of Abo. Minus the village west apartments in the background. The picture is of the southwest corner/entry to the school. I Remember it like it was yesterday. Great teachers, great kids, great times and great memories! I remember catching many a pass from future Bulldog QB Robby Ballew on that playground. We had the most athetic-minded folks running that school you could ever imagine. Mr. Bach and Mr. Tillery throwing passes and putting together agility relays at lunch was fun stuff. We got after it on the annual field day to Bulldog Bowl for the Elementary track meet. That was serious business. Very demanding and competitive classroom atmosphere as well. Sad thing is parents often don't want too much asked of their kids anymore. That was a fantastic school. I'd gladly enroll my young'uns in a school like that today!
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Post by crispysdad on Apr 6, 2013 13:33:55 GMT -7
Randall......I remember the Artesia Locker Plant very well. They basically rented freezer space. Back in the late 1960s my dad bought all of our beef on the hoof. He would buy a steer from one of his rancher buddys, take it to Payne Packing in a horse trailer and have it butchered and wrapped in that white paper. Only problem was that very few people have a freezer big enough to stick a whole cow in, and we were no exception. So my parents would put as much of it in our freezer as they could and take the rest of it to the Artesia Locker Plant and put it in one of their huge freezers. Each freezer had a lock on it and we had our own key so we could go down there when ever we wanted and box up what we needed and bring it home. I even remember where it was located, and I didn't even have to look it up, lol. It was right there at the intersection of 13th and Richardson, on the west side of 13th facing east. Pretty much where the Bulldog Pit is today. If you left the high school and headed west down Richardson, when you pulled up to the stop sign on 13th at the corner of Morris Field you were looking right at it.
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Post by crispysdad on Apr 6, 2013 14:52:35 GMT -7
Mr. Pitch.......I never went to Abo. I went to Hermosa for my entire elementary school career back in the 60s. But our son, our one and only child, went to Abo. In fact, he was in one of the last classes that went to both Abo AND Yeso. He graduated from AHS in 2004. I think it was the summer between his 3rd grade and 4th grade year at Abo when they began construction on the new Yeso School right next door to Abo. So he started 1st grade at Abo, but went to Yeso for 5th grade.
Back when I was in the 6th grade at Hermosa (elementary was grades 1-6 back then) we had what was called "6th Grade Football". I don't remember who ran it...don't know if it was a city league or if it was run by the school system, too may years ago, lol. But anyway, boys in the 6th grade (this was 1969 or so) had their first chance at organized football when they got into the 6th grade. I think there were 6 teams. And it was FULL CONTACT football with pads and helmets, not flag football. We were 11-12 years old and our coaches were yanking us around by the face mask and chewing us out for not going full out and knocking the snot out of each other. That would never happen today, sadly. We had our 6th Grade Football practice at ABO! On the playground immediately to the west of Abo. That is where Yeso Elementary is located today. MAN, how I cherished those water breaks!!! Even though we were only 11-12 years old we only got one water break during practice! Water was for the weak! Even back in the day! I still remember my coach's name...Judge Don Price!
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Post by bdogfan on Apr 6, 2013 15:13:20 GMT -7
Judge Price, he was my cub scout leader. I think he was the overseer of the all the scouts. His son Tommy was a good friend of mine in high school, unfortunately he fell ill and went home with the Almighty Father. I remember Judge price teach us a song I Think was titled, Eating Goober Peas....I enjoyed my human experience as a scout in Artesia with judge Price. Is he still alive?
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Post by Agent Orange on Apr 7, 2013 8:30:20 GMT -7
Water for the weak lol, man that wouldn't fly today would it ha ha. I remember Don Price, member of my church for years, I think they moved a few years back.
Abo is still there, I've heard rumors before they wanted to just fill it up, it's mainly been used for storage for the schools, lot of old books and tons of old computers were down there, but most of that stuff has been removed and computers taken to an E-Waste dumpster, hadn't been down there in a few years now, I think police have used it to do some training as well. Kinda cool to finally see it when I started at the schools, I went to Hermosa as well and never seen it before.
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Post by used to be Mr. Pitch on Apr 7, 2013 12:25:35 GMT -7
I google imaged Abo School and saw an overhead view of the floor plan. I rememberede it almost exactly.
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Post by BGP on Apr 7, 2013 22:32:27 GMT -7
I went to Abo, we always told people our basketball courts were on top of the school, sure got some funny looks!
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