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Just for fun, a few months ago, Johnny and I drove around Roswell and took a few pictures of buildings. The picture on the 'Home Page' is one. City of Roswell is scheduled to demolish this building.

Can any of you name it ??

11/03/18 12:35 PM

#5133

It is in fact the old South Jr. High building which has been used for years as the Yucca Recreation Center. However, because it didn't meet the requirements of disabled patrons, it was abandoned and will be demolished...kind of sad I think.

11/03/18 12:46 PM

#5134

This one has a sign too. Yucca Recreation Center. So it's fiction although part of this place was once part of South Junior High when we went there in the fifties.

11/03/18 01:00 PM

#5135

Of course when we went there back in the fifties, it looked quite a bit like this. So the old building had at least four different names over its lifetime.

11/03/18 06:14 PM

#5136

Fred Miller

Rex, email me contact info at fmiller119@gmail.com.

We will set something up. I should be in town from 11/8 to 11/11. Most of my time will be spent with my Mom.

Fred

11/04/18 04:18 PM

#5137

Bill Leggett

REX on your comment And that, John L... is why you always feel smarter after a few beers... I always through that made you think you could beat up everyone in A Bar Fight An that is a Fact

REX By the way a belated Happy Birthday.

11/06/18 05:25 PM

#5138

Fiction: Not North Jr. High. It is the Old Roswell High School aka, South Jr. High aka Yucca Jr. High

11/06/18 06:58 PM

#5139

John Landess

Pat, I agree that it is kind of sad to see old historical buildings demolished.

I went to South there (fearfully) to start the 7th grade, and a part of the eighth. Then on to Farmington, and then back to North... Kind of a nomad existence!! Then East for the 9th.. If there had been a West, I could have boxed the compass!!!

In Cape Girardeau Missouri, they took the old Shultz High School (3 stories of red brick and stone) converted it into senior apartments, along with an elevator, and all the exercise areas, meeting rooms, etc. It was (is) really nice. I had one uncle and then an aunt live there, That is what ought to be done to nice old buildings.

11/06/18 09:11 PM

#5140

John and Pat, I hated to see the old Post Office go. It was a great old building and was perfect for offering a few ENMU-R classes downtown for convenience to employees of businesses nearby. I'm glad the old Greyhound Terminal got recycled. Two smaller buildings that were lost when the current library was built were the old Telephone Building on W. 3rd at the alley and an old church building named Rock Haven which had been turned into apartments. It was on the SE corner of 4th and Penn. I think Bill Madison and his wife has an interesting gift shop in the old Phone building at one time. There was even a movement to replace the county courthouse in the late sixties. Fortunately that failed for long enough to do the upgraded and expanded courthouse that now graces downtown. And of course the school system has done well saving some of their old buildings, including Pueblo. I really hope that the current mood is to try to repurpose the best of Roswell's historical buildings. They help give the city character.

11/07/18 06:07 PM

#5141

Jim Qualls,

Happy Birthday Jimmy. Had a great time visiting with you last month when you came down to Roswell. It is amazing all the stories we told which occured while at RHS and in between our class reunions. Salt of the earth stuff.

Don't be a stranger now, OK?

11/08/18 09:38 AM

#5142

Patrick Riley,

Hope you have a great one on your birthday!

11/08/18 04:23 PM

#5143

Fred Miller

Bill Leggett....also after a few beers the women start to look better.

11/09/18 11:00 AM

#5144

Bill Leggett

FRED MILLER you for got the words at closing time, just kidding ladies

11/09/18 07:23 PM

#5145

Jail House Rock!!

Am surprised Weathers didn't jump in on this one...

Elvis is still Alive!!!

11/09/18 08:35 PM

#5146

Happy belated birthday, Harvey.....hope it was a GREAT one!

11/10/18 08:14 PM

#5147

Fred Miller

Pat, Monday I will be flying over yours and David's place from Roswell back to Dallas. I will wave at you two as I fly over..

11/10/18 08:35 PM

#5148

Harvey, your birthday cake sounds wonderful! Tell Margie I said "hi".

Fred, we'll watch for you and wave!!

11/11/18 09:20 AM

#5149

We are honored to have you who served in our class and we thank you. Pat and David

11/14/18 11:11 AM

#5150

Before RCC, it was the old post office. I remember it both as Post Office and as RCC. I did buy 3 cent stamps and penny post cards there in 1950 as a kid; then 14 years later I took an English class there while it was RCC.

11/14/18 03:39 PM

#5151

Mark Meiering

My Dad was Postmaster in Roswell as well as Regional Postmaster for the southwest region. At Christmas time, Dad stayed at that Post Office late into the night. As a boy, I remember Mom driving down to the loading dock at that building and I would run in with a plate of food to leave on Dad's desk for dinner. Sometimes at Cristmas time, I would go with him to the railroad depot, as the "rolling PO car" attached to the SF passenger train brought in the US mail for Roswell. Dad would be there to make certain that the Christmas packages were handled properly and got to the Roswell addressees promptly. Except for my brother and me, he would hire high school and college men to man National Guard trucks to get those packages delivered. (Good Christmas holiday pay for young men (other than me and my brother)

Up on the top floor of that building was a Federal courtroom, rarely used except by little kid me pretending to preside over imaginary legal proceedings. Many fond memories attached to that old grand building.

11/14/18 07:11 PM

#5152

Mark-

I was quite fascinated with the old open cage elevator and the WPA Artist Project mural. As I remember, the mural was either outside or inside the old courtroom. I'm sure you know a lot more about it than I remember.

11/15/18 04:54 PM

#5153

Mark Meiering

Yes David, that "cage" elevator was a novelty in The Big R. I think the mural was on the wall in the hallway to the courtroomdoor but I am not certain. I don't recall the artist (being young and ignorant of art) but there are many such murals from the WPA era in federal buildings in NM. The old courthouses in Gallup and in Las Vegas have such, and UNM's Zimmerman library does too.

11/20/18 09:45 PM

#5154

John Landess

WOW, this site sure has been quiet.... where is REX?????

Anywho..... Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Even with all the turmoil in the world and here in the good ol' U.S. of A,,, there is plenty to be thankful for. So Happy Turkey Day to all.

11/21/18 07:52 PM

#5155