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Patrick Riley
It's definately the big white building on the right side of the street (southwest corner of Main and Third). I worked at the First National Bank after school my junior and senior years. I was the night transist clerk and was the last one to close, lock and leave the bank every evening having microfilmed, totaled, bundled, enveloped, and transported all the checks drawn on out-of-town banks to the Roswell Post Office's rear night dock for mailing to our 14 correspondent banks. I was paid $200 a month with no overtime regardless of how long I worked. All 14 batches had to balance to totals computed by the posting department before they could go out.
On good days, I was finished by early evening; on bad days, I was there past midnight.
The building on the northwest corner is/was/became the J.P. White Building. The building across Main on the southeast corner is/was/became, I think, the Hinkle Building. Both buildings became higher, ~ five to six stories, in later years. The J.P. White Building was completed, I think, in 1912 ... the year New Mexico became a state. It wasn't called the J.P. White Building then.
My mom worked for J.P. White whose office was on the top floor. The entrance to the J.P. White building was on Third Street rather than Main. Back then, it had an elevator with a real-person elevator operator.
Question, how many of you lined Main Street to watch the Eastern New Mexico State Fair Parade each year?
You can tell this is an old photo ... no parking meters.
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