The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: July 31, 1917: Some time ago the New Mexican mentioned the streets of Santa Fe and suggested that state convicts could be secured to work them.

The dry weather is said to be responsible in large degree for the execrable condition of the unpaved streets and roads in and around the city. But you can’t rely alone on good weather to maintain roads. It takes an occasional pick and shovel during the course of a year. The average citizen, unless he stops to cogitate, cannot remember when any noticeable work was done on Santa Fe’s thoroughfares. You have to look it up in the Blue Hook, or Who’s Who, or Twitchett’s History, or something.

Is there no human way in which we can have these automobilewrecking avenues smoothed down and filled up a little: There were never so many cars in Santa Fe. They are increasing all the time. Santa Fe is a “motorist” center extraordinary. The roads in Santa Fe’s outskirts are the worst they find, coming or going. In the city the automobilist has to grit his teeth and hang onto the roof of the car. The condition of these roads is fierce. Can’t we do a thing for them?

July 31, 1967: TECOLOTE — Reies Tijerina has begun what he says will be a series of rallies to raise funds for legal defenses. At Tecolote Sunday, Tijerina made his first speaking engagement outside Albuquerque since his release on bail last Tuesday from the State Prison. Speaking for more than an hour in the crowded Tecolote grade school. Tijerina compared the Spanish Americans to the Negro residents of Detroit in a fiery speech, interrupted several times by applause.

“The time is right for us to get rid of fear,” he said. Tijerina said later he is not advocating violence but wants the people to stand up for their rights.