The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

April 11, 1918: Former Governor William C. McDonald, First State Executive, Dies at El Paso

Pioneer Cattleman for Forty Years a New Mexican. Democratic Leader and Valuable Citizen, Succumbs to Disease. Death Heavy Loss to His Party and His State. Funeral at Carrizozo.

April 11, 1968: Gov. David F. Cargo says Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, the former movie star, has given him some ideas on attracting the movie industry to New Mexico. Cargo said he spent about 10 minutes talking movies with Reagan when the Californian visited Albuquerque Tuesday for a press conference and a Republican luncheon address.

Reagan invited him to talk more about setting up film locations in New Mexico next month in California, Cargo said.

April 11, 1993: The mammoth granite slabs that rest outside Captain Marble on Cerrillos Road could soon become grave markers for the business Fran and William Reynolds took 20 years to build.

If Smith’s Food and Drug Centers Inc. constructs the 77,000-square-foot facility it has proposed for the property, the plot where Captain Marble now stands will be buried beneath a 450-space parking lot.

“It’s hard,” said Fran Reynolds, who leases the building Captain Marble occupies. “We came here 20 years ago basically with nothing and worked hard with our hands to build something. It may not look like much, but this is our life’s work.”

Catellus Development Corp., owner of the property the Reynolds’ stonecutting business rests on, has signed a 20-year lease with Smith’s, which wants to construct a “supercombination food and drug unit” on the land near Cerrillos Road and Baca Street.