ABQ Marketplace on Louisiana has eclipsed Winrock Center, the original Albuquerque Mall.
While Winrock is now huge piles of dirt, exposed steel, jack hammered asphalt, chain link fences and construction signs, ABQ Marketplace is stocked with big name stores, food and restaurants, and stylish clothes that are already moving out of style. This evening shoppers jockey for parking spots and neon lights compete for human attention.
I sit outside the Apple Store and wait for Ruby to finish browsing Bebe’s. Watching her decide between dresses is a lot like watching paint dry and it goes easier if I sit out front and surf the net to see what Russia, China and the United States are up too in their latest wrestling match.
The Apple Logo is prominently mounted, above the Apple store’s front doors, highlighted by a spotlight. In diminishing light, clouds look as if they are plotting rain.
As powerful a mind as Steve Jobs had, he has moved on and other’s have picked up reins of his wagon and are driving it hellbent down winding mountain roads as outlaws try to steal his intellectual property.
Taking a bite out of an Apple has historic repercussions.
We still pay for Adam and Eve’s first unauthorized bite.
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alan
on August 3, 2015 at 5:08 pm
Enjoyed your latest posts! Didn’t realise winrock was now on hospice care? I remember when it first went in and we could ride our bikes through the arroyo over toward the junior high school next door….what was it called? In my senior moment I have forgotten? Did you ever go there? It seems to me maybe you went to that school for a year? Maybe before the infamous Van Buren where I remember mom driving us up to register and we witnessed a rock fight as we drove up! Lol
Hi alan – winrock is getting a makeover but not sure how they will do. coronado is just down the street and still doing well. winrock got hurt because some of the stores renting there went under – Borders books etc. I thought some developer would do well to buy the land and build upscale loft apartments.
Was that Wilson Jr. High? Or was in Monroe…..that named finally leaped into my demented memory banks? Lol Some president or other? Didn’t you go there for one year before we moved to the Van Buren district? I always more recently have found it humorous that Charley was an asst. Principal at VB…given your history there! What a pit that was….and probably still is! From the rock fight it went downhill from there! With one exception….I remember a gòod friend of mine from those days…..a chap named Ronald King who was an army brat and probably used to sticking up for himself….was goaded into a fight with a Felix Herrera who rode our bus….and Ron handed me his jacket before the fight……when he then proceeded to absolutely clean Felix’s clock! None of Felix’s Tijeras canyon buddies came to his rescue….much to my relief….and my friend Ron came and got his jacket….and had no more trouble with Mr. Hererra! Lol. I wonder what ever became of Ron? I remember we did a few hikes up into Embudo canyon….and I think I might have had him over once or twice to spend the night at 803, …..but my memory is vague at this point! (
Enjoyed your latest posts! Didn’t realise winrock was now on hospice care? I remember when it first went in and we could ride our bikes through the arroyo over toward the junior high school next door….what was it called? In my senior moment I have forgotten? Did you ever go there? It seems to me maybe you went to that school for a year? Maybe before the infamous Van Buren where I remember mom driving us up to register and we witnessed a rock fight as we drove up! Lol
Hi alan – winrock is getting a makeover but not sure how they will do. coronado is just down the street and still doing well. winrock got hurt because some of the stores renting there went under – Borders books etc. I thought some developer would do well to buy the land and build upscale loft apartments.
Was that Wilson Jr. High? Or was in Monroe…..that named finally leaped into my demented memory banks? Lol Some president or other? Didn’t you go there for one year before we moved to the Van Buren district? I always more recently have found it humorous that Charley was an asst. Principal at VB…given your history there! What a pit that was….and probably still is! From the rock fight it went downhill from there! With one exception….I remember a gòod friend of mine from those days…..a chap named Ronald King who was an army brat and probably used to sticking up for himself….was goaded into a fight with a Felix Herrera who rode our bus….and Ron handed me his jacket before the fight……when he then proceeded to absolutely clean Felix’s clock! None of Felix’s Tijeras canyon buddies came to his rescue….much to my relief….and my friend Ron came and got his jacket….and had no more trouble with Mr. Hererra! Lol. I wonder what ever became of Ron? I remember we did a few hikes up into Embudo canyon….and I think I might have had him over once or twice to spend the night at 803, …..but my memory is vague at this point! (
Monroe was the Jr. high where Winrock is. We went to Van Buren Junior High, a substandard President and a sunstandard Junior High…
Monroe was the Jr. high where Winrock is. We went to Van Buren Junior High, a substandard President and a sunstandard Junior High…