Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
On this date ...
1973: Tucumcari officials learned the Baca-Goodman House at Third and Aber streets in Tucumcari was placed on the New Mexico Historical Register, with a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
Benito Baca built the home in 1905 and later sold it to the Pioneer Goodman family.
The home had been slated for demolition by the an urban development project until encountering local opposition.
City commissioner John Crespin and U.S. bicentennial board member Frances Olsen led the campaign for the designation. The historic designation was removed four years later.
— A two-vehicle accident shoved a car driven by a Mosquero woman into the side of the Pine Lodge Motel on East Tucumcari Boulevard. Neither driver was injured, but the woman was ticketed for failure to yield.
— The Center Street Methodist Church women’s group was scheduled to hold its enchilada dinner for the 28th year. The price was $1.25 a serving.
— The Odeon Theatre was showing the Charles Bronson thriller “The Mechanic” and soon would be screening the Oscar-nominated film about Billie Holiday, “Lady Sings the Blues,” starring Diana Ross.