The success of Dying in a city: Out with the old. During a recent visit to the once-thriving town southwest of Tucumcari, New Mexico, located in Quay County on "Historic Route 66," I wondered how companies survived the economy during this wade, especially since the city was spraying to failure for more than a decade. The universe responded to my request with Aware of this example of how it was doing business with her, while the eldest was not business.
Once called "Six Shooter Siding," Tucumcari was founded in 1901 as a camp for railroad construction. The 2000 census was 11 little people of the declaration of a population of 6000, but the number has declined since then. The town is 7.5 miles square. Stores in Tucumcari that exude a level of success are rare, they are few, whose windows are not prohibited or condemned. The most important are banks like Wells Fargo and the Federal Credit Union of everyone. (Yes, that's true name of the fund). Except with his own, almost a modern architecture, Mesalands Community College seems that the aliens had plop down one evening to an end without the knowledge of the local population. [But I could not logically equate this event with Roswell, New Mexico, far to the south.]
On Main Street in Tucumcari "city", the business plan that said, "success" was Pajarito Interiors, owned and operated by Ruth Nelson, an interior designer who (according to local news items) has graduated from the University of Hawaii and moved to New Mexico for years in Oregon, there are several. Pajarito Interiors Santa Fe adobe style facade was clean, his work without charge and stucco cracks. He had obviously been recently redesigned and updated in relation to buildings, up and down the street and sat poor condition, the windows boarded against vandalism, and have long since abandoned. A lean, carcass of a bird feather now unidentifiable medium-sized prey lay crushed in a glass case the raptor had accidentally by air and failed in his escape. He remained in memory of his sufferings, how long has been an enigma. The building adjacent to Pajarito Interiors, linked by a common wall was Sables Dosey Drugstore. It burned a year ago. His partially burned black walls remained half standing structure reminiscent of a bombed from the recent war that nobody had ever heard. Its long history destroyed in what should be a matter of hours.
Ruth Nelson store is stocked with high-end home furnishings and decorative items. The interior walls hold a neutral shade that complements all the other colors available on single tables apparently one-of-a-kind, sofas, chairs and objects de arte. The luminous ceiling partitions gently light the special showcase furniture like a table in high fashion with a pair of plush upholstered chairs to match. In Tucumcari, with about 80% of its population living on public assistance, there was an immediate mystery as to who among the locals could afford such exquisite items.
In an interview, Ruth Nelson said she moved to Tucumcari, when she saw a man she thought she could spend the rest of his life, than to be Donald Schutte, lawyer and former district judge now state. election (having been originally appointed by the Governor, Schutte lost last November with his opponent winning by 2 votes against 1.) In sections of local news, Nelson and Schutte have expressed plans to dramatically improve downtown of Tucumcari as they have fulfilled a key role in the "Main Street" initiative in its mission to "bring Tucumcari." Nelson said his company was doing well, but there was a time when it was the realization of $ 7,000 $ 10,000 in sales per week. This figure sounds strangely exaggerated if I studied further to discover the secret of how a business woman could be.
Posted on May 16, 2010.
