***Roswell is that main street is locked in a time machine for the most part.***
That’s because when
Walker AFB closed back in 1967, Roswell lost all the military payrolls. Walker AFB was the life blood of Roswell.
Many of the businesses in town took the airmen to the cleaners, and when word got out that the base was closing, the city did all it could to squeeze the last dollar out of the military.
Roswell went from a town of 90,000 to 30,000 overnight.