***LOL Me don’t thinks he’s ever been there. Former town name Rattlesnake Flats. :>}***
I used to live on north Lake St. close to the high school before they built the new one up Church st.
We watched KAVE in Carlsbad and listened to KAVE radio. It signed off at 11:00 each night. The other radio station was for “old” people. At night we listened to “Yours truely KOMA!” out of OKC.
We watched “Dadyo” Don Husted try to sell cars during commercial breaks during the movies.
Only one TV station. KAVE. The other TV station from Roswell lost it’s tower at Caprock during an ice storm.
There was no communication with major networks. Everything on TV in Carlsbad had to be shipped in in cans. Everything for Carlsbad was last week’s national broadcast.
The high school team was the Cavemen. Eisenhower jr. High school was the Cavekids.
In the summer they would plow up the football field and have a Rodeo there.
One time during school a student found a stick of dynamite and set it off at night near the high school. I knew the boy.
In 1961 two girls were murdered there. When we left the next year we read that a man had been arrested in Texas for the crime.
Yep. I guess I wasn’t there.
If Hillary! is elected it goes in New Mexico for sure.
Right behind the mailbox that says “Richardson”.
KOMA! Brings me back to HS days.... that and XROC!
susie
I know one thing real well about Carlsbad. At the foot of the microwave tower in the center of town is McDonald’s. :>} I was visiting family there about 14 years ago. My brother in law helped design the waste site. The Caverns were awesome. A real great place to escape the heat also.