December 9, 2017 Breakfast – Charlie’s in Las Vegas. Lunch – La Choza in Santa Fe. Dinner – nuts and cheese
We woke at 6:00 and dressed and arrived at Charlie’s at 7:00. Looking at the vast interior of Charlie’s makes me realize that the real estate market in Las Vegas has vast amounts of commercial space that is being rented for very low rents. The key seems to be adaptive uses that can survive in a low demand market with crumbling infrastructure. Here are photos of Charlie’s
Suzette got her coffee fix and I drank water to clear my system. We both ordered Machaca, roast beef, green Chile, onion, and bits of softened corn tortilla and tomato cooked into a cloud of whipped eggs.. I ordered beans with mine and Suzette ordered cottage fries with hers.
After breakfast we drove back to the Montezuma Castle, which used to be a Harvey House located next a hot springs about ten miles out of Las Vegas. It is now a college. We visited the Dwan Chapel which has a large number of glass prisms embedded in its ceiling and walls to cascade rainbows of
color throughout the building when the sun shines. Here are a few photos.
We the drove back to the square and spent an hour going to the weekly farmer’s market in the old drug store on one corner of the square, where we bought fresh daikon and turnips, and then the Lady of Sorrow Paris’s Crafts Fair, which was housed in the Palm Ballroom. Suzette bought several origami paper boxes for $2.00 each and I drank a large chai and blogged in the Coffee shop in the build g connected to the ballroom by a hallway and blogged while Suzette shopped.
Plaza Antiques
At 10:00 we walked to Plaza Antiques on the West Side of the plaza. We did not find anything of interest but did ask and were told about another antique store named Rough Rider Antiques located across the street from the old Castaneda Hotel. The Castaneda Hotel is the old Harvey House beside the railroad station. It is being remodeled and it’s architecture reminds me of the Alvarado Hotel that used to be located in Albuquerque. The Rough RiderMuseum is in Las Vegas but we did not see it. Many of the Rough Riders were recruited in Las Vegas and it held its only reunion in Las Vegas in the 1890’s. The Rough rider Museum was a large building that has been renovated filled with all types of antiques. I duped not find a valuable Southwest Modernist Painting, but I did bought a lovely 1943 steel Lincoln head penny in almost uncirculated condition for $1.50 and Suzette bought four more Frankoma wagon wheel plates for $40.00, which takes her from a less than desirable number of 7 plates to a very acceptable total of 11 plates. We were both thrilled.
We then drove back to Santa Fe to Max and Jane’s House on the far southern end of Cerrilos. Suzette took the car and went shopping at Restore It, while Max and Jane and I talked. After talking for a while, we decided to go to lunch. I suggested La Choza and everyone agreed because Max wanted to show us his house on Quintana he is remodeling. At La Choza Max ordered Huevos Rancheros, Jane ordered fish tacos with blue corn, and Suzette and I split an enchilada plate with ground beef, red chili, extra onions, and double posole. Suzette and I each ordered a Negra Modelo. Jane ordered a ginger ale and Max drank water.
We had a great conversation and caught up on their recent trip to San Miguel de Allende. After lunch Max drove us to his home on Quintana St. that he is remodeling, which is nearly finished. My job will be to negotiate the patio of Max’s unpaid mortgage in the foreclosure lawsuit in which I am representing him.
After visiting the house on Quintana, which is located north of Alameda, east of St. Francis, and west
of Guadalupe, we drove back to our car, said goodbye, and drove to Stephen’s Consignment, where I found two lovely framed Christmas ornaments made by Harry Fonseca for $200.00. Here is a picture of them.
Suzette wanted to go to a consignment shop that Jane mentioned was going out of business near the corner of Siler Rd. and Agua Fria, so after Stephen’s we drove there. Suzette found four large hand made umbrellas that she will use for decorating the large tent that she sets up in the park at the Center for Ageless Living for special occasions for $125.00.
We then drove back to Albuquerque, filled up the car with gas at Costco, and drove home.
Neither of us was hungry. We each drank another Negra Modelo to wash down lunch and nibbled on crackers and cheese and peanuts and watched a movie, “The Jane Austen Book Club”.
I had not slept well in Las Vegas, so I went to bed at 9:00.p after a full day.
Bon Appetit
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