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Permalink Reply by Donald E. George on September 15, 2011 at 10:50am

Thank you for your comments Lee. Hope you will continue. I can't recall Burger Chef.You are right about the bank at Central and San Pedro being a First National Bank,not an Albuquerque National Bank as I had stated earlier.I remember ANB opening a brach in Winrock on the northeast side across from Strombergs.  

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Permalink Reply by Lee Williams on September 16, 2011 at 1:54pm

Yes, I remember the bank by Strombergs. It was kind of green creme colored. Do you remember the UPSCALE store there in Winrock? Think back, you'll remember! Also, remember when there was a Safeway at Winrock. Imagine that, a grocery store at the mall. I also remember Coffee Dan's there at the front of the mall and the White Winrock Hotel. The upscale restaurant was Diamond Jim's.

From my last post: the Burger Chef buildings are on Central, one by Old Town, one acrss the street from the Fair Gronds , and one just past Wyoming. All on the south side of Central

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Permalink Reply by Donald E. George on September 16, 2011 at 4:34pm

I remember the Safeway,it was the last store on the west side for a few years. I believe Penneys was just east of Safeway. I remember taking a date to Diamond Jim's many years ago,it didn't help if you know what I mean. Except for occasional visits,I was gone from Albuquerque by January of 1972 and can't remember Burger Chef. I ate a lot of burgers at Bob's Drive-In in about the 7600 bock of Central SE. That would have been in the fifties.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Williams on September 16, 2011 at 4:56pm

The UPSCALE store there in Winrock I was referring to was Fedway's.  Also, do you know how the name "Winrock" came about?

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Permalink Reply by Abqtina on September 16, 2011 at 8:05pm

Don't think so!  Fedway was at Coronado, the Mervyn's/Kohl's building; but, originally was downtown on Copper. Winrock was  from Win Rockafeller.  Can't remember his whole first name. Winfred or Winston something like that.  He was Nelson Rockafeller's brother I think. He was from Arkansas and was the owner of Winrock.  Winrock was originally an open air mall with a canopy covering the mallDon't think so!  Fedway was at Coronado, the Mervyn's/Kohl's building; but, originally was downtown on Copper. Winrock was  from Win Rockafeller.  Can't remember his whole first name. Winfred or Winston something like that.  He was Nelson Rockafeller's brother I think. He was from Arkansas and was the owner of Winrock.  Winrock was originally an open air mall with a canopy covering the mall.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Williams on September 16, 2011 at 10:03pm

Sorry to say you are incorrect, I guess you think wrong. The location of the Mervyns (where you think Fedway was) was a Liberty House store immediatly prior to it becoming a Mervyns. Before it was a Liberty House it was a Rhodes which was one of the original anchor stores at Coronado. Thus, it was NEVER a Fedways. Fedways was a unit of Federated Department Stores. Dillards bought some units of Federated including the one at Winrock and renamed them Dillards. Winrock was named after Winthrop Rockerfeller.

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Permalink Reply by Donald E. George on September 17, 2011 at 9:55am

Right you are Lee. Fedway was located at the northeast end of the original Winrock,adjacent to the ABN branch bank. Stores on the east side of Winrock  included Wards, H Cook Sporting Goods,Stromberg's Mens Wear. There were one or two stores between Stromberg's and Cooks but I can't recall what they were. Can you help Lee? I was last at Winrock in the nineties and it was completely changed from the 1961 center. I remember going to the grand opening and it was a nice change from having to shop downtown or Nob Hill. 

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Permalink Reply by Lee Williams on September 17, 2011 at 1:25pm

George, do you remember that in the south end of Wards there was a wards restaurant/smack bar? Even though Wards has been gone a long while I still have a few things in my house from them. I can't remember the two stores by Strombergs/Cooks. Let me think about it awhile. I never shopped at Nob Hill. I did shop at Highland Shopping Center They had a Penney's, Lerners, and a Rasco or Sarco, and a McLennans. They were down the street from the Whites, which was 3 stories. Speaking of ANB, do you remember the phone numer for their time and temp. I called it hundreds of times thru the years. I bet whoever has that number now still gets call for time and Temp. Getting back to Winrock, do you remember that Wards had an auto center, too?

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Permalink Reply by Donald E. George on September 17, 2011 at 6:02pm

Yes, I remember the snack bar in Wards. One of my brothers worked at Whites shortly after it opened. I think that was about 1957 of 58.Can't recall the time/temp phone number at ANB. I had a set of Wards tires on my 54 Ford which lasted me through college. Wards at Winrock had a sattelite tire and auto store out east of the main store. It was the first store one passed when entering from the Pennsylvania entrance. I spent WWII years watching lots of good movies at the LOBO in Nob Hill. I recall that some of the apartments under construction along Pennsylvania at Winrock caught fire and a large section burned to the ground before the fire was extinguished. Have a nice weekend. I just watched Nebraska beat Washington for the second time in twelve months. Now to see if OU can take Florida.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Williams on September 17, 2011 at 8:57pm

The phone number for time and temp was: 247-1611. It would go like this. "Fix up your home with a loan from Alb National Bank; time: 8:45 pm, temperature 88". I remember the Wards Auto and when the apts started fire. Speaking of fires do you remember when the Masonic Temple burned? The first time I went to the Lobo it was "Benjamin", a movie in French. I didn’t go there again until it started showing dollar movies. Do you remember the Fox Winrock theatre. I think it had a curved screen and showed movies with three cameras at once, Cinerama or something like that. I saw Hercules at the State Theatre. The line went all the way to the alley. I grew-up around Quincy and Constitution area.

Permalink Reply by Rand Rensvold on October 11, 2011 at 8:16am

Hi Lee,

Funny thing about the old Liberty House in Coronado. I was just out of high school when I was employed by Liberty House. A few months after I started, the store went out of business. I stayed on to help liquidate the inventory and clean up in preparation of the remodel for Mervyn's. While cleaning out all of the stockrooms, I came across a walled off area. There was a small hole in the drywall where I could see in and see fixtures and signage from days gone by. I received permission to bust down a wall and what we found was amazing. There was old signage from the 60's, old props that were displays for the Rhode's Department store you had mentioned, and a old trunk. This old trunk turned out to be a display used by Rhode's many years ago. It was a Jack Daniels distillery kit. Quite a find. The person in charge of the liquidation let me keep that old trunk and I had it for many years. I do not know what happened to it now.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Williams on October 16, 2011 at 6:49pm

Hi Rand, That sounds like an exciting find. I like to see stuff from days gone by. Old oil cands old kitchen products, or anything from when I was growing up. You say they went out of business a few months after you started. I hope you wern't the cause of them to go under :)

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