The Magnificent Orpheum, Act 2
NOTE: This is the second part of a two-part post. I'm opening with a quick recap of Act 1, but if you haven't read it yet you really should because it has fire, roller skates, and Dolly Dimples, the educated horse.
So, just to refresh everyone's memory: the Orpheum Theater was built in 1911 by William Futrelle to replace a furniture store he owned on the same site that burned down. The theater showed a combination of movies and live Vaudeville entertainment, as was popular at the time, but went out of business after less than four years. After that it was turned into a roller rink, and then a dance hall, but that only lasted a few years too.
After the Orpheum dance hall went out of business, the building was empty for a couple of years and then reopened around 1921 as the Viaduct Garage. With its wide open floorplan and oversized doors, it was probably well suited for this purpose. A guy from Chicago named R. L. Harrison started working there as a mechanic,51 but by 1922 he had taken over the business. From this humble beginning he was able to expand his company into one of New Mexico's largest heavy equipment distributors and ended up as a multimillionaire who owned his own plane.52 But it didn't take him long to outgrow the Viaduct Garage; he moved to a new location in 1925.53 After that a few other owners took a stab at running the place, but with much less success than Harrison.
In 1931, a wrestling promoter named Jack Fisher (1887-1972)54 set up shop in Albuquerque and started staging weekly matches—a treat, the Journal wrote, for "sports fans who like to see the boys attempt mayhem on each other in the squared rings".55,56 Fisher was a former wrestler himself, and later recounted to a St. Louis columnist how he used to tour the "sticks" wrestling for cash wagers when he couldn't drum up a paying audience, often under an assumed identity in case the locals had heard of him. According to him, "It was an exciting life but uncertain and difficult, especially for a one-eyed guy" (he was partially blind in one eye, a fact he tried to keep secret from his opponents).57 In Albuquerque, he had been staging his matches in a park during the summer, but with winter coming he needed an indoor venue. He settled on the vacant Viaduct Garage, which was roomy and probably cheap to rent. Fisher named it the Viaduct Arena and held wrestling and boxing events there for the next year and a half,58 along with the city's first jiu-jitsu match.59
These promotions were the city's first real taste of modern professional wrestling.60 Unlike back in Fisher's bushwhacking days, the contests at the Viaduct were probably staged, but that wasn't widely known at the time.61 The Journal certainly reported as if the matches were competitive, though some of the outcomes seem pretty implausible. Either way, audiences loved it. Albuquerque's most popular wrestler at the time was probably Francisco Aguayo (c. 1898-1963),62 who was known for his "charro" persona and crowd-pleasing violent antics. (The Journal wrote that he "loves nothing better than to make up his [own] rules."63) Some of his feats at the Viaduct included wrestling one-handed,64 winning a match while almost unconscious when the other guy knocked himself out (see, totally plausible),65 and even trying his hand at jiu-jitsu (he wasn’t great at it).66 Later in his career, he also wrestled Mike London, who you may remember from my post about the Ice Arena.67
Fisher left town in 1933,68 and his successor was evidently less fond of the Viaduct Arena, because he moved the wrestling events to a new venue a few months later, saying it would be "much nicer from the fans' standpoint".69 After this, the building was used as a trucking company warehouse for a couple of years, and then as far as I can tell not used for much of anything for another decade. But finally it found a new purpose around 1947 when it reopened as the Warehouse Furniture Company. If it seems a little risky to open a furniture store on the site of an earlier furniture store that burned to the ground, perhaps it was, because the store did catch fire just three years later. Both the store and the apartments above were damaged, including one where a couple who had just returned from their wedding were celebrating with friends.70 But Futrelle's insistence on fireproof construction paid off again, and the building survived.
After the fire, the building was completely remodeled—actually, the remodeling had already been in progress—and like a lot of other old buildings lost most of its ornate trim in the process. The store reopened in 1951 with a new owner, Andres M. Vigil (1895-1966),71 and a new name, Superior Furniture. Vigil was the former owner of Superior Lumber,72 the business right behind the Orpheum which as you may recall from Act 1 burned down in 1918, but was later rebuilt. He also owned the Superior Apartments on the second floor of the Orpheum building,70,73 and apparently really liked the word "superior." Another fun fact about Vigil is that we've already met his daughter Ireen. She married Tony Tagliaferro, who owned the Broadway Food Market right at the other end of the viaduct, and their wedding picture was in my previous post.74
It's convenient that I just mentioned the 1918 Superior Lumber fire, because by the 1960s, history was due to repeat itself. After Vigil left Superior Lumber, the company went out of business in 195675 and the property was taken over by Guy Hawkins Wrecking Co. In 1963, that caught fire and burned to the ground again. If you're keeping count, this was the fourth major fire to occur on or directly adjacent to the Orpheum property. But yet again, the sturdy old theater escaped with only minor damage.73 The fire didn't stop Superior Furniture, and neither did Vigil's death in 1966.71 In fact, the store stayed in business for a surprisingly long time—27 years. But time catches up with us all, especially dusty old furniture stores on unfashionable corners. In 1978, Superior Furniture went out of business, leaving the ground floor of the building vacant.76
By this point the building was generally described as a dump.77 A resident from the 1970s recalled that rent amounts varied randomly from one month to the next and there were often homeless people sleeping in the hallways.78 This was the state of the building when Martha Trolin found it in 1980. She was a "movement teacher" (apparently she wasn't fond of the term 'dance'—too elitist) who had recently packed up and left LA in search of someplace with more space. She decided to stay in Albuquerque, and when she came across the old Superior Furniture building, it was exactly what she was looking for. It had plenty of room for all the creative endeavors she could imagine, and it was within her budget, which basically consisted of the $127,000 she got from selling her house in Venice. To her, the building wasn't the same dump that everyone else saw, but a blank canvas. She bought it and got to work.79
Trolin spent the next year and a half renovating the building into a "haven for working artists" with help from some of her friends. She figured other artists were looking for the same thing she was—an affordable place to live and work, where they wouldn't have to worry too much about money. By the time the space formally opened in 1981, she had succeeded in attracting 15 artists of various disciplines who either lived or rented studio space in the building.80 Some were even "real artists", as one tenant put it, like Tina Fuentes, who is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article and at one time was the director of the Texas Tech School of Art.81 She kept her studio in the Orpheum building for over a decade.77
The Journal described the building in 1990 as containing "a gallery, an airy wood-floored performance area, seven working studios, 13 apartments and eight duplex studio spaces" and reported that 50-60 people, artists and non-artists alike, lived there. Rent was cheap so there was usually a waiting list to get in.77 The gallery and performance space were organized by some of the tenants in 1989,82 allowing the facility to host a variety of events. Some of these were about as wacky as you would expect, like a multimedia performance promising to "propel the audience into a primal world of the erotic senses",83 or a workshop offering the chance to "play in a delightful, mystical reality".84 Trolin eventually moved on to other things, becoming a prominent LGBT activist, but she took one thing from the Orpheum with her. Back in 1981, she met her future wife at the building's grand opening. Twenty-two years later, they traveled to British Columbia and became one of the first same-sex couples from New Mexico to get married.85
After Trolin's departure, the Orpheum continued to be used as an arts space. Among the events advertised there in its later years was one with the questionable name "Poofy's Den of Lust (and Stuff)", described as a "variety show featuring hip-hop and modern dance, modern clowning and magic, poetry, film and more."86 In other words, it was pretty much exactly the same type of show that audiences would have seen there 100 years earlier. Sadly, history did not record whether any lemons were thrown this time around. I'd like to imagine they were.
In 2017, the building was bought by a local nonprofit called Homewise that helps lower income people buy homes. In addition to housing their Albuquerque offices, they also wanted the building to continue as a hub for community events and classes. But first they needed to spend two years and about $2 million fixing it up, including building new office and conference space and upgrading the apartments.87 Homewise has raised the profile of the building by restoring its original name (it's now the Orpheum Community Hub) and maintaining a strong social media presence. So far the building has gotten a new mural,88 its own beer (Orpheum Pale Ale, made with hops grown on the property),89 and apparently even a TV appearance, standing in for Turkey on the NBC drama The Brave. (Unconfirmed, I wasn't willing to watch the whole thing to find out.)90 But regardless, the future seems bright.
Sources
51. Hudspeth Directory Company’s Albuquerque City Directory 1921. El Paso: Hudspeth Directory Company, 1921. Via Ancestry Library.
52. "Harrison Estate Valued at $4 Million Plus." Albuquerque Journal, March 23, 1961. Via Newspapers.com.
53. "R. L. Harrison Co., Formerly Viaduct, In New Quarters." Albuquerque Journal, February 15, 1925. Via Newspapers.com.
54."Jack M. Fisher." Findagrave.com.
55. "Double Event Is Arranged for a Ring Show Here." Albuquerque Journal, January 1, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
56. "Eddie Stout Is Matched with Frank Aguayo." Albuquerque Journal, January 4, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
57. "Wrestling Champions Weren't Always Phony." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 9, 1950. Via Newspapers.com.
58. "Dedication of New Wrestling Arena Shortly." Albuquerque Journal, September 29, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
59. "Winner of Waters-Aguayo Match Tonight Will Meet Nichols; Jiu Jitsu Bout." Albuquerque Journal, December 10, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
60. "Ernie Gross and Jack Fisher Both Wrestling in Ohio." Albuquerque Journal, March 9, 1935. Via Newspapers.com.
61. Horton, Aaron D. (ed). Identity in Professional Wrestling: Essays on Nationality, Race and Gender. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2018, pp. 2-3.
62. "Francisco Aguayo, Wrestler, Dies." Nashville Tennessean, September 23, 1963. Via Newspapers.com.
63. "Flaska Suspends Rules for Aguayo." Albuquerque Journal, June 13, 1941. Via Newspapers.com.
64. "Aguayo Bests Rob Roy, with Only One Hand." Albuquerque Journal, December 3, 1932. Via Newspapers.com.
65. "Aguayo Wins Wrestling Bout As Cowboy Waters Knocks Self Out With Dive." Albuquerque Journal, December 4, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
66. "Aguayo Defeats [racial slur] After Jiu Jitsu Gets Him." Albuquerque Journal, December 19, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
67. "Aguayo Vs. London Bout Is Expected to Be a Thriller." Albuquerque Journal, April 30, 1936. Via Newspapers.com.
68. "Jack Fisher Leaves for South; El Paso Mat Promoter Here." Albuquerque Journal, January 9, 1933. Via Newspapers.com.
69. "Wrestling Matches Will Be Held in the Colombo Hall." Albuquerque Journal, March 27, 1933. Via Newspapers.com.
70. "Warehouse Fire Hits Apartments." Albuquerque Journal, June 11, 1950. Via Newspapers.com.
71. "Store Owner Dies at 71." Albuquerque Tribune, October 7, 1966. Via Newspaper Archive.
72. "Announcement" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, May 20, 1951. Via Newspapers.com.
73. "Downtown Fire Loss Put at $150,000; One Building Is Destroyed." Albuquerque Journal, June 3, 1963. Via Newspapers.com.
74. "Ireen Vigil Wed Saturday Morning." Albuquerque Journal, February 24, 1952. Via Newspapers.com.
75. "Going Out of Business Sale" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, May 15, 1956. Via Newspapers.com.
76. "We Quit!" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, January 13, 1978. Via Newspapers.com.
77. "500 2nd Street: A Place For Artists." Albuquerque Journal, August 24, 1990. Via Newspapers.com.
78. "What we could all learn from Mr. Chacon, the dean of the Orpheum Building." Downtown Albuquerque News, January 9, 2020.
79. "All This Building Needs Is a Tender Love Affair." Albuquerque Journal, April 25, 1980. Via Newspapers.com.
80. "Once-Dilapidated Building Alive as a Haven for Working Artists." Albuquerque Journal, December 18, 1981. Via Newspapers.com.
81. Post, Sally Logue. "Abstract Art Meets Atmospheric Science." Texas Tech University Discoveries, Spring 2017. Via Newspapers.com.
82. "Gallery premiere." Albuquerque Journal, December 15, 1989. Via Newspapers.com.
83. "Multimedia performance." Albuquerque Journal, August 17, 1990. Via Newspapers.com.
84. "The Sacred Dance" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, April 23, 1990. Via Newspapers.com.
85. "N.M. Women Marry in Canada." Albuquerque Journal, October 14, 2003. Via Newspapers.com.
86. "'Poofy's Den of Lust (and Stuff)'" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, September 26, 2008. Via Newspapers.com.
87. Hamway, Stephen. "Reinvented: Century-old building debuts as Homewise headquarters." Albuquerque Journal, May 29, 2019. Via Newspapers.com.
88. "Mural gives new life to historic Albuquerque building." KRQE, August 12, 2019. Via Newspapers.com.
89. [We have been brewing with excitement.] Orpheum Community Hub, October 18, 2019. Via Facebook.
90. [Having some fun.] Orpheum Community Hub, March 19, 2019. Via Facebook.
So, just to refresh everyone's memory: the Orpheum Theater was built in 1911 by William Futrelle to replace a furniture store he owned on the same site that burned down. The theater showed a combination of movies and live Vaudeville entertainment, as was popular at the time, but went out of business after less than four years. After that it was turned into a roller rink, and then a dance hall, but that only lasted a few years too.
After the Orpheum dance hall went out of business, the building was empty for a couple of years and then reopened around 1921 as the Viaduct Garage. With its wide open floorplan and oversized doors, it was probably well suited for this purpose. A guy from Chicago named R. L. Harrison started working there as a mechanic,51 but by 1922 he had taken over the business. From this humble beginning he was able to expand his company into one of New Mexico's largest heavy equipment distributors and ended up as a multimillionaire who owned his own plane.52 But it didn't take him long to outgrow the Viaduct Garage; he moved to a new location in 1925.53 After that a few other owners took a stab at running the place, but with much less success than Harrison.
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| Ad for the Viaduct Garage, 1923. Albuquerque Journal via Newspapers.com. |
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| R. L. Harrison around 1930 with his Travel Air biplane. Via New Mexico Digital Collections. |
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| The Viaduct Garage in 1930. Via New Mexico Digital Collections. |
In 1931, a wrestling promoter named Jack Fisher (1887-1972)54 set up shop in Albuquerque and started staging weekly matches—a treat, the Journal wrote, for "sports fans who like to see the boys attempt mayhem on each other in the squared rings".55,56 Fisher was a former wrestler himself, and later recounted to a St. Louis columnist how he used to tour the "sticks" wrestling for cash wagers when he couldn't drum up a paying audience, often under an assumed identity in case the locals had heard of him. According to him, "It was an exciting life but uncertain and difficult, especially for a one-eyed guy" (he was partially blind in one eye, a fact he tried to keep secret from his opponents).57 In Albuquerque, he had been staging his matches in a park during the summer, but with winter coming he needed an indoor venue. He settled on the vacant Viaduct Garage, which was roomy and probably cheap to rent. Fisher named it the Viaduct Arena and held wrestling and boxing events there for the next year and a half,58 along with the city's first jiu-jitsu match.59
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| Jack Fisher in his wrestling days back in 1913. Shreveport Times via Newspapers.com. |
These promotions were the city's first real taste of modern professional wrestling.60 Unlike back in Fisher's bushwhacking days, the contests at the Viaduct were probably staged, but that wasn't widely known at the time.61 The Journal certainly reported as if the matches were competitive, though some of the outcomes seem pretty implausible. Either way, audiences loved it. Albuquerque's most popular wrestler at the time was probably Francisco Aguayo (c. 1898-1963),62 who was known for his "charro" persona and crowd-pleasing violent antics. (The Journal wrote that he "loves nothing better than to make up his [own] rules."63) Some of his feats at the Viaduct included wrestling one-handed,64 winning a match while almost unconscious when the other guy knocked himself out (see, totally plausible),65 and even trying his hand at jiu-jitsu (he wasn’t great at it).66 Later in his career, he also wrestled Mike London, who you may remember from my post about the Ice Arena.67
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| Advertisement for wrestling and boxing at the Viaduct Arena, 1931. Albuquerque Journal via Newspapers.com. |
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| Francisco Aguayo in 1931 in his charro outfit and on the mat. Left: Albuquerque Journal via Newspapers.com; right: El Paso Times via Newspapers.com. |
Fisher left town in 1933,68 and his successor was evidently less fond of the Viaduct Arena, because he moved the wrestling events to a new venue a few months later, saying it would be "much nicer from the fans' standpoint".69 After this, the building was used as a trucking company warehouse for a couple of years, and then as far as I can tell not used for much of anything for another decade. But finally it found a new purpose around 1947 when it reopened as the Warehouse Furniture Company. If it seems a little risky to open a furniture store on the site of an earlier furniture store that burned to the ground, perhaps it was, because the store did catch fire just three years later. Both the store and the apartments above were damaged, including one where a couple who had just returned from their wedding were celebrating with friends.70 But Futrelle's insistence on fireproof construction paid off again, and the building survived.
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| Ad for Warehouse Furniture, 1950, mentioning the planned remodeling. Albuquerque Journal via Newspapers.com. |
After the fire, the building was completely remodeled—actually, the remodeling had already been in progress—and like a lot of other old buildings lost most of its ornate trim in the process. The store reopened in 1951 with a new owner, Andres M. Vigil (1895-1966),71 and a new name, Superior Furniture. Vigil was the former owner of Superior Lumber,72 the business right behind the Orpheum which as you may recall from Act 1 burned down in 1918, but was later rebuilt. He also owned the Superior Apartments on the second floor of the Orpheum building,70,73 and apparently really liked the word "superior." Another fun fact about Vigil is that we've already met his daughter Ireen. She married Tony Tagliaferro, who owned the Broadway Food Market right at the other end of the viaduct, and their wedding picture was in my previous post.74
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| Ad for Superior Furniture, 1952, featuring some strangely tiny children. Albuquerque Journal via Newspapers.com. |
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| Looking west from the Coal viaduct in 1969; Superior Furniture is visible at the far left. Via Albuquerque Museum. |
It's convenient that I just mentioned the 1918 Superior Lumber fire, because by the 1960s, history was due to repeat itself. After Vigil left Superior Lumber, the company went out of business in 195675 and the property was taken over by Guy Hawkins Wrecking Co. In 1963, that caught fire and burned to the ground again. If you're keeping count, this was the fourth major fire to occur on or directly adjacent to the Orpheum property. But yet again, the sturdy old theater escaped with only minor damage.73 The fire didn't stop Superior Furniture, and neither did Vigil's death in 1966.71 In fact, the store stayed in business for a surprisingly long time—27 years. But time catches up with us all, especially dusty old furniture stores on unfashionable corners. In 1978, Superior Furniture went out of business, leaving the ground floor of the building vacant.76
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| Announcement of the store closing, 1978. (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48849018/albuquerque-journal/) |
By this point the building was generally described as a dump.77 A resident from the 1970s recalled that rent amounts varied randomly from one month to the next and there were often homeless people sleeping in the hallways.78 This was the state of the building when Martha Trolin found it in 1980. She was a "movement teacher" (apparently she wasn't fond of the term 'dance'—too elitist) who had recently packed up and left LA in search of someplace with more space. She decided to stay in Albuquerque, and when she came across the old Superior Furniture building, it was exactly what she was looking for. It had plenty of room for all the creative endeavors she could imagine, and it was within her budget, which basically consisted of the $127,000 she got from selling her house in Venice. To her, the building wasn't the same dump that everyone else saw, but a blank canvas. She bought it and got to work.79
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| Martha Trolin and one of her friends working on the building, 1980. Albuquerque Journal via Newspapers.com. |
Trolin spent the next year and a half renovating the building into a "haven for working artists" with help from some of her friends. She figured other artists were looking for the same thing she was—an affordable place to live and work, where they wouldn't have to worry too much about money. By the time the space formally opened in 1981, she had succeeded in attracting 15 artists of various disciplines who either lived or rented studio space in the building.80 Some were even "real artists", as one tenant put it, like Tina Fuentes, who is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article and at one time was the director of the Texas Tech School of Art.81 She kept her studio in the Orpheum building for over a decade.77
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| Tina Fuentes in her studio, 1990. Albuquerque Journal via Newspapers.com. |
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| The building in 1990. Albuquerque Journal via Newspapers.com. |
The Journal described the building in 1990 as containing "a gallery, an airy wood-floored performance area, seven working studios, 13 apartments and eight duplex studio spaces" and reported that 50-60 people, artists and non-artists alike, lived there. Rent was cheap so there was usually a waiting list to get in.77 The gallery and performance space were organized by some of the tenants in 1989,82 allowing the facility to host a variety of events. Some of these were about as wacky as you would expect, like a multimedia performance promising to "propel the audience into a primal world of the erotic senses",83 or a workshop offering the chance to "play in a delightful, mystical reality".84 Trolin eventually moved on to other things, becoming a prominent LGBT activist, but she took one thing from the Orpheum with her. Back in 1981, she met her future wife at the building's grand opening. Twenty-two years later, they traveled to British Columbia and became one of the first same-sex couples from New Mexico to get married.85
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| Inside the Orpheum gallery, 2018. Orpheum Community Hub via Facebook. |
After Trolin's departure, the Orpheum continued to be used as an arts space. Among the events advertised there in its later years was one with the questionable name "Poofy's Den of Lust (and Stuff)", described as a "variety show featuring hip-hop and modern dance, modern clowning and magic, poetry, film and more."86 In other words, it was pretty much exactly the same type of show that audiences would have seen there 100 years earlier. Sadly, history did not record whether any lemons were thrown this time around. I'd like to imagine they were.
In 2017, the building was bought by a local nonprofit called Homewise that helps lower income people buy homes. In addition to housing their Albuquerque offices, they also wanted the building to continue as a hub for community events and classes. But first they needed to spend two years and about $2 million fixing it up, including building new office and conference space and upgrading the apartments.87 Homewise has raised the profile of the building by restoring its original name (it's now the Orpheum Community Hub) and maintaining a strong social media presence. So far the building has gotten a new mural,88 its own beer (Orpheum Pale Ale, made with hops grown on the property),89 and apparently even a TV appearance, standing in for Turkey on the NBC drama The Brave. (Unconfirmed, I wasn't willing to watch the whole thing to find out.)90 But regardless, the future seems bright.
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| Photo from the Homewise renovation, 2019. Orpheum Community Hub via Facebook. |
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| The building in 2019 with its new mural partly completed. Denise Weaver Ross Murals via Facebook. |
Sources
51. Hudspeth Directory Company’s Albuquerque City Directory 1921. El Paso: Hudspeth Directory Company, 1921. Via Ancestry Library.
52. "Harrison Estate Valued at $4 Million Plus." Albuquerque Journal, March 23, 1961. Via Newspapers.com.
53. "R. L. Harrison Co., Formerly Viaduct, In New Quarters." Albuquerque Journal, February 15, 1925. Via Newspapers.com.
54."Jack M. Fisher." Findagrave.com.
55. "Double Event Is Arranged for a Ring Show Here." Albuquerque Journal, January 1, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
56. "Eddie Stout Is Matched with Frank Aguayo." Albuquerque Journal, January 4, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
57. "Wrestling Champions Weren't Always Phony." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 9, 1950. Via Newspapers.com.
58. "Dedication of New Wrestling Arena Shortly." Albuquerque Journal, September 29, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
59. "Winner of Waters-Aguayo Match Tonight Will Meet Nichols; Jiu Jitsu Bout." Albuquerque Journal, December 10, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
60. "Ernie Gross and Jack Fisher Both Wrestling in Ohio." Albuquerque Journal, March 9, 1935. Via Newspapers.com.
61. Horton, Aaron D. (ed). Identity in Professional Wrestling: Essays on Nationality, Race and Gender. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2018, pp. 2-3.
62. "Francisco Aguayo, Wrestler, Dies." Nashville Tennessean, September 23, 1963. Via Newspapers.com.
63. "Flaska Suspends Rules for Aguayo." Albuquerque Journal, June 13, 1941. Via Newspapers.com.
64. "Aguayo Bests Rob Roy, with Only One Hand." Albuquerque Journal, December 3, 1932. Via Newspapers.com.
65. "Aguayo Wins Wrestling Bout As Cowboy Waters Knocks Self Out With Dive." Albuquerque Journal, December 4, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
66. "Aguayo Defeats [racial slur] After Jiu Jitsu Gets Him." Albuquerque Journal, December 19, 1931. Via Newspapers.com.
67. "Aguayo Vs. London Bout Is Expected to Be a Thriller." Albuquerque Journal, April 30, 1936. Via Newspapers.com.
68. "Jack Fisher Leaves for South; El Paso Mat Promoter Here." Albuquerque Journal, January 9, 1933. Via Newspapers.com.
69. "Wrestling Matches Will Be Held in the Colombo Hall." Albuquerque Journal, March 27, 1933. Via Newspapers.com.
70. "Warehouse Fire Hits Apartments." Albuquerque Journal, June 11, 1950. Via Newspapers.com.
71. "Store Owner Dies at 71." Albuquerque Tribune, October 7, 1966. Via Newspaper Archive.
72. "Announcement" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, May 20, 1951. Via Newspapers.com.
73. "Downtown Fire Loss Put at $150,000; One Building Is Destroyed." Albuquerque Journal, June 3, 1963. Via Newspapers.com.
74. "Ireen Vigil Wed Saturday Morning." Albuquerque Journal, February 24, 1952. Via Newspapers.com.
75. "Going Out of Business Sale" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, May 15, 1956. Via Newspapers.com.
76. "We Quit!" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, January 13, 1978. Via Newspapers.com.
77. "500 2nd Street: A Place For Artists." Albuquerque Journal, August 24, 1990. Via Newspapers.com.
78. "What we could all learn from Mr. Chacon, the dean of the Orpheum Building." Downtown Albuquerque News, January 9, 2020.
79. "All This Building Needs Is a Tender Love Affair." Albuquerque Journal, April 25, 1980. Via Newspapers.com.
80. "Once-Dilapidated Building Alive as a Haven for Working Artists." Albuquerque Journal, December 18, 1981. Via Newspapers.com.
81. Post, Sally Logue. "Abstract Art Meets Atmospheric Science." Texas Tech University Discoveries, Spring 2017. Via Newspapers.com.
82. "Gallery premiere." Albuquerque Journal, December 15, 1989. Via Newspapers.com.
83. "Multimedia performance." Albuquerque Journal, August 17, 1990. Via Newspapers.com.
84. "The Sacred Dance" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, April 23, 1990. Via Newspapers.com.
85. "N.M. Women Marry in Canada." Albuquerque Journal, October 14, 2003. Via Newspapers.com.
86. "'Poofy's Den of Lust (and Stuff)'" (advertisement). Albuquerque Journal, September 26, 2008. Via Newspapers.com.
87. Hamway, Stephen. "Reinvented: Century-old building debuts as Homewise headquarters." Albuquerque Journal, May 29, 2019. Via Newspapers.com.
88. "Mural gives new life to historic Albuquerque building." KRQE, August 12, 2019. Via Newspapers.com.
89. [We have been brewing with excitement.] Orpheum Community Hub, October 18, 2019. Via Facebook.
90. [Having some fun.] Orpheum Community Hub, March 19, 2019. Via Facebook.
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