Beau of the Fifth Column: Let's talk about the other Las Vegas....

[TexasTowelie]

[soldierant]

1. I've been through it - it's a pleasant, quiet little town,

which appears to be in the middle of nowhere, but is actually not that far from Santa Fe, at least by standards of "near" and "far" in the west. (I've noticed that people ion the East Coast have far smaller standards of what constitutes "near.&quot This is very sad.

[hatrack]

2. It's an interesting place - kind of a dividing line . . . .

It's a quintessential Anglo western farm/ranch town, with a lot of cool 19th century ironfront buildings in the old downtown - something like 1,000 +/- historic buildings.

Go just a few miles west, and things get very Native/Hispano, with adobe and stucco replacing wood frame buildings in lots of the towns and villages (Hispano - descendants of people who were living there under Spanish rule for centuries before the US existed).

It's also (movie trivia) where they filmed parts of "No Country For Old Men" - the hotel lobby sequence is an actual old-style hotel in the down town.

[soldierant]

4. That is a very New Mexico look, ans Santa Fe's building code

now reflects that - requires new construction conform to that look.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Visited Las Vegas by train last year

It is an interesting town - a bit of a step back in time.

[soldierant]

5. Oh, yes, I'd forgotten about AmTrak.

That must have been wonderful. I'm old enough to remember train travel as a little girl - train travel to actually get somewhere as opposed to riding a narow gauge jfor a short round trip just for fun.