Downtown & the KiMo
Downtown grew from the railroad’s New Town of 1880. Its landmark is the KiMo Theatre, a 1927 Pueblo Deco picture palace on Central Avenue, and a transportation center now stands where the Alvarado Hotel once did.
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The KiMo opened on September 19, 1927. A newspaper contest chose its name, meaning mountain lion, from a suggestion by Pablo Abeita, a former governor of Isleta Pueblo, and its design mixes Pueblo Revival forms, Native motifs and Art Deco lines. (Wikipedia)
After a fire and years of decline, the building passed to the City of Albuquerque and was restored; it now seats 650. (Wikipedia)
The Santa Fe Railway reached Albuquerque in 1880 and built its depot about two miles east of the old plaza, which created New Town, now Downtown. The Alvarado Hotel opened beside the depot in 1902 and was razed in 1970; in 2002 the Alvarado Transportation Center, a hub for buses, Amtrak and the Rail Runner, was built in a style that echoes it. (Wikipedia)
Albuquerque magic: Balloons, mountains and a Spanish plaza on the Rio Grande
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