New Mexico’s second largest city gets its first escalator
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Beware, according to legend they eat children, toes and anyone silly enough to wear loose, flapping clothes - and now they live among us!
Of course, some kids see them as a fun diversion while their mother shops, and others don’t even give them a second thought. But whatever your take, Las Cruces has finally gotten over the technological hump known as the escalator.
When the new Barnes & Noble bookstore opened at New Mexico State University earlier this month, it brought with it just such a floor-to-floor conveyance.
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All the life-long residents I’ve spoken to say that there has never been an escalator in this town before.
“Not at all,” said life-long Cruces resident Joel Courtney when asked if there had ever been such a beast in our city. But then he added, “The Popular (building, located Downtown) might have had one way back in the day. Let me call my mom, she’ll know.”
Courtney is the communication and leadership director with the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce always does a great job of getting the media information. He called back minutes later.
“Nope. She says there were stairs but not an escalator,” Courtney reported.
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Kegan Garrett, 24, left, and his 15-year-old brother, Morgan Garrett, ride the escalator Wednesday to the second floor at the Barnes & Noble bookstore at New Mexico State University. (Norm Dettlaff/Sun-News)
New Mexico has been a state for ninety-nine and a half years.