Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Joel Sanchez was working on a house in Clovis recently and came across an old purse with a metal coin inside. "It said you can't go wrong eating at Al's Drive In restaurant," Sanchez said. A quick search through the library's city directories and newspaper archives tells us this about Al's: It opened in the late 1940s near Seventh and Thornton streets and was owned by the Sasser family. Its advertising slogan read, "Service in your car as you are." The restaurant sponsored...
On this date … 1951: The city of Portales was working on the “Ouster of outhouses,” according to The Portales Tribune. Jerry Hein, the city’s sanitarian, was making a list of all the outhouses in the city limits in hopes of having them removed. “A person would expect a lot of these instances of unsanitary toilet facilities to be hardship cases, but it just isn’t that way,” Hein said. “Most of the cases will deal with people who own low-rent houses and just don’t want to put the plumbing in.” The city’s plan was to “accept b...
The following is a Q&A with candidates for Position 4 on the Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education. Antonio Sanchez is running for re-election. He is running against Braden Fraze, William Hilliard and Meredith Seifert. Attempts to contact Hilliard were unsuccessful. Candidates were asked the same questions over the phone. The election is Nov. 2. Why did you decide to run? Fraze: I want to be involved in my community and I grew up in a family where both my parents were teachers. I got married and my wife and I intend...
