(Eastern New Mexico News) Tower Theater owners Alvie and Frances Smith were house shopping outside Portales when Alvie first noticed the smoke bellowing from the downtown area.
"He said he had a real funny feeling," Daughter Kay Manis remembers.
"He said, 'Maybe I better go downtown and make sure the theater's OK.'"
The theater was not OK.
Downtown Portales was not OK.
Forty years ago this week, on March 10, 1978, Portales burned. Continued
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