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Baca Car Dealership in Mountainair
Baca Chevrolet
was once located in Mountainair on the corner of Broadway and Highway 55 where Ruben Baca was in charge of a flourishing business selling cars from one end of the state to the other.

Baca purchased the business from Alfonzo Griffin in the fall of 1968. Alfonzo had acquired the business from his brother, Howard. Howard built a garage on West Main Street across from the present-day My Bank building.  In 1917, he sold new Model T Fords for $390.00.   Later, he would purchase the building where Ruben Baca was last located and had the first Chevrolet business in town.  Ruben Baca had been in business in Belen with his father and brother, Leroy since 1955.

On Demand Performance - KXNM archives Archaeology In Your Backyard as MP3 files, allowing you to listen to your favorite shows on demand, whenever you choose.  Click on the audio file below to hear the story about the Car Dealership, or click on the Download File to read the whole story.

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  • HOME
  • PROGRAMS
    • SCHEDULE >
      • Program Schedule
    • PROGRAM DIRECTORY
    • COMMUNITY SERVICES >
      • School Lunches
      • Senior Lunches
      • Torrance County Commissioner’s Meetings
      • Torrance County Planning & Zoning Meetings
    • FARM & RANCH >
      • Belen Livestock Auction Report
      • Clovis Livestock Auction Report
      • Commodities Report
      • Roswell Livestock Market Report
    • LOCAL INTEREST >
      • Archaeology in Your Backyard >
        • Conflicts and Military Actions >
          • Coronado's Entrada
          • Pueblo Revolt
          • Tiguex War
          • Tumultous 1600's
          • 12-Years of Revolt
        • Ghost Stories and Mysteries >
          • Deadman's Curve
          • Ghost Towns
        • Influential Men >
          • Sherrif Elfego Baca
          • David Meriwether
          • Ernie Pyle
          • Delbert Redfern
          • Clem (Pop) Shaffer
          • Montague Stevens and Grizzly Bears
          • Delmar Thomas
        • Influential Women >
          • Eve Ball
          • Carol Bishop
          • Ella Foley Clayton
          • Mabel Sibley Jones
          • Carmen Padilla
          • Emily Post's Roadtrip Through New Mexico
        • INDIGINEOUS PEOPLE >
          • Alamo Navajo Tribe
          • Chief Manuelito of the Mescalero Apache
          • Plight of the Chiricahua Apache
          • Gran Quivira Mythical City of Gold
          • Gran Quivira's Preservation
        • interesting Places >
          • Antelope Springs
          • Baca Car Dealership
          • Belen Cutoff
          • El Bosque Homestead
          • Cedarvale School
          • Cedro Peak Fire Lookout
          • Estancia Salt Lakes
          • Hanging Trees
          • Manzano National Forest
        • Paleoamerican Era >
          • Clovis and Theories
          • Mammoth Steppe Hypothesis
          • Solutrean Hypothesis
        • Significant Events >
          • Community Buffalo Hunts
          • Last Hanging in New Mexico
        • Torrance County Pioneers >
          • Baca and Barela Families
          • Early Villages Along The Monzanos
          • Tabet Family
          • Torrance County Early Days
        • Towns, Settlements and Villages >
          • Encino
          • Estancia
          • Gran Quivira
          • Madrid
          • Magdalena
          • Punta de Aqua
          • Socorro
          • Stanley
          • Stanley
        • Wild West >
          • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
          • Cowgirls and Wildwest Stars
          • Dime Novels and Pulp Westerns
      • StarDate
    • Feature Story News
    • Born To Win
    • Remnant Ministries
    • Uncommon Moment
  • Sounds of Central New Mexico
    • Reverend E and the Vagrants
    • Swing Shift
    • Rye Creek
    • Odd Dog
    • Gilbert Ortiz
    • The Keys Band
    • Stanlie Kee and Step In
    • John DeYoung
    • JJ and the Mystics
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