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Madrid is located 27 miles south of Santa Fe on New Mexico route 14 in Santa
Fe County. The town is not ghostly at all. It has been
reborn as an artist/craft colony with stores, a few restaurants, a couple of
museums, and a number of permanent residents. It looked as though, if one
could get off the main road, one might find a few relics from the past, but it
was not easy to do so. Some of the side roads were marked 'private.'
It seemed that the residents were trying to keep the tourists away from anywhere
but the main street.
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This photo is from page 2 of Varney's book (1981), and it
contains the only thing that was recognizable today (April 13, 2001)
among the photos of Madrid in both books. The recognizable thing
is the Chrysler-Plymouth service sign hanging in the garage. |
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This is apparently the same garage taken from a different
angle on April 13, 2001. The gas pump is still there, and
the wood rail retaining wall is still in place. Now, however, the
sign has been rehung where it probably originally hung. |
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This is another photo taken by me showing what appears to
be an old, small ferris wheel behind the fence. |
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Here is a street scene in Madrid from April 13,
2001. Hardly ghostly. |
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Not your standard ghost town item (but that may one
day depend on the definition of ghost town!), but a pleasant find
nonetheless. This carefully preserved, 1954 Chevy four-door was parked behind one of the buildings in Madrid. |
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