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you must not have been in the UNM Student "Ghetto" recently, i had the infamous "Graffitti House", which was tore down at my request..now in 2012 the UNM Student Ghetto Flowers Beautifully as it always has w/DIVERSITY..i miss the Graffitti House and all THE GREAT ARTISTS that came and painted my house so Beautifully!!
There was another house at the corner of Cornell and Silver that was covered with punk rock graffiti in the 80's until it was eventually painted over in 1990 or '91 if I remember correctly. I went to a quite a few parties and shows there. It was called "The Nursery"
The nursery is still there (don't know if it is still called that, though) and it is still kind of a 'punk rock house'. It is not covered with graffiti anymore but part of its fence is made of old skateboard decks.
The nursery is still there (don't know if it is still called that, though) and it is still kind of a 'punk rock house'. It is not covered with graffiti anymore but part of its fence is made of old skateboard decks.
Im still pretty involved in the local punk scene and in the three and a half years I've been back in Albuquerque, there hasn't been any punk rock activity there that Im aware of, As far as I know, since the early 90's. It's just another house in the "student ghetto" as far as I know.
I did frequent there as a teen and knew the mother, Janna and her sons Chris and Gene. She was a real bad junkie. I started going there as a teen to score weed from the sons who were barely around 8 and 9 at the time. Even back then, it shocked me that the boys were as young as they were and selling weed, but that's where my friends and I went. Few years later when I was pregnant, my boyfriend at the time and I stayed there for a couple of weeks with Janna and a few other people when we had nowhere else to go. The inside of te place was pretty horrific as far as no electricity, proper running water, lots of ppl would use the bathtub as a toilet, the bugs were the biggest I had ever seen inside of any house prior to that.
After moving out, we still went there to hang out in the equally graffitied shed to smoke weed. There was an instance where the house was being surveilled and a group of us were in the shed smoking weed, oblivious to the surveillance. Next thing we knew, guns were being shoved into the shed doors and we were being ordered to drop our needles and come out. It was FN crazy. We were let go, minus our weed and paraphernalia, but we never went back to Stanford house again after that. I did run into the one son Gene again about 4 years after that incident at the Subway near there on Central, but he was REAL bad looking from drugs.
I was at the Smith's in the "ghetto" yesterday. Smaller store but very nice, nicer than I thought it would be. If I were alone I'd live in the area.
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