Who says there’s not “Breaking News” when looking back at history?

This just in…from 1972:

Albuquerque High School came damn close to getting built west of the Rio Grande, “on a westside bluff which overlooks the river, the city, and the Sandia Mountains,” as depicted in this ever so gloriously hand-drawn map from the front-page of the February 18, 1972 Albuquerque Journal.

Here’s a modern birds-eye at what reporter Frankie McCarty in the 1972 story excerpt above termed the “virtually assured new location.”

Of course, the “new” AHS wasn’t built at site “11,” and your humble blogger is giddy with excitement as he stops writing this silly blogpost “breaking news” to research dive further tonight on just how “11” lost and one of those hand-drawn dots-in-circles “won.”

It’s like a movie. If you’re like me and now know nothing about this story, how do you think it played out? Why is AHS today along I-25 instead? Who are the good folks and bad folks and do the criminals get away with it?

I dunno. I’m gonna grab some popcorn now and watch the rest of the movie.