Santa Fe Historic District - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico (founded in 1610) is the oldest capital city in the United States. The Santa Fe Historic District is so rich in culture and history that in 1973 it was named to the National Register of Historic Places, a rare achievement for an entire district.
Places that make up the Santa Fe Historic District include:
La Castrene Site
Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Donaciano Vigil House
Acequia Madre (Mother Ditch)
Camino Royal
Cristo Rey Church and Reredos
Juan Jose Prada House
El Zaguan
Borrego House
St. Francis Cathedral
La Conquistadora Chapel
Juan Rodriguez House
Barrio de Analco
Chapel of San Miguel
Roque Tudesqui House
Gregorio Crespin House
Boyle House
United States Courthouse
Fort Marcy Ruins
Pinckney R. Tully House
Rosario Chapel and Cemetery
Stone Warehouse
Loretto Chapel
St. Michael's Dormitory
Palace of the Governors
Sena Plaza
Prince Plaza
Spiegelberg-Spitz House
Francisco Hinijos House
Felipe B. Delgado House
Hesch House
Nicolas Ortiz House
Plaza
Santa Fe Trail and Canyon Road
Padre Gallegos House
Roque Lobato House
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Day trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a Epic Fail in the Mountains
I go on a day trip to explore Santa Fe, New Mexico by foot. We visit the historic plaza, the Loretto Chapel and it's miraculous staircase, the St. Francis Cathedral, Artsy Canyon Road, and the oldest house in the United States. Then I get lost in the mountains looking for the Tent Rocks, and the road was closed.
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Antiquated Otis Elevator at Sena Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico
I was wandering through this building debating if there would be an elevator or not, and I walked past a restaurant and saw a blue door with elevator in big white letters. As you can tell by the way I acted in the video, I was very excited to find something like this.
As far as I can tell, this has all of the original equipment from when it was installed, which is an unknown date, but is old enough to be considered a museum piece. The issue with these elevators is the door and gate. Someone in a wheelchair must hold the door open and struggle to open the gate, which is very hard to open. For this reason, the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) has caused many elevators like this one to be modernized or replaced. If the gate and door were automatic, this wouldn't be too much of an issue, but building owners would more likely replace the so called creaky deathtrap with a new elevator that wouldn't last near as long. This elevator only goes to an office floor, so there isn't an issue with getting disabled people up and down to a restaurant or shop. Someone disabled could have an office, but they may have an assistant operate the door and gate for them. Obviously, this not too much of an issue, or this elevator would have been replaced long ago. Not many people use this elevator, simply because it is quicker and easier to take the stairs.
== Location ==
Name of Building: Sena Plaza
Building Address: 125 E. Palace Ave.
City, State: Santa Fe, NM
Location In Building: There is a restaurant in this building, and the elevator is near the back of this restaurant.
Access: Easy
Obstacles: None, this is a public elevator.
== Technical Specs ==
Brand: Otis
Equipment Type: Passenger Elevator
Door Type: Manual Gate and Hinged Door
Car Openings: 1
Controls: Automatic Push Button
Drive System: Traction
Floors Served: 2
Fixtures: Not Otis, possibly CJ Anderson
Capacity: 1,000 lb
Speed: Unknown
Installed: Possibly 1920s - 1930s
Modernized: No
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AWESOME 1920s Manual Crank Otis Elevator at the Lawrence Hotel in Dallas Texas
This is a beautiful piece of American engineering, too bad it is being ripped out in a few months. I need to find a way to get some parts. Listen to the maids yelling and knocking on the elevator door on the way down from floor 10.
== Location ==
Building Address: 302 S. Houston St
City, State: Dallas, Texas
Location In Building: To the left of the passenger elevator.
Access: Easy
Obstacles: None, the employees are very friendly and will most likely let you film.
== Technical Specs ==
Brand: Otis
Equipment Type: Passenger/Service Elevator
Door Type: Standard 2 Speed Outer Door and Inner Gate
Car Openings: 1
Controls: Otis Manual Self Leveling Crank
Drive System: Traction
Floors Served: 11
Fixtures: Otis Crank
Capacity: 1,000 Lbs
Speed: 200 FPM
Installed: 1925
Modernized: No, but soon to be.
AWESOME 1950 Otis Traction Elevator at the Storey Hall Building on the SMU Campus in Dallas Texas
This was installed in 1950 and is still running great. It does, however, seem like it is OLDER than 1950, but the elevator records state that it was installed in 1950.
In the middle of the video, I picked up another passenger. When I told him what I was up to, he actually tried to HELP ME find the date of when this was installed!!! He was very nice and didn't kick me out or call security. The NEXT passenger, however, was from a package delivery service. When I got out to film the outside indicator, I randomly told him that I was an elevator photographer. He just stood there for a second trying to figure out what I was talking about, then just said, Huh?? I told him that I was filming it because it was a beautiful Otis from 1950. He just said, Uh, OK? then got in and went to 3. When I was getting in the elevator on B, he came down the stairs and gave me a strange look. I guess he was intending to take the elevator back to B.
Another funny thing about the entire campus is that it is usually hard to find the elevator. Apparently everyone uses the stairs, because it can take a while to actually find where the elevator is located. I have searched entire buildings at that campus and STILL can't seem to find the elevators!! I eventually have to ask someone at the building where the elevator is, and they usually give me a strange look.
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Montgomery G&P Hydraulic Elevator @ Lomas Santa Fe Plaza, Solana Beach, CA
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Crazy Dover Traction Elevator at Inn & Spa at Loretto, Santa Fe, NM
On our trip down to basement, the elevator dropped really hard and I got scared for a minute. On the way up, there were no problems. There is another elevator here, but it is not public. I'll try to stay at this hotel sometime, so I can film that elevator.
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Mariachi Cardenal and Mariachi Cardenal Juvenil, made up of students from Robertson High School and Memorial Middle School in Las Vegas, NM, perform La Mucura and Maria Isabel ahead of the 2013 Fiestas de Santa Fe, Aug. 31-Sept. 8, 2013 at the Hutton Broadcasting studios. The troupe is conducted by Martin Sena.
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The Vietnam War: Reasons for Failure - Why the U.S. Lost
In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention. About the book:
As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted, First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought that we were going into another Korean War, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies... And we knew less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this kind of dirty business. It's very dangerous.
Some have suggested that the responsibility for the ultimate failure of this policy [America's withdrawal from Vietnam] lies not with the men who fought, but with those in Congress... Alternatively, the official history of the United States Army noted that tactics have often seemed to exist apart from larger issues, strategies, and objectives. Yet in Vietnam the Army experienced tactical success and strategic failure... The...Vietnam War...legacy may be the lesson that unique historical, political, cultural, and social factors always impinge on the military...Success rests not only on military progress but on correctly analyzing the nature of the particular conflict, understanding the enemy's strategy, and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of allies. A new humility and a new sophistication may form the best parts of a complex heritage left to the Army by the long, bitter war in Vietnam.
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in a secret memo to President Gerald Ford that in terms of military tactics, we cannot help draw the conclusion that our armed forces are not suited to this kind of war. Even the Special Forces who had been designed for it could not prevail. Even Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara concluded that the achievement of a military victory by U.S. forces in Vietnam was indeed a dangerous illusion.
Doubts surfaced as to the effectiveness of large-scale, sustained bombing. As Army Chief of Staff Harold Keith Johnson noted, if anything came out of Vietnam, it was that air power couldn't do the job. Even General William Westmoreland admitted that the bombing had been ineffective. As he remarked, I still doubt that the North Vietnamese would have relented.
The inability to bomb Hanoi to the bargaining table also illustrated another U.S. miscalculation. The North's leadership was composed of hardened communists who had been fighting for independence for thirty years. They had defeated the French, and their tenacity as both nationalists and communists was formidable. Ho Chi Minh is quoted as saying, You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours...But even at these odds you will lose and I will win.
The Vietnam War called into question the U.S. Army doctrine. Marine Corps General Victor H. Krulak heavily criticised Westmoreland's attrition strategy, calling it wasteful of American lives... with small likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, doubts surfaced about the ability of the military to train foreign forces.
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam. James E. Westheider wrote that At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, there were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops. Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the President since World War II, but ended in 1973.
By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled. According to Dale Kueter, Sixty-one percent of those killed were age 21 or younger. Of those killed in combat, 86.3 percent were white, 12.5 percent were black and the remainder from other races. The youngest American KIA in the war was PFC Dan Bullock, who had falsified his birth certificate and enlisted in the US Marines at age 14 and who was killed in combat at age 15. Approximately 830,000 Vietnam veterans suffered symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, and approximately 50,000 American servicemen deserted. In 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter granted a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers. The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion.
JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories: John F. Kennedy Facts, Photos, Timeline, Books, Articles
There has long been suspicion of a government cover-up of information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. About the book:
Numerous conspiracy theories regarding the assassination arose soon after Kennedy's death and continue to this day. Most put forth a criminal conspiracy involving parties as varied as the CIA, the KGB, the American Mafia, the Israeli government, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, sitting Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Cuban president Fidel Castro, anti-Castro Cuban exile groups, the Federal Reserve, or some combination of those entities. In 1979, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Kennedy's assassination was likely the result of a conspiracy.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he traveled in an open-top car in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 PM,CST (1:30 PM EST) November 22, 1963; Texas Governor John Connally was also injured. Within two hours, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit and arraigned that evening. At 1:35 AM Saturday, Oswald was arraigned for murdering the President. At 11:21 AM, Sunday, November 24, 1963, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald as he was being transferred to the county jail.
Immediately after the shooting, little information was available and many people suspected that the assassination was part of a larger plot. Ruby's shooting of Oswald compounded initial suspicions. Mark Lane has been described as writing the first literary shot among conspiracy theorists with his article in the December 19, 1963 edition of the National Guardian, Defense Brief for Oswald. Published in May 1964, Thomas Buchanan's Who Killed Kennedy? has been credited as the first book alleging a conspiracy.
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone and that no credible evidence supported the contention that he was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate the president. The Commission also indicated that Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State; Robert S. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense; C. Douglas Dillon, the Secretary of the Treasury; Robert F. Kennedy, the Attorney General; J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI; John A. McCone, the Director of the CIA; and James J. Rowley, the Chief of the Secret Service, each independently reached the same conclusion on the basis of information available to them.
In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, but concluded that the Commission's report and the original FBI investigation were both seriously flawed. The HSCA also concluded that at least four shots were fired with a high probability that two gunmen fired at the President, and that a conspiracy was probable. The HSCA also stated that the Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the president.
The Ramsey Clark Panel and the Rockefeller Commission both supported the Warren Commission's conclusions, while New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison unsuccessfully prosecuted Clay Shaw for conspiring to assassinate Kennedy.
According to John McAdams: The greatest and grandest of all conspiracy theories is the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. Others have frequently referred to it as the mother of all conspiracies. The number of books written about the assassination of Kennedy has been estimated to be in the range of one thousand to two thousand. According to Vincent Bugliosi, 95% of those books are pro-conspiracy and anti-Warren Commission.
Kennedy assassination enthusiasts have been described as belonging to conspiracy theorists on one side and debunkers on the other. The great amount of controversy surrounding the event has led to bitter disputes between those who support the conclusion of the Warren Commission and those who reject it or are critical of the official explanation, with each side leveling accusations of naivete, cynicism, and selective interpretation of the evidence toward the other.
Public opinion polls taken after the assassination have indicated that a large number of Americans believe there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. These same polls also show that there is no agreement on who else may have been involved. A 2003 Gallup poll reported that 75% of Americans do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. That same year an ABC News poll found that 70% of respondents suspected that the assassination involved more than one person. A 2004 Fox News poll found that 66% of Americans thought there had been a conspiracy while 74% thought there had been a cover-up.