Modern General – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
“I went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.” ~Steven Wright While nay-sayers may regard New Mexico as an anachronism–stuck in a time warp somewhere between Victorian times and the Happy Days of the Fonz and Richie Cunningham–there are artifacts of the “good old days” for which I wax nostalgic. Among those artifacts is a real general store, a concept largely relegated to history in this age of instant gratification through internet shopping. In small villages, general stores were not only stocked with such necessities as groceries, dry goods and hardware, they were quite literally the social center of the community. Some of my happiest memories as a gangling teen in Peñasco emanate from my…