Red Ball Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
From Red Ball Cafe’s Facebook Page (28 December 2021): It is with extreme sadness and difficulty to announce the Red Ball Cafe has officially closed its doors for good😢. With the building being as old as it is (impossible maintenance upkeep), plus trying to survive the pandemic has caused us to make the decision to close. 1922 was a year of firsts for Albuquerque an;d New Mexico. At 15,462 citizens, Albuquerque’s population constituted for the first time ever, more than half the population of Bernalillo county. The state’s first skyscraper, the nine-story First National Bank on Central Avenue was built. Taking to the air waves for the very first time was New Mexico’s very first radio station, KOB which then…