Earlier this month, it was announced that after years of abandoned neglect, the Bella Vista restaurant in Cedar Crest, NM would soon be torn down. As you can see in the pics, the work has already begun. Bella Vista was my first-ever paying job

"You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." -- Richard Bach, "The Messiah's Handbook" The Wish began far earlier than I realized at the time: age 8, or thereabouts. The sc