

Armes, a private detective who has been active in El Paso since 1958. The first real-life superhero may have been J. But with advances in technology - such as exoskeletons and bionic limbs - you might think it’s only a matter of time until we see the first grinder superhero.Īctually, we’ve had him for quite some time. These caped crusaders aren’t mutants, aliens or cyborgs - they’re just concerned citizens. Phoenix Jones and Master Legend are perhaps the most famous, but there are hundreds of costumed would-be crime fighters and their activities range from attempting to apprehend criminals to watching over the homeless while they sleep to make sure their positions aren’t stolen. María Cortés González may be reached at on Twitter.Every night dozens of people around the world don masks and costumes and venture into the streets to fight crime. Armes' house has sales contract huge El Paso estate sale set again His wife added, "To see someone from El Paso that's awesome and we don't know the history of but kind of like a movie star, it's great."

I was curious to see it," said Darwin Nilsson. "It's definitely exotic and quite a story." "I saw the article about the estate sale and I knew it was going to be a big thing. Westsiders Regina and Darwin Nilsson, who enjoy visiting estate sales, said they were inspired to check out the sale because of its size. There are glimpses of what Armes' interests are, from a complex intercom system on a bedroom wall to taxidermic animals, including an ostrich, as well as numerous life-size images that depict the investigator. "He seems to be stuck in a certain time period, maybe what might have been the prime of his life - the decor and fashion and everything I see in this house kind of reflects that and backs up what I thought," Macias said. Macias said she was not surprised at the decor of the home, which seems reflective of another time period: a mix of Greek decor with busts of gods, white leather furniture and pillars in a living area, to bedrooms with gold draping valances, armoires, mirrored walls, and a modern French tufted headboard. And an old school Victrola that was downstairs, but someone already got it," she said. "I was hoping to get a Betamax player, but somebody already bought it. Macias said she was drawn to the estate sale because she collects VHS tapes and vintage video players and she believed he might have some vintage technology.

Sara Macias, who grew up in the Lower Valley, said she remembered seeing the giraffes in the corner of his estate when she was a young girl.
