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  • Wheels Museum Visit
    Founded in 1994 by Leba Freed, the Wheels Museum is a treasure trove of Albuquerque’s transportation history. Housed in a historic 1914 Santa Fe Railyard freight building, the museum showcases over 10,000 fascinating artifacts that chronicle the evolution of transportation in the region. Leba Freed, with significant early support from Mayor Joe Craig who worked alongside her for about a decade on planning and funding, established the museum as a prominent local institution.… Read more: Wheels Museum Visit
  • Watch Video of Kromer House Presentation
    Kindly recorded at the home of Eugenia and Charles Eberle on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Professor Stefan Schoberlein, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Central Texas, and Teri Reynoso, Special Collections Librarian at The Public Library of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, will present “Meet the Kromers:  A Case Study of the Albuquerque Boheme, 1930s – 1950s”.   In 1937 Tom Kromer, the author of the depression era novel “Waiting for Nothing,” and his wife Janet Kromer,… Read more: Watch Video of Kromer House Presentation
  • Scanned: 70s Newsletters
    Thanks to Sue Kaplan, we now have copies of four Los Ranches de Albuquerque newsletters from the 1970s. You can read, and even download copies for yourself, here. Anyone with more newsletters, photographs, slides, or other material that might be of interest to others, we would be thrilled to add them to our collection. We can come to your home and scan them so they never have to leave your possession, or you… Read more: Scanned: 70s Newsletters
  • Collecting Route 66 Stories
    According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is compiling “memories, stories and photos in a massive online scrapbook.” Anyone can contribute to this project, slated to complete in 2026. To read the full story in the SF New Mexican, please click here. National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “Your Route 66 Story”
  • Theresa Rael Named President
    At our Los Ranchos Historical Society (LRHS) meeting on February 3 at the Village Hall, those present included Mayor Joe Craig, Theresa Rael, Alan Leary, Gordene MacKenzie, Nancy Nangeroni, Marcia Smiley, Eugenia Eberle, JR (Wilfred) Barela, Susan Kaplan Lentz, Ron Chavez, Paula Doherty and Marsha Adams. We unanimously named Theresa Rael as our president. We also officially declared ourselves a non-profit organization, which allows donors to deduct their donations to LRHS, up to… Read more: Theresa Rael Named President