Going Inside the Archives to Visit the Pajarito Club
“If Ashley hadn’t created the Pajarito Club, he would never have met Harold Brook and started the Los Alamos Ranch School. Without that school on the mesa, the Manhattan Project would most likely not have been located here, and all of us would be living somewhere else today!” Pajarito Club around 1915 or 1916. Peggy […]
Bathtub Row in Three Eras of History
By SHARON SNYDERLos Alamos Historical Society The road that is Bathtub Row today passed by masters’ quarters and classrooms during the Los Alamos Ranch School years. During the Manhattan Project, it was the road to the houses assigned to key staff members at Project Y, and now it leads to lovely homes, the History Museum, […]
Master Cottage #1 and the History It Has Seen
Master Cottage #1 shown in 2018, now known as the Hans Bethe House and Harold Agnew Cold War Gallery. Photo by Todd Nickols By SHARON SNYDER The Los Alamos Ranch School (LARS) was in its seventh year when Director A.J. Connell had a small wooden building constructed to the west of the Big House to use […]
Duchess Castle
In January on Facebook we’re going #InsideTheArchives to enjoy one of the treasures of Los Alamos history through the years. Following the Tsankawi Trail, you have a great overlook of what is now known as Duchess Castle. While this weathered structure is on National Park Service’s Bandelier National Monument land its history impacts the Pajarito […]
Edith Warner’s Christmas Letter, 1943
By SHARON SNYDERIn this very different Christmas season, I find comfort in the words of Edith Warner, the woman who lived at Otowi Bridge. Life hands us challenges in many different ways. The challenges we are facing now are different from the ones she faced during World War II, but the way she faced them […]
The Oppenheimer House Through Time
This month on Facebook we’re going #InsideTheArchives to explore the Oppenheimer House at 1967 Peach St. Affectionately called the Oppenheimer House, the log and stone structure was built in 1929 for the Los Alamos Ranch School. Laura Gilpin photographed these Los Alamos Ranch School students in front of the Oppenheimer House around 1935. This is probably […]
An Ancestral Pueblo Site in the Middle of Town
This photo accompanied the 1959 article in the LASL Community News and shows the fenced area. The boys and their dog are Dick Lilienthal, 12; Dick Baker, 10; Chip Lilienthal, 10; and Shag, Courtesy/LASL Community News By SHARON SNYDER I’ve walked past the Ancestral Puebloan site in our historic district often since I moved back […]
Thanksgiving at the Ranch School
By SHARON SNYDERLos Alamos Historical Society The observance of Thanksgiving at Los Alamos Ranch School (LARS) in 1941 was the last one of a traditional nature. Ten days later, Pearl Harbor was bombed, and within the next few months Headmaster Lawrence Hitchcock and other masters would be in the military on active duty, but in […]
Manhatten Project Secrecy
On Facebook this month we’re going #InsideTheArchives to explore Manhattan Project secrecy. A military examiner, identified only as #2034, used these two censor form slips to return a letter to Edward Wilder. Wilder Collection, Los Alamos Historical Society Archives and Collections. During the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, large posters featuring sayings such as “What […]
Shopping in Los Alamos
On Facebook we went #InsideTheArchives to explore some of the history of Los Alamos retail. Click through to explore historic photos and artifacts from businesses and shopping in the past. George Hillhouse and Mr. and Mrs. Martin in the Los Alamos Pastry Shop, sometime between 1947–1957. Los Alamos Historical Society Photo Archive. We have wonderful […]
