Buckman Crossing
Another #InsideTheArchives post originally from our Facebook page, @LosAlamosHistory. Henry S. Buckman owned a sawmill named the Buckman Set located in the Jemez Mountains. His logging business, from 1898–1902, required him to develop roads leading from the Rio Grande to his site. In that short time, according to Historic Transportation Routes on the Pajarito Plateau by Dorothy Hoard, […]
Are Playgrounds Historic?
Absolutely! Here’s an #InsideTheArchives post from our Facebook account that looks at a couple of historic photographs from two local playgrounds alongside a collection of current photos from this year. These snapshots give us changes to the structures over the years. These can inform us about what interested kids at the time, what was considered […]
Los Alamos Movie Theaters
Earlier this summer, we reflected on the closure of the Reel Deal Theater with an #InsideTheArchives post on Facebook exploring the history of movie theaters in our community. Since the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos has had six separate theaters with some of those being acquired by different owners and renamed. Our Archives has a number of […]
Living and Working in Fuller Lodge
Here’s another #InsideTheArchives post from our Facebook page, this one focusing on people whose lives intersected with Fuller Lodge: the waitresses of The Lodge hotel. In our society it is rare to live and work in the same location (although this is now the case for many us during this time of COVID-19). The Lodge […]
Fuller Lodge – The Story Behind the Name
By SHARON SNYDERLos Alamos Historical SocietyFuller Lodge, the venerable log building and the heart of our town, was actually named Edward P. Fuller Lodge, and this is the story of how it got its name. The Lodge, as it is called most of the time, was designed by noted Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem […]
Los Alamos – September 1945
The Bulletin kept the community informed once a week with news ranging from events to golf clubs for sale to lost and found kittens. It also listed movies being shown in the post theater. The community was fortunate that week. Meet Me In St. Louis was showing and starred Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien and Mary […]
Worthwhile History Off the Beaten Path
Gilman Tunnels. Photo by Sharon Snyder By Sharon SnyderLos Alamos Historical SocietyWith autumn just around the corner, thoughts of colorful foliage and drives through the mountains come to mind. State Road 4 passes through golden aspens and accents of red in the Jemez Mountains, but it can also take you to an interesting piece of […]
The Other Los Alamos That Touched Our History
Eastern plains, San Miguel County, New Mexico. Photo by Sharon Snyder By SHARON SNYDERLos Alamos Historical SocietyWhen Ashley Pond Jr. founded the Los Alamos Ranch School in 1917, the road from Santa Fe to the school passed through the tiny village of Buckman, situated on the east side of the Rio Grande. Buckman was a […]
A Journalist at Trinity and Over Nagasaki
New York Times journalist William Laurence. Courtesy image By SHARON SNYDERLos Alamos Historical SocietyJournalist William Laurence already had a keen interest in science when he attended the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences in 1936. Four years later he attended a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to hear a young scientist named […]
Special Dog Remembered From Manhatten Project Days
By SHARON SNYDERLos Alamos Historical SocietyMany famous names emerged from the Manhattan Project years on the Pajarito Plateau, but not all were scientists.Haskell Sheinberg, who came to Los Alamos as a member of the Special Engineer Detachment and stayed at the lab after the war years, remembered one such name. When Sheinberg was interviewed by […]
