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.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Editor’s note: The Journal continues “What’s in a Name?,” a twice a month column in which staff writer Elaine Briseño will give a short history of how places in New Mexico got their names. The main gate at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the atomic bomb era. (Courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory) Los Alamos Ranch School emerged atop the Pajarito plateau in 1917, fulfilling the dream of Ashley Pond, a free-spirited businessman from Detroit. He could have never imagined that the campus, an outdoor sanctuary for burgeoning young men, would become the site of one of the country’s most celebrated, and deadly, scientific achievements – the atomic bomb. The campus also gave rise to Bathtub Row, one of the most prominent and unusually named streets in the area. ....
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Editor’s note: The Journal continues “What’s in a Name?,” a twice a month column in which staff writer Elaine Briseño will give a short history of how places in New Mexico got their names. According to the Navajo mythology, it’s a place “Where Big God’s Blood Coagulated.” In modern day, El Malpais is a place of mystery, danger and beauty. At this ice cave, in El Malpais National Monument south of Grants, temperatures stay below freezing all year round. (Amanda Schoenberg/Albuquerque Journal) It also happens to be a national monument and protected conservation area. ....
Editor’s note: The Journal continues “What’s in a Name?,” a twice a month column in which staff writer Elaine Briseño will give a short history of how places in New Mexico got their names.
Decades ago, the University of New Mexico’s longest serving president had a vision of Broadway in the desert. Tom Popejoy, left, with an associate on Oct. 14, 1966. (Journal File) It took political wrangling and the fortitude to endure a marathon fundraising campaign, but Tom Popejoy would see that vision built on university grounds. ...................... The world-class Popejoy Hall opened in October 1966, marking the state’s first true venue built for the performing arts. ....