For my birthday, Renay bought me a book called “Albuquerque, a guide to the weird, wonderful and obscure”. What better tool for a geocacher!!!
This book is full of strange and super cool interesting places and history about Albuquerque. Many places already have caches nearby but I’ve learned a ton of things about our city and have set up a dozen caches to teach and entertain.
I can’t thank the author enough, Ashley Biggers, for all the great research and information about this treasure we call Albuquerque!
Have fun!!!!
With our military bases and the work at Los Alamos, espionage and secrets are nothing new to Albuquerque. But here is your chance to get close to some real James Bond stuff!
At GZ is a bed and breakfast that originally was the Freeman Boarding house where David and Ruth Greenglass lived. David worked at Los Alamos as a machinist for the Manhattan Project. David had been talked into spying by sister Ethel Rossenberg and her husband Julius to pass along drawings of the nuclear weapon’s trigger system to Soviet spies.
On June 2nd, 1945, Soviet spy Harry Gold met with David at this location to exchange the drawing for the trigger system for $500. In order to make sure each was who they said they were, they had matched pieces cut out of a Jell-O box.
The table where David sketched the trigger mechanism for Gold (which was used in the espionage trial of the Rossenbergs) remains in the same room #4 where the Greenglasses lived.