Here's some photos from my 2001 vacation to New Mexico. My friend Greg took me for a tour of a local store called "The Black Hole." The place is run by a former Los Alamos National Laboratories employee-turned peace activist who now sells surplus items from the lab. The stuff inside the store was an odd cross between an Army surplus store and the prop department for Dr. Strangelove. [Note: Movie title corrected on 2/17/05, per Marjorie's comment]
Yes, the photo here shows me holding a decommissioned sea mine and behind me seems to be a pile of assorted missle casings.
![[image: Alan holding a sea mine casing]](http://www.execnet.net/users/alan/blogs/archives/alanskew/020_17A_alan_black_hole_vis.jpg)
![[image: front yard of The Black Hole]](http://www.execnet.net/users/alan/blogs/archives/alanskew/021_18A_black_hole.jpg)
If you're curious, you can read a July 2004 news story about some interesting happenings at the store: FBI agents raid Los Alamos store
Check back here in a few days for the photos I took at Bandelier National Monument.
Hey, i'll be in NM in June. Albu and Gallup.
Just developing film are you, Dr. Strange"glove"? ;) Like Arizona, New Mexico is interesting in itself just for little gems of places like these.
This is what happens when I write blog entries under the influence of cold medicine. Thanks Marjorie!
So, stop keeping us in suspense. What did you buy? And can I come over and play with it?
I remember these pics! Too funny! When I read the title of the blog post I was intrigued, now I remember how silly this was, thanks for the laugh Alan, and the news article about the raid. The tape had been on display for 10 years and now they raid the place and take it?!
Now I know where the gene for developing films in an untimely manner went. Thanks for the fun in the sun on a snowy? wintery day. Mom