Not seen it recently.

Some eons back, visited a physicist friend who'd gone from our lab to Los Alamos (had his very own PDP-Something-du-jour: then.. exciting stuff.)

Just realized that they must be coming up on 70 Years! since everything arose-manically from muddy 'streets'.
Still mixed/emotions at the place: surely about the most exciting science-from-scratch ever..
{imagined?--No, lots of those} ... actually Funded. And with same impetus as that cliché, 'nothing focusses the mind so much as knowing you'll be hanged in the AM',
aka: a Nazi version gestating {{???}}

But I just averted eyes then, in the less gussied-up days of the museum--where the bombs were displayed.
There's a limit (even for bitchin-grade physics) where Jobs' phrase, Insanely. Great. is just too Al Punte literal. (And like that.)

70 Years! (Well, we Made it.. past Cuba and all the sabre rattling along the way.)
But there are way too many of these suckers all polished up/still on MAD hair-triggers.
--to yet ever say W H E W -- it's O V E R.

John and his entire family all worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory at one point or another in their life, and both John and his dad even lived in Los Alamos for awhile as well. But we were disappointed to discover that the awesome gift & bookstore that had been inside the museum has been closed. That had been an exciting store, selling everything from Atomic Cafe T-shirts to little models of the Atom.

I was persistent though, because I wanted to buy T-shirts from the lab bookstore, since the shirt I bought many years ago was starting to wear out. Fortunately, one of the local stores in the Los Alamos square still carried the T-shirts and I was able to get some. But the museum and bookstore had been a really awesome attraction in the past, and I was sorry to see the bookstore closed.

I suspect also that the huge Los Alamos fire which destroyed acres and acres years ago, caused a lot of migration from the town as well. It's isn't exactly a ghost town, but it was sure a lot less busy than I've seen it in past trips.

We saw it right after the fire years back, and ironically, the area of the fire damage looked like a bomb had gone off. It was nice this trip to see trees trying to grow again, and foilage peeking out from the previously charred hillsides.

Brenda

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