ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A proposal to move a former diner now being used as an Albuquerque Police substation in Nob Hill will be presented at a community meeting next week.
The plan includes moving the former Little House Café in Nob Hill’s Triangle Park, located on the corner of Girard and Central Avenue, to the Route 66 Visitor Center on the city’s westside. The building was originally a Valentine Diner, one of the many prefabricated diners that became popular in the 1930s and could be easily moved.
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Now, the city hopes to move and restore the 1940s-era diner as part of a historical exhibit for the Route 66 centennial next year. “When we move it to a place like the Visitor Center, where we will have staff starting later this summer, we can open it to the public so that people can actually go into this space,” Shelle Sanchez, the director of Arts and Culture for the City of Albuquerque, told KRQE in a previous interview in June…