Green chile cheeseburger from the Owl Bar and Cafe.
FWIW, Burger Boy in Cedar Crest NM is better IMO.
Posted on 07/14/2011 6:30:27 PM PDT by NEWwoman
July 16 marks the 66th anniversary of the first explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945. And a month later it ended the most terrible war of the 20th century.
I visited the site in October 2008, one of the two times a year Trinity is open to the public.
Green chile cheeseburger from the Owl Bar and Cafe.
FWIW, Burger Boy in Cedar Crest NM is better IMO.
Oh, man, you are making me huuun-gry!
He and hundreds died of cancer from the exposure.
The Owl Cafe green chile cheeseburgers were very good ... so Burger Boy must be awesome!
Enewetok was host to the first hydrogen weapon tests, many of which went “bigger” than planned. No foreign tests there (the Brits tested in Australia at first). Sorry to hear about his death.
New Mexico is the land of FOOD! And when I get the itch for seafood, my Mom lives on the Chesapeake and we get fish and crabs right from the Watermen.
Sorry about your uncle and all the other consequences, esp to the innocent. A former co-worker from NM recalls many illnesses in his home state.
I thank your family for your service and sacrifice.
BTW, an eldery friend who passed away a few years ago was in the Navy near Japan. He told me he saw the blast of the bomb exploding in Japan from 200 miles away. Wow!
Is Bobcat Bite Cafe still open in Santa Fe? They make the best. IMO
NM does have great food. My dear husband had many work trips there in the past and can attest to that.
BTW, mother-in-law is from MD, and still craves their crab cakes.
This is a great country!
...... Was down at the site before all the security an such an the theater was for civilians. I remember goofing off there for a while.
Don’t remember the burger boy in cedar crest so green chili cheese burger at the owl get my vote....
1988 was last time at White Sands Trinity site.... 93 for a few tests....
Stay Safe Slim !
FrogDad and I went about 15 years ago. The site surprised me in that it was so close to the mountains.
I was surprised by the crowds ... yet how quiet it was.
When I was assigned to WSMR in the mid-90’s I had the pleasure of escorting a British Brigadier to the Trinity Site and lunch in San Antonio, NM at the Owl Bar and Grill.
Still have a bit of trinitite I was able to find at the Trinity Site.
It was also open on July 16, 1995, the 50th anniversary. Two friends and I went and slept in a car overnight to be there at 5:29am. There were a few protesters burning something that smelled like pot to provoke the guards.
The next weekday someone called into Rush’s show and mentioned the protestors. The first time Rush ever personally insulted me was when he implied that everyone there was a deadbeat who had nothing else to do:)
I was there to witness a pivotal place in American history.
Holy mac. That thing would feed me and a team of sherpas.
Wow! What a story. You were no dead beat! It is part of history.
In 2008, we saw some wierd looking minature clay “god” left by the fence about Ground Zero. We squished it.
The natives in NM told me that when the bomb went off at the Trinity site it was visible 90 miles away.
The sand beneath the device fused with the copper in the containment vessel and made a green sheet of glass at ground zero. The glass was removed because of the extremely high radioactivity.
The site is open for visiting 1 weekend per year, but is not much to see. A minor depression in the ground is about all that is left.
White Sands Missle range is a very interesting site. Had many friends who worked there.
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