ROUTE 66: 1939 Postcard

ROUTE 66

1939 Postcard

Pictured is the Rosenwald Brothers Department Store building on Route 66, aka Central Avenue, in Downtown Albuquerque. The Sunshine building can be seen in the upper left corner.

The building is listed on the National Historic Register and is the first cast concrete structure in the state. The buildings sits at Fourth and Central, the crossroads of the old pre-1937 north/south alignment of Route 66 and the later east/west route through Albuquerque.

The building is currently vacant. The bottom two floors are owned by the city.