ALBUQUERQUE
Former Dairy Queen on Route 66
This photo is the Dairy Queen that used to be located on Route 66, otherwise known as Central Avenue, between Downtown and Old Town next to the Bell Trading Post. This building has been torn down, along with the drive-in hamburger place, Wimpy's Cafe, that was located in the back part of the lot.
There is some argument about who now serves the Wimpy Burger, the Little Red Hamburger Hut (formerly called Wimpy's) located on Mountain Road in the Sawmill neighborhood close to Old Town versus The Red Ball Cafe on Fourth Street in Barelas. The Barelas restaurant claims to be the site of the first Wimpy Burger, although the Old Town location claims to be more authentic.
The next door former "trading post" and jewelry manufacturing building was converted into condos--one of the few condo projects in Albuquerque made from a real converted warehouse. As the city has doesn't have much of a manufacturing history most of our central city condos have been built from scratch or other types of building conversions.
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