Route 66 Centennial Speaker Series, Saturday, February 28 at 11am – 12:30pm. North Fourth Street: Albuquerque’s Original Route 66

Join us for a year long, monthly historical lecture series for the Route 66 Centennial in 2026! From January to November on 4th Saturdays at 11am. East Mountain Public Library in Tijeras. Come a hear different speakers on a wide range of topics. Free. Open to the public.

About the Talk. North Fourth Street: ABQ’s Original Route 66
Join us for a richly illustrated history of Fourth Street, which served as the first Albuquerque alignment of Route 66 from 1926 to 1937. See its evolution as a city street, a federal highway, a suburban commercial strip and a redeveloping urban transit corridor. Celebrate “the most beautiful ugly street in the world.”

About the Speaker. Joseph Sabatini
Sabatini has a Masters in Library Science, with a long career curating and presenting New Mexico’s cultural heritage in libraries at schools, communities, City of ABQ, and University of New Mexico. His projects include numerous exhibits and presentations, for example, an extensive “Postcard History of Albuquerque” at the Special Collections Library. Now retired, Sabatini volunteers at the Library and Archives at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, the New Mexico Library Association and the ABQ Historical Society.

About the Route 66 Centennial Speaker Series. At a dozen sites along Route 66, each month will see a dozen different talks. The speakers will rotate each month, so we will have different talks each month at the Tijeras Public Library.

Current schedules on a new website: https://www.route66speakers.org/

Also, you can follow us on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/Route66HistoryTalks/

Sponsored by the Albuquerque Historical Society, East Mountain Historical Society, Historic Albuquerque, Inc., and the Los Ranchos Historical Society.