Route 66 Centennial Speaker Series: North Fourth Street: Albuquerque's Original Route 66 with Joseph Sabatini

Retired librarian Joe Sabatini will present an illustrated history of Fourth Street, which served as the first Albuquerque alignment of Route 66 from 1926 to 1937. He describes its evolution as a city street, a federal highway, a suburban commercial strip and a redeveloping urban transit corridor. He uses maps, postcards, photographs and Albuquerque Progress magazine issues to celebrate “the most beautiful ugly street in the world.”