Moriarty museum is full of Archie Lewis cars and toys - and many come with a story - Albuquerque Journal
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. — Automobiles, toys and first-hand accounts of days gone by can be a fun way of looking at our history – and Archie Lewis has plenty of all three at his Lewis Antique Auto and Toy Museum in Moriarty. He bought his first car – a 1926 Ford Model T roadster – right around his ninth birthday in August 1945. He had the $40 saved up from selling the Albuquerque Journal on his paper route in Vaughn and Encino, and to railroad passengers at Vaughn’s... Lewis saw it in Corona while he and his mother motored down the highway to deliver truck parts to his dad’s job site, which turned out to be constructing the road along which the atomic bomb would travel on its way from the railroad tracks to the... The delivery was interrupted by the Military Police, who escorted Lewis, his mother and the parts to the job site. They lived in a tent, and Lewis roamed the desert, swam in the water tank at the ranch house, and watched the bomb make its way to the tower. After returning to Vaughn, Lewis bought the car. In a delightful, full-circle kind of way, the car sits a few yards from empty spots in the lot from which vehicles were rented for the production of the “Manhattan” TV series, which is filmed in New Mexico. Source: www.abqjournal.com
