WHEELS Upcoming Events
The History of Juan de Onate
Speaker: Dianne Layden
Saturday, June 22, 2024 11:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is free, but donations are always gratefully accepted.
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Dianne Layden, PhD will present the history of Juan de Oñate as a conquistador, what happened at Acoma Pueblo and its consequences, the three statues of Oñate in Alcalde (near Espanola), Albuquerque, and El Paso, what happened to the statues in June 2020 (two statues are in storage), and the September 2023 shooting in Espanola where Rio Arriba County considered reinstalling the Alcalde statue. There will be handouts with pictures of the three statues.
AI/Artificial Intelligence and how it affects transportation
Speaker: John Boersma
Saturday, June 29, 2024 10:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is free, but donations are always gratefully accepted.
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Musical Event
The Jeff Mann Trio Performance
Saturday, July 6, 2024 11:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is $10 per person
Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269 To RSVP
Jeff Mann is a Singer-Songwriter from SoCal transplanted to NM in 2016. Touch of Grey is a vehicle for his music...a three-piece band playing an eclectic mix of original rock/blues, reggae, and americana as well as a blend of B-side history. Come give us a listen.
Sunday, July 7, 2024 8-11am Car Council Collector Car Day
Hobey Baker, Pilot and the Sopwith Camel
Speaker: Ron Panebouf
Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is free, but donations are always gratefully accepted.
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Ron Panebouf, Historian- will speak about Hobey Baker, Pilot . During WWI, he flew a Sopwith Camel.
Musical Event:
Steve Cormier, Country Music
Saturday, June 20, 2024 at 12 Noon
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is $10 per person
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Steve Cormier’s music is informed by nine years as a day work cowboy in the Flint Hills of Kansas and Eastern New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in American Studies specializing in ranch history and culture. He sings and tells the stories of the west before Hollywood movies glorified what is hard, often thankless work. He sings of horses, cattle, love and loneliness, old age, young age, real heroes and heroines, and discovery, all wrapped up in story and song, including a song or two that he has written.
Musical Event:
Albuquerque Drum Jam
Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 11 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is $10 per person
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Speaker Event
The History of Bus Tokens
Hazel Lathrop
Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is free, but donations are always gratefully accepted.
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Hazel Lathrop will speak about bus tokens and the history of that mode of travel. Bus and subway fare tokens were a fact of life for many commuters in cities large and small across the country. Fare tokens were a convenience for frequent riders and provided savings over cash fares. Introduced by 1930 they were still in use in the 1970’s.
Shortly after the railroad arrived in Albuquerque in 1885, it became clear that people would need transportation from the depot to their destination. From the mule drawn wagons of 1880 to electrically moved trolleys on rails in 1904 the need to provided public transportation grew as the city grew.
Find out more about fare tokens, how the Albuquerque Bus Company grew, who and how fare tokens were made and changing fare structures.
Speaker Event
The restoration of the AT & SF 2926 steam engine.
John Taylor
Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 10:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is free, but donations are always gratefully accepted.
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Speaker Event
New Mexico Historic Markers
Phil and Roseanne Archuleta
Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 11:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is free, but donations are always gratefully accepted.
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Phil is a native New Mexican having grown up in a small town called El Rito, in northern New Mexico. His love of the history of his State started at a young age, as did his inventing. To date he has patented six of his inventions. He wrote and published his first book Traveling New Mexico, over 20 years ago. He has also co-written several books with his wife Rosanne Roberts Archuletta, including, Women Marked for History, which won the 2015 New Mexico Historic Preservation Award, By the Grace of God – Stories from the American Dream, and New Mexico Historic Marker Roadmaps: Inspiring Stories of Men, Women and Places.
Rosanne’s love of history began at a very young age. She has co-written several books with her husband, including, Women Marked for History, By the Grace of God – Stories from the American Dream, and New Mexico Historic Marker Roadmaps: Inspiring Stories of Men, Women and Places.
Musical Event:
Joel Alden White Country Western Performance
Sunday, August 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is $10 per person
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Joe Alden White was born in West Texas. His grandfather, he believed, was a musical savant. He could play any instrument that he could hold, he played the trumpet for the likes of the Jimmy Dorsey band during the big band era. He changed careers a few times… like cowboying on ranches that measured themselves, not by acres, but by square miles, to buy cattle, managing a feedyard, owning construction companies and even a commercial laundry.
From his earliest memories there was music in his home. Beethoven or Herb Albert and the Tiajuana Brass would be spinning on Dad's old turn table, Roger Miller would be singing about "The King of The Road" or Burl Ives would tell how "Bill Grogan's Goat" flagged a train… Then the Beatles happened… and Dylan, The Stones, Iron Butterfly, CCR, CSN&Y, Cream, Cocker, Allman Brothers, Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. Then he heard Guy Clark…he states, “I needed to hear songwriters, but not just any writers and any old songs. I needed a country beat. Songs that spoke of real folks, folks that I knew. I needed to hear Jerry Jeff, Prine, Fromholz, BW, Kristofferson, Emmylou, Pure Prairie League, Flying Burrito Bros, Lucinda, Nancy Griffith, Steve Earle, Townes, Cash, Jones, Waylon, Ray Wylie, Chris Knight, Hayes Carll, John Moreland and on and on… I was surrounded by music and by friends who played and wrote music. I had no choice but to write songs.”
Musical Event:
Dan Martin and Gene Williams
Monday, August 19, 2024 at 11:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is $10 per person
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Dan Martin and Gene Williams, both well-known Oklahoma singer/songwriters, will be featured and play their original music, along with covers by the likes of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Petty and John Prine. Guitarist Williams is known for his work with the late Oklahoma music pioneer Tom Skinner, as well as a stint with Townes Van Zandt. Dan Martin draws inspiration from the land he is from to the places he has traveled. Since 2014, Martin’s travels have taken him around the world.
Musical Event:
Kristy Hinds
Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 11:00 AM
At WHEELS Museum 1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Admission is $10 per person
Reservations required. Call WHEELS at (505) 243-6269
Kristy’s music is deeply rooted in jazz and improvisation … and morphs from there. Like all the best artists before her, she is stepping ahead with her own style. Drawing from diverse influences like Nina Simone, Mingus, Steely Dan, and Queen, she shapes something entirely unique. Her shows feature her original jazz inflected music mixed with familiar jazz standards — rendered as anything but — and well-loved pop tunes put through her unique stylistic filter. It all comes together in an unforgettable, sonic feast for the ears that has audiences raving.
