How to help El Vado Motel again

Emily Priddy, eastern vice president of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association, has contacted me about a way to help El Vado Motel in Albuquerque gain its proposed designation as a city landmark, thus making it much more resistant to the wrecking ball.

Your mission: Write a short letter to the Landmarks and Urban
Conservation Commission, assuring them that either A.) you HAVE stayed at El Vado and plan to do so again, or B.) you haven’t stayed at El Vado but plan to stay there on your next trip if it is open.

This letter can be as short as one sentence: “Richard Gonzales is
wrong when he says nobody will stay at El Vado, because I plan to stay there next time I’m in town.”

Feel free to expand on that idea as much as you like. If you’ve stayed
there before, mention how much you liked it. Or talk about why you
want to stay there, if you haven’t already.

Our whole goal here is to let the city know that when Gonzales claims no one wants to stay at El Vado, he is voicing a personal opinion that has exactly zero basis in anything resembling fact.

Send your letter to:

William (Bill) Dodge, Chair
Landmarks and Urban Conservation Commission
c/o Sherri Hines
Planning Department

1 Civic Plaza NW
Albuquerque, NM 87103

Or e-mail it to:

shines@cabq.gov

While you’re at it, send a copy of your letters to:

letters@abqtribune.com

And post it at the Albuquerque Journal at this site.