{"id":2657,"date":"2023-08-22T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:05:15","slug":"if-it-moves-if-it-spins-youll-find-it-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"If it Moves, If it Spins, You\u2019ll Find it Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">True West Magazine July\/August 2022&nbsp;<br>Jana Bommersbach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>This truly was the \u201cengine\u201d for Albuquerque.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing Rabbi Isador Freed did in 1920, as he de-parted the train in a dusty New Mexico town, was drop to his knees and declare, \u201cAlbuquerque is a special paradise on earth, and we will never leave this place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It had been a long journey, as the Rabbi and his family were escaping the antisemitism of Russia. But he was right\u2014they never left, becoming a mainstay family as Albuquerque grew from 15,000 to a half-million today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His granddaughter, Leba Freed, has honored the family by devoting 26 years to saving that railroad station. (Her father, who was eight when they arrived, grew up to become a major merchant\u2014and a devoted friend to this magazine, advertising for decades.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted to give back to Albuquerque,\u201d Leba&nbsp;says.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truewestmagazine.com\/article\/if-it-moves-if-it-spins-youll-find-it-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True West Magazine July\/August 2022&nbsp;Jana Bommersbach This truly was the \u201cengine\u201d for Albuquerque. The first thing Rabbi Isador Freed did in 1920, as he de-parted the train in a dusty New Mexico town, was drop to his knees and declare, \u201cAlbuquerque is a special paradise on earth, and we will never leave this place.\u201d It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelsmuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}