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Black Hole Frommer's Recommended

4015 Arkansas Ave, Los Alamos, NM

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Hours Mon-Sat 10am-5pm
Phone 505/662-5053
Prices Free admission

Review of Black Hole

This store/museum is an engineer's dream world, a creative photographer's heaven, and a Felix Unger nightmare. Owned and run by Edward Grothus, it's an old grocery store packed to the ceiling with the remains of the nuclear age, from Geiger counters to giant Waring blenders. If you go, be sure to visit with Grothus. He'll point out an A-frame building next door that he's christened the "First Church of High Technology," where he says a "critical mass" each Sunday. In this business for over 50 years, Grothus has been written about in Wired magazine and has supplied props for the movies Silkwood, Earth II, and The Manhattan Project.

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