Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Raton to Deming
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Overview
A look at the memorable chain of restaurants and hotels and its place in New Mexico’s history.
The Santa Fe Line and the famous Fred Harvey restaurants forever changed New Mexico and the Southwest, bringing commerce, culture, and opportunity to a desolate frontier. The first Harvey Girls ever hired staffed the Raton location. In a departure from the ubiquitous black and white uniform immortalized by Judy Garland in 1946’s TheHarvey Girls, many of New Mexico’s Harvey Girls wore colorful dresses reflective of local culture. In Albuquerque, the Harvey-managed Alvarado Hotel doubled as a museum for carefully curated native art. Join author Rosa Walston Latimer and discover New Mexico’s unique history of hospitality the “Fred Harvey way.”
The Santa Fe Line and the famous Fred Harvey restaurants forever changed New Mexico and the Southwest, bringing commerce, culture, and opportunity to a desolate frontier. The first Harvey Girls ever hired staffed the Raton location. In a departure from the ubiquitous black and white uniform immortalized by Judy Garland in 1946’s TheHarvey Girls, many of New Mexico’s Harvey Girls wore colorful dresses reflective of local culture. In Albuquerque, the Harvey-managed Alvarado Hotel doubled as a museum for carefully curated native art. Join author Rosa Walston Latimer and discover New Mexico’s unique history of hospitality the “Fred Harvey way.”
- Title: Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Raton to Deming
- Author: Rosa Walston Latimer
- Publisher: The History Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 147
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781625853585, 9781626198593, 1626198594, 1625853580
- Resource ID: LLS:9781625853585
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T18:11:21Z
Rosa Walston Latimer is a writer, independent bookstore owner, playwright and award-winning photographer. Inspired by her Harvey Girl grandmother, this is Latimer's second book on the Harvey legacy, following Harvey Houses of Texas. Her research has also appeared in “Texas Highways,” and a staged play based on her grandmother's chance encounter at a Harvey House with the man she would one day marry. Latimer is currently writing a play titled “Rosie the Riveters” and a third Harvey House book.