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Title: Civilizing the Old WestAuthor: David SteinbergPublisher: Albuquerque JournalDate: 1/18/2009Judy Garland was a Harvey Girl, if only in film. Garland starred in the 1946 movie "The Harvey Girls," which featured the Oscar-winning song "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe."In real life, the Harvey Girls were waitresses at the popular Harvey Houses, which British immigrant Fred Harvey had started in the 1880s. The houses ― really, restaurants, curio shops and in some cases hotels ― catered to tourists who traveled by train between Chicago and Los Angeles. Most Fred Harvey Houses were at stations along the Santa Fe Railway in the Southwest, such as the razed Alvarado Hotel in Albuquerque and La Castañeda in Las Vegas, N.M. A few others, like La Fonda in downtown Santa Fe and the Montezuma outside of Las Vegas, were luxury hotels miles from the rail stop. The heyday of the houses was in the 1920s. Business dropped off in the next decade with the Great Depression and the rising competition from automobile travel. Historian Richard Melzer of Belen has put together a book of vintage photographs and picture postcards that captures the bustle of activities at the famous businesses, the life of the waitresses and other employees and the tourists who visited. Garland may not have visited a Harvey House, but a photo (c. 1925) in Melzer's book shows actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Pickford with Albuquerque Mayor Clyde Tingley. The caption says the actors were frequent Alvarado visitors. Melzer came to the subject because of his long association as a docent with the Valencia County Historical Society, of which he is currently vice president. The society operates Belen's Harvey House Museum. "A lot of people take the Rail Runner to Belen, and that's the place they like to visit," the 59-year-old Melzer said. "It sits by the station." Photos in the book show Harvey Houses located at Clovis, Gallup, Deming, San Marcial, Rincon, Vaughn and, briefly, in Raton. For the book, Melzer said he wrote the introduction and photo captions and was responsible for gathering the photographs. Some of the proceeds of his book will go to support the museum, Melzer said. He's invited former Harvey Girls who live in the Albuquerque area to attend his book event at Bookworks today . Melzer, who is also president of the Historical Society of New Mexico, teaches two New Mexico history classes at the UNM Valencia campus in which he discusses the Harvey Houses. Besides La Fonda, several former Harvey Houses are still operating as hotels, according to Melzer. They are El Tovar and Bright Angel at the Grand Canyon, one at Winslow, Ariz., and another in Needles, Calif. The Albuquerque Museum will present the exhibit "Jewel of the Railroad Era: Albuquerque's Alvarado Hotel," which opens March 8. It will be up through June 7. In conjunction with the exhibit, the museum is publishing Deb Slaney's book of the same title. Melzer wrote the introduction for a newly released history book. It is titled "The Whole Damned World: New Mexico Aggies at War: 1941-1945, World War II Correspondence of Dean Daniel B. Jett" edited by Martha Shipman Andrews. (NMSU Library/Rio Grande Books). Jett was dean of engineering between 1938 and 1947 at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later NMSU). During the war he corresponded with hundreds of former students.

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About the Author

While whole books have been written about the Santa Fe Railway, the Harvey Girls, and even the Harvey House china, recipes, and menus, not one has been published about the Harvey Houses themselves. In this volume, author and professor of history at the University of New Mexico’s Valencia campus Richard Melzer has compiled more than 180 rare historical photographs and other memorabilia to tell the unique story of the Harvey Houses. Dr. Melzer also serves as the president of the Historical Society of New Mexico and has been a longtime docent at the Harvey House Museum in his hometown of Belen, New Mexico.

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Product details

Paperback: 128 pages

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing; First Edition edition (November 17, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0738556319

ISBN-13: 978-0738556314

Product Dimensions:

6.5 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

23 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#120,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I've learned so much from every edition of the Images of America series, and this book on the Harvey Houses of the Southwest is no exception. Loved the photos and all the information to be found in the captions. This is an excellent addition to my collection of books on Fred Harvey and the Southwest Indian Detours.

Quality of pictures and the book was great. I learned a lot about the subject and it make me want to see what other subjects these books had to offer. I have several, and they are all appealing.

This book, Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest, is a fascinating look at the past when railroads took passengers to the West and there was a great need for them to have clean, safe restaurants to eat in when the trains pulled into the stations. Fred Harvey, his beautiful houses/hotels and the Harvey girls provided many needs for the weary traveler and/or famous passengers of that era. A great read and one of several Fred Harvey books that are just as interesting.SKYD

I suppose living in New Mexico and Arizona, where many Harvey Houses were scattered along the railroad tracks (and having eaten and stayed in a lot of them before most were torn down - what a shame!), I may have more interest in Fred Harvey (and the Harvey Girls) than many people would. Still, it's a very interesting book for people who like history - well-written and entertaining.

I've visited some of the Harvey Houses over the last 50 years and love them. This book was especially interesting partly because of that. It has nice photos of some of them and some interesting text. I think the author could have found photos of some of the others also, which I think would have been nice. Still a nice book.

---Excellent look at a franchise once intimately known by name by most Americans--The Fred Harvey Houses (hotel/restaurant chain located along the Santa Fe railroad route)....Remarkable photographs, and interviews with original "Harvey girls". Superb.

As someone researching the Fred Harvey house in Needles, CA, I was pleased at finding photographs of the El Garces and the Harvey Girls in this book. As with all the Images of America books from Arcadia, the book is full of photographs with captions, but doesn't go into great detail.

good informational book

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