The New Mexico History Museum is researching historic and modern small businesses to explore for a possible exhibition in the future.

Please help us identify memorable and iconic establishments across New Mexico and throughout New Mexico history that would help to tell this story. In particular, we'd like to focus on sole-proprietor operations and family-owned businesses that sold goods or provided services to local communities.

(We'd like to avoid national chains and franchises.)

We're looking for corner stores, tienditas, general stores, barber shops, moms & pops, cobblers, meat markets, bookstores, record stores, radio stores, repair shops, feed stores, trading posts, very small restaurants and cafes, tailors and seamstresses, laundries, bicycle shops, and so on, that were unique, characteristic, or served as anchors in their neighborhood or town.

Your help is greatly appreciated!