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Suitcase at Pinkman's Pickup • John B Robert Dam, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023 08-27
—guess Ed the Disappearer was in a hurry....
Google Maps actually shows a marker in front of John B. Robert Dam named "Pinkmans Pickup Location."
Okay, for those who don't know: This place (on a w i d e view from across the street) is a famous location from Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and (tangentially) El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Sadly, the two pathetic cottonwoods at street level, where Ed would pick you up to escape your old life, are now gone.
This is near the top of the baffled spillway – that's what all those standing concrete structures are: baffles for water flow. Though nobody recalls water ever getting to the point of raging over the top to be baffled. Actually you're unlikely to see water anywhere around here.
On the other side is a spillway-long, maybe 40-ft wide concrete platform that neighborhood kids love to ride bikes on, and where folk congregate on summer nights to play & watch sunsets. Beyond that is massive Bear Canyon Arroyo Open Space, a valley really, where rain channels off the Sandias to a culvert on the southwest corner into the City's flood diversion system.
Suitcase at Pinkman's Pickup • John B Robert Dam, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023 08-27
—guess Ed the Disappearer was in a hurry....
Google Maps actually shows a marker in front of John B. Robert Dam named "Pinkmans Pickup Location."
Okay, for those who don't know: This place (on a w i d e view from across the street) is a famous location from Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and (tangentially) El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Sadly, the two pathetic cottonwoods at street level, where Ed would pick you up to escape your old life, are now gone.
This is near the top of the baffled spillway – that's what all those standing concrete structures are: baffles for water flow. Though nobody recalls water ever getting to the point of raging over the top to be baffled. Actually you're unlikely to see water anywhere around here.
On the other side is a spillway-long, maybe 40-ft wide concrete platform that neighborhood kids love to ride bikes on, and where folk congregate on summer nights to play & watch sunsets. Beyond that is massive Bear Canyon Arroyo Open Space, a valley really, where rain channels off the Sandias to a culvert on the southwest corner into the City's flood diversion system.