Follow the original train tracks out of Los Alamos, New Mexico to find the house at Otowi Bridge.

Owned by Edith Warner, the house served as the only place the community of scientists could get away to. Los Alamos, where the atomic bomb was created, was heavily guarded and so were the residents. At first the Army did not allow anyone to leave the confined city. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, convinced the Army to allow the families to go down the hill for dinner under assumed names.

The physicists escaped the exhausting task of building a nuclear bomb. The families were attracted to the generous portions of stew, warm baked bread, and locally grown vegetables. Dinner at the house was reserved weeks in advanced.

After the two bombs were dropped in Japan, a new bridge was built that bypassed the little house. The people of the San Ildefonso Pueblo and Los Alamos helped Edith build a new house further away.

The city was not longer heavily protected, so the families could move around freely. The house at Otowi Bridge was no longer needed by the community for a place to stop in for a piece of chocolate cake.

Narrative written by University of West Florida Public History Students.