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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:29:00

A million adobe bricks and seventeen years of stop-start construction produced New Mexico's great all-purpose barn - dedicated with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans playing all nine days of the 1957 State Fair. Tingley Coliseum at 300 San Pedro Drive NE sits on the Expo New Mexico fairgrounds in Albuquerque. The project began in 1940 with Works Progress Administration funds championed by Governor Clyde Tingley, part of the fairgrounds rebuild that revived the New Mexico State Fair after a two-decade l...