A-1 Machine Shop by Mel Stone

A-1 Machine Shop, featuring photography by Mel Stone, opens in the Branigan Cultural Center on Friday, September 1, and continues through Saturday, November 8The exhibition offers a photographic tour of A-1 Machine Shop, owned and operated by Las Cruces native Rudy Tirre for over 30 years. The shop, located in Las Cruces’ historic Mesquite District, grinds valves, re-bores engine blocks, grinds crank shafts, and does other specialty jobs that bigger shops are reluctant to handle.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.