It was demolished for construction of the Williams Center. TUCSON, Ariz. - The Tucson Border Patrol Station is taking applications for their "Citizen's Academy" planned for later this year. From 1995-2004, he was director of photography at the East Valley Tribune in Mesa. If you like photos that explore Tucson's past, you can see more each week by subscribing to our history newsletter:http://tucne.ws/time. ZZ Top in concert at the University of Arizona McKale Center Aug. 12, 1991. Did you know? He played two concerts in Tucson, on Aug. 9, 1972, and June 29, 1973. This is a photo of the Fox Theatre on Congress Street and Stone Avenue toward the north on Thursday, October 24, 2013 in Tucson, Ariz. The new section of Interstate 10 is lower left. Scott Ave looking south from Pennington St toward Congress. It as a chillly 18-degrees at altitude. Tony Blanton was his grandfather. World War II As It Happened. CITIZEN STAFFERS REMEMBER Lloyds exerting maximum efforts for the Wildcats 4-year stay in Tucson became 21 special years 52 years of scholars. It was the first police helicopter patrol operation in Arizona. Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion. At lower right, the La Reforma Housing Project, which housed defense industry workers during WWII. Tucson looking north from about 20th Street in 1929. Our records indicate the name is only found in Tucson, Arizona, said Roy Betts, national spokesman for the Postal Service. WAYNE BAKER. Read Tucson Daily Citizen Newspaper Archives, Sep 4, 1973, p. 1 with family history and genealogy records from tucson, arizona 1940-1977. . Downtown Tucson lights The lights of businesses. Tucson Mall construction well-underway in 1981. Explore the comprehensive records in our online database, and you'll gain access to almost 150 years of local history. Video by Rick Wiley / Arizona Daily Star. Interstate 10 (refered to as the "Tucson freeway" in newspapers at the time) under construction at Speedway Blvd. The 42-unit hotel, built in 1928, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Rock slides up ahead kept motorists from going further. Available on microfilm from State of Arizona Library & Archives, Phoenix, Ariz, and the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service. The drive ended at the Nelson Livestock Aucions yard, 455 N. Highway Drive. Tony Blanton, a prominent Tucson planner for decades, is a likely candidate for being the person who originated the term stravenue.. Traffic along West Congress Street near the Santa Cruz River moves along on July 24, 1970. He is a graduate of ASU (yes, that ASU). This is a 1925 photo of the All Auto Camp on 2650 N Oracle Rd at Jacinto which featured casitas with the names of a state on the buildings. Winds light and variable. The newspaper ended print publica Most Popular Shooting reveals unexpected threat to urban bobcats in. For example, an 8,000 square foot lot could contain a casita as large as 800 square feet. She was 54. The Tucson Gas and Electric generating station (no longer there) is at right. If you get a text asking you to update your drivers license, dont click. He never dreamed at the time that he might be related to the man who invented them the man for whom Blanton Drive near Fort Lowell Road and Tucson Boulevard is now named. He is a graduate of ASU (yes, that ASU). It became Tucson Country Club. High near 55F. The new Selby Motors Mercury dealership at 2200 E. Broadway Road, Tucson, in 1956. Court Street in Tucson, c. 1900. Police are today appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened at 7.45pm on Monday. It was demolished in 1984. at the Pantano Wash in Tucson, 1981. Photos of Tucson as far back as the 1880s the archives of the Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star. Snow covers the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, probably in February, 1966. Rick Wiley is the photo editor of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. Tucson Daily Citizen Newspaper Archives (1940-1977) Browse by Year 1940-1977 (38 years available). 1933. Donald e. Scherck left of Davis Mon than fab and spec. Dial Loans the the old Federal Courthouse on Broadway, east of Stone Ave. Tucson Citizen file photo. A house on the Sosa-Carrillo-Frmont property dates to the 1860s when a home was built by Jos Mara Sosa III and his wife, Solana Mendoza Sos, Architect Josias Joesler established a style that became emblematic of Tucson in the early 20th century. Citizen photo Bank counsel resigns Post Lawrence v. Robertson sr., a member of the Board of direct Toi s for the Bank of Tucson arid its general counsel Lias . The Arizona Department of Transportation launched the newest contact-less service days before the expiration of the drivers license deferral period. Tucson homes popping up in 1965. Tony Blanton rides a horse with his first child, Beverly, at his fathers ranch house on Hedrick Drive, near Campbell Avenue and Fort Lowell Road in 1936. For Star subscribers: The ramifications could be felt throughout the entire region if the long running initiative dies: Decades of Tucson road work will be at risk, the expansion of Arizonas transportation network could be stunted for years, and poor tribes in Pima County would lose out on needed infrastructure indefinitely. Both buildings were demolished in 1958 to make way for a parking lot. The plans for the building are to have commercial businesses on the ground level with office space in the upper floors. The new Palo Verde High School is at bottom right. Looking north into downtown Tucson, from about 20th Street and what is now Interstate 10, in 1946. Major construction projects are inching closer to offering Tucsonans smoother and quicker rides around town. A pedestrian in his forties has been killed in a road traffic collision outside Xscape in CMK. in the early 1960s. Keep reading with a digital access subscription. Kenneth E. Carter performs with the Guess Who at the Tucson Community Center Aug. 10, 1986. Ray Manley by Carroll Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. The street running left to right in the center of the photo is Westover Ave. Rick Wiley is the photo editor of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. The annual Tucson Desert Song Festival opens Jan. 18 and has a spring session in March. The former Westerner Hotel building on Stone Avenue and Broadway Boulevard looking Southeast. Rio Nuevo wants the state Legislature to loosen the purse strings so the district can start , The University of Arizona has been around for quite some time and has a story or two to tell, The University of Arizona's Old Main, the oldest public building in Arizona this side of San, #ThisIsTucson (@this_is_tucson) Instagram photos and videos. Neil Young performed at the Tucson Convention Center Nov. 13, 1986. The street that angles from left to right is South Osborne Ave. Get this Tucson Citizen page for free from Wednesday, January 7, 1976 sintsses-Services CARPENTRY WORK ALL PHASES EXPERIENCED & RELIABLE Porches Porch Enclosures Framing & Trim Work Doors Arizona . The new Palo Verde High School is at bottom right. The U.S. The Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital (now the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System) looking southwest from about Benson Highway and Park Ave. in 1954. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.. She had four children. The purpose of the flight, said Raciti, was prove the stability of the delta wing for high speed flight. ), 35 fun events happening in Tucson this weekend Jan. 12-16 . That dark swath at the top of the photo is the western end of the Southern Pacific RR yard (dark due to years of coal and oil residue). This is the MacArthur Building on Toole Avenue and Pennington Street. It was the end of the steam engine age, which accounts for the coal and oil residue along the tracks. 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Photos: A look back at Tucson-area streets, Road Runner: ADOT distracted driving campaign shows true dangers of inattention, Tucson Real Estate: Seattle firm drops $65.5M on local apartment complex, Tucson looks to lure out-of-state work-from-home employees with perks, Road Runner: Sun Tran moves to lessen environmental impacts from bus fleet, Road Runner: Crews making headway with major Tucson road projects, Fave Five: Stravenue origin story is a trip down memory lane for one Tucson family, Road Runner: Tucsonans to see better bicycle and pedestrian pathways in $1.4M project, Road Runner: Report claims Arizona roads in good shape; more work ahead, Road Runner: Plan would add alternative-fueling sites along I-10 through Arizona, Driving-while-texting ban to span Arizona in 2021, Street Smarts: Hunter Subdivision No. But dont believe everything you read on the internet. It features six stravenues that were mapped out in February 1948, three months before the plat for Pueblo Gardens. Calendar item that ran in the Arizona Daily Star June 29, 1973. Area in 1979 along North Oracle Road near the entrance of the Oracle Road Self Storage at 4700 N Oracle Rd near the Rillito River which would now be north of the Tucson Mall. From. Read 1901-1977 Tucson Citizen Newspaper Archives from Tucson, Arizona. Tucson Country Club in 1957, 11 years after a group of 50 people purchased a ranch for Tucson's second golf country club. Note the Ryan-Evans Drugs on the corner, at right, originally owned by the Martin family. Arroyo Chico winds its way through the lower right side. The caption on the photo reads, "Today, the University (of Arizona) has more buildings than vacant land." That was in February, 1955. Theyre being broadcast on television and radio stations in English and Spanish and shared on ADOTs social media platforms. A non-profit group saved the hotel from the wrecking ball in 1989. Historic archive aerial photos of Tucson Tucson andthe Santa Catalina Mountains from 17,500-feet, looking north front about the rodeo grounds (bottom of photo) in March, 1956. Rick Wiley is the photo editor of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. The photo shows the land in late 1947. The tape helps her get through moments when the thought of her daughter's murder is too much to handle. Host Marvin Duckler, left, and puppeteer Bonni Haber on the set of "Man in the Box of Blocks" in May, 1970, in Tucson. It was opened to traffic in October, 1963. "It's kind of a funny game like that," Guentzel said. Downtown Tucson looking east from Main Ave in the early 1950s, before any urban redevelopment projects had taken hold. ", Puppeteers at work during "Man in the Box of Blocks," a Tucson-produced educational children's show in May, 1970. The Stone Avenue widening project between Drachman and Lester streets in April, 1955. The lights of businesses on Stone Avenue in downtown Tucson, looking south from Ventura Street in July, 1971. Content from 46 countries and all 50 states. Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson and Al Jardine in forefront of a song. A Pioneer Constructors pneumatic roller is used to compact the gravel base for an 80-foot roadway. The historic Santa Rita Hotel rises up behind the fire station. Read Tucson Daily Citizen Newspaper Archives, Jul 24, 1967, p. 1 with family history and genealogy records from tucson, arizona 1940-1977. . Simpson Street is at the center of the photo, leading to Carrillo School (known for the annual Las Posadas procession), just beyond U.S. Highway 84 (now I-10). Things have certainly changed in 50 years. Old photos from the Tucson Citizen photo archives are matched with photos taken by Daily Star photographer A.E. a Tucson Citizen arts reporter, painted the elegant "Laughter in New Mexico" in 1952; it's an oil in delicate shades of pink, divided geometrically into arches and squares and triangles. Developer Lew McGinnis bought all but two of the homes by 1980. The empty lot and mobile home sales in the lower right corner is now the site of Home Depot and dozens of other businesses. The Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital (now the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System) looking southwest from about Benson Highway and Park Ave. in 1954. Partly to mostly cloudy. Keep reading with a digital access subscription. Photo, Print, Drawing Postal Service even has an official abbreviation for the stravenue (that would be STRA), though mail carriers outside of Southern Arizona dont need to concern themselves with it. Construction on the Interstate 10 overpass at Congress Street (looking East) underway in 1958. Peter, Paul and Mary performed at the University of Arizona Main Auditorium April 30, 1983. From 1988-94 he was a photographer at the Tucson Citizen. Anthony Comello of Staten Island, New York, was charged with the March 2019 murder of Gambino crime family underboss Frank Cali.According to his defense attorney, Comello had become obsessed with QAnon theories, believing Cali was a member of "deep state" and, "because of his self-perceived status in QAnon, Mr. Comello became certain that he was enjoying the protection of President Trump . It featured a former CBS television executive, Marvin Duckler (who died at age 90 in Tucson on Jan. 24, 2018). 1 was once on the 100 block of South Sixth Avenue, across the street from the Pueblo Hotel and Apartments in the late 1960s. This database is a fully searchable text version of the newspaper for the following years: 1941-77. 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