Cortaro General Store on the northwest corner of Cortaro Road and I-10 in December, 1978. Def Leppard played at the Tucson Convention Center Dec. 26, 1992. The plaza is situated on 18 acres and has 18 tenants. Note the Ryan-Evans Drugs on the corner, at right, originally owned by the Martin family. Tucson Mall construction well-underway in 1981. The Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital (now the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System) looking southwest from about Benson Highway and Park Ave. in 1954. He had this home built in 1936. The Tucson Citizen 's name changed again in 1928 to the Tucson Daily Citizen and that title remained until 1977, when it returned to the Tucson Citizen for the remainder of its publication. Of course, Rockliffe might be a little biased. Under the updated rules, casitas can be as large as 10% of their lots total square footage. Tucson Citizen archives Search the online archives of the Tucson Citizen for free. 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 . 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. The Fox Theatre in downtown Tucson buildings taken June 1965. Traffic tie-ups like this one in June, 1962, happened several times a day on 22nd Street at the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks in Tucson. Get the latest obituaries delivered. Prior to 1915, it was a brewery. She had four children. It is now Williams Centre. Tucson Daily Citizen Newspaper Archives (1940-1977) Browse by Year 1940-1977 (38 years available). Photo, Print, Drawing The photo is looking toward the southeast. I can remember seeing Cherrybell Stravenue as a child and thinking that was all so strange, said Rockliffe, who retired in 2019 after 39 years as a land surveyor for Tucson Electric Power. The Palo Verde Overpass south of Tucson (Southern Pacific RR tracks), looking East on 36th Street, in 1956. "Man in the Box of Blocks" was produced at the "modern color studio" in KUAT-TV on the University of Arizona campus. It featured a former CBS television executive, Marvin Duckler (who died at age 90 in Tucson on Jan. 24, 2018). Paralleling the highway are the El Paso and Southwestern RR tracks. 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). Looking south on the Nogales Interstate Highway (now I-19) at the Ajo Way overpass on July 20, 1964. It's now the Aviation Parkway. The city council voted in November to continue the program and purchase two helicopters. As aerial as you can get in 1880: Looking west at the Plaza de Armas, Congregational Church and portions of the Presidio wall in central Tucson. 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). It was annexed by Oro Valley more than 30 years later. The building at left fronting Council Street was built by City Laundry in 1928 and ultimately became the main plant. Standard Oil gas station and Albert Steinfeld Hardware at 100 block of N. Stone in 1957. She followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s, and appearing on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley among others. Congress Street in Tucson, looking west from 6th Avenue in 1920. At lower right, the La Reforma Housing Project, which housed defense industry workers during WWII. The purpose of these missions was to aid in the colonization and exploration of land to the financial benefit of the Spanish Empire. This is a photo of North Scott Avenue, north of Congress Street. Thayer Manca Residential plans a $4.9 million renovation to the 424-unit Entrada Apartments. The four-block project cost $37,500. Tucson High School on 1st Ave. and 6th St, in 1946, with the gymnasium to the south, long before expansion projects led to the sprawling campus that it is today. Shifman's extended family members lived at the estate. Tucson homes popping up in 1965. The new Woolworth's store during preparations for opening in January, 1958. 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 TTT Truck Terminal at Craycroft Road and Benson Highway in Tucson in June, 1966. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Main Avenue runs through the center of the photo. The 10,000-foot store was the second Walgreens in Tucson. 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. By Summer 1962, completed freeway sections allowed travelers to go from Prince Road to 6th Ave. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. OPINION: Recalling happy times as a boy in Tucson, writer James Cohen remembers the Fox Theatre serials, a vacant dirt lot for a ball field and Sam Hughes neighborhood before parts were razed for McKale Center. It's anybody's guess where this is. The street that angles from left to right is South Osborne Ave. The Associated Press. The entire block is now the Tucson Electric Power headquarters. Johanna Eubank is a digital producer for the Arizona Daily Star and tucson.com. Some Arizona communities already prohibited texting while driving, but the new state law calls fora fine of up to $149 for a first-time offense. Looking West towards downtown Tucson along Broadway Road just East of Euclid in 1982. The former Westerner Hotel building on Stone Avenue and Broadway Boulevard looking Southeast. The Wells Fargo Bank, Pioneer Building and Pima County Public Defender's Office on Stone Avenue looking south near Alameda Street in downtown Tucson. Tucson himself, Roy P. Drachman, who reportedly dreamed it up in 1948 as part of Del Webbs Pueblo Gardens development near 22nd Street and present-day Kino Parkway. Partly cloudy skies. The most-important element of the half-hour show was to develop verbal skills in children. Speedway Blvd. Wednesday in Faith Church 3925 e. 5th St. Presbyterians ask old photos the Rev. The Tucson Fire Department's Station No. The countys Development Services Department says it was looking for a smarter way to set building-permit fees. The lights of businesses on Stone Avenue in downtown Tucson, looking south from Ventura Street in July, 1971. They were demolished to build J.C. Penney building. Temple of Music and Art, home of the Arizona Theatre Company, 330 S Scott Ave., in Tucson, Ariz. on January 23, 2020. A snapshot of the downtown Tucson in its original form in 1966, probably weeks away from the demolition of the first of hundreds of homes and businesses to make way for the Tucson Convention Center and city-county building complex. James "J.T." Also note the long wooden freight loading structure wooden water tower, long-since demolished. The new Palo Verde High School is at bottom right. Tucson's original airport in 1929. Note the roundhouse (now gone). Egg prices about to go up a bit more in Arizona due to new rules, Hold on teeny tiny freshwater jellyfish have been spotted in Sabino Canyon (?! Guentzel scored two goals, Casey DeSmith stopped 23 shots and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Arizona Coyotes 4-1 Sunday night to end a six-game losing streak. 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. Now its buried beneath the county courthouse, Rockliffe said. This is the parking lot at 35 E. Pennington, the site of the "new Woolworth Building" in May, 1956. Read Tucson Daily Citizen Newspaper Archives, Nov 23, 1968, p. 8 with family history and genealogy records from tucson, arizona 1940-1977. . Note the bypass on the Southern Pacific Railroad mainline. April 24, 2018. We have a Tucson history email newsletter! Downing, lead guitarist of Judas Priest plays at the Tucson Community Center Arena June 9, 1980. Craycroft Road is at right. He addressed members of the Tucson Democratic Party at a dinner on the 22nd, playing in part on the fact that it was Washington's Birthday: "Think back, if you will, to February 22, 1796. He later worked for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Pima County and the city of Tucson before launching a private practice with Frederick P. Cole, a former draftsman for the county. Become a member to access this feature. Grant Road is in the foreground. Partly to mostly cloudy. The caption on the photo reads, "Today, the University (of Arizona) has more buildings than vacant land." By 1961, it was reconstructed as Interstate 10. Fellow rock legends are paying tribute to Jeff Beck, the guitar virtuoso and musical innovator who died Tuesday. It was built in 1904 and demolished in 1984. 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. In front of that, the Pima Savings and Loan building. Looking east from "A" Mountain and Menlo Park along Congress St. into downtown Tucson in the mid-1970s. Interstate 10 (refered to as the "Tucson freeway" in newspapers at the time) under construction at Speedway Blvd. Or. The U.S. Ray Manley by Carroll From 1995-2004, he was director of photography at the East Valley Tribune in Mesa. The newly aligned South Main Ave swerved its way along a barren stretch of landscape on May 9, 1969. Steinfeld's was replaced by the Bank of America tower. 3 billion articles and photos. Dwight Yoakam performed at the Tucson Convention Center June 16, 1993. The city planning and zoning commission added the made-up word to Tucsons official street naming and numbering system in November 1948. Rick Wiley is the photo editor of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. Hotel Congress is at left. It was December, 1956, and downtown was exploding with development. Rod Stewart credited Beck with bringing him and Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood to the U.S. and that they never looked back after that. The Arizona Department of Transportation launched the newest contact-less service days before the expiration of the drivers license deferral period. From 1988-94 he was a photographer at the Tucson Citizen. Grant Road is in the foreground. The plan was to tow the gilder to 15,000 feet using a World War II-era B-25 bomber. The Pima County Public Works Center on the northwest corner of Stone Avenue and Alameda Street. This is Tucson. The land is now sports fields. Read Tucson Daily Citizen Newspaper Archives, Sep 30, 1961, p. 8 with family history and genealogy records from tucson, arizona 1940-1977. . The fairways are taking shape. He used to watch him work at his drafting table, and he later helped him draw a few subdivision plats before enrolling at the UA to become a registered professional land surveyor himself. Subsidence at the mine in San Manuel, ca. The GenealogyBank archives contain thousands of newspaper issues across the decades. From. From 1988-94 he was a photographer at the Tucson Citizen. Under construction: The Arizona Land Title building (foreground; now Pima County Transporation) and the down J.C. Penney Department Store (now Jcome Plaza in front of the main library). Note the tight cluster of businesses, hotels, theatres along Congress Street, where the county building complex now stands. She was married four times, including to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage. 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Pima County is home to 40 of them, mostly in mid-century neighborhoods built around Tucsons angled arteries Aviation Parkway, Benson Highway, the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and Interstate 10 east of I-19. Looking south on Kolb Road from 22nd Street, Tucson, in 1970. This Associated Press article and photo ran in the Arizona Daily Star July 25, 1980. In 1948, the Arizona State Highway Department approved the Tucson Controlled Access Highway, a bypass around downtown Tucson. Designer and pilot Tony Raciti looks out the window of the cockpit in his high speed glider, the Cherokee Queen, at Freeway Airport in Tucson in March, 1961. We have left turns from Michigan and potholes from the pits of hell, but one local traffic oddity is an Old Pueblo original. Steinfeld's Department Store (replaced by the Bank of America tower) was probably stocked for Christmas. The tape helps her get through moments when the thought of her daughter's murder is too much to handle. A hero pilot who shot down at least four Russian Migs in a classified dogfight at the height of the Cold War which saw his jet shot 263 times is to receive the Navy Cross. Many of the photos are courtesy of the Arizona Pioneer Historical Society (now Arizona Historical Society). It's a mile east of the original, built in 1954. The photo was taken with infrared film and a dark red filter on the lens to pierce the cloud cover. The Westerner Hotel, which opened in 1949, on the southeast corner of Stone Ave and Broadway Road in 1965. Activities Calendar; Gym Schedule; Information. Kress & Co. building Updated May 31, 2019 In March 1975 it was announced that the vacant S.H. Speedway Blvd. Old Nogales Highway near Ruby Road in July, 1956. This subdivision in the Tucson area's Avra Valley features streets named for historic firearms manufacturers, like Gatling. An impressive pool and shuffleball courts. His buildings often featured exposed . Northeast corner of 6th Ave. and Congress Street in Tucson in 1965, including Dee's Shoes, Nationwide Finance, Johnny Gibson's Gym Equipment and the Manhattan bar. Downtown Tucson (at left) from "A" Mountain in January, 1953. It's now the Aviation Parkway. The genre-bridging orchestra with vocalist China Forbes joins the Tucson Symphony Orchestra for one of the '23 Jazz Festival's biggest parties. The El Conquistador Hotel, lower right, in 1954. The famous lunch counter had seating for 53 and a stand-up sandwich bar. Spanish Trail winds through the center of this aerial photo of Tucson's eastside in 1970. Tucson Citizen Archives Software Unpack Photo Archives v.1..2014.74 Unpack Photo Archives is simply the fastest, easiest way to batch unpack Zip and RAR photo archives on your computer. The Regional Transportation Authority and city and county bond initiatives are changing that reputation, slowly but surely. There was not enough room to operate the controls after the pilot with parachute were crammed inside. WAYNE BAKER. It is now the main library plaza. This is the exterior of the Hydra store which at one time was the Dave Bloom and Sons store on Congress St and Sixth Avenue. Downtown Tucson looking south down Stone Avenue in 1956. Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson and Al Jardine in forefront of a song. . He taught me surveying, Rockliffe said of his dad, the likely son of the stravenue. It is currently used as the University of Arizona Downtown facility housing the College of Architecture Planning and Landscape Architecture. TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) A former actor in Western films and his wife have survived a fire that destroyed their Tucson-area home plus decades of Arizona movie history. Tucson andthe Santa Catalina Mountains from 17,500-feet, looking north front about the rodeo grounds (bottom of photo) in March, 1956. A high-rise office/retail building is planned for the site. 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