Time Machine 1976
University of Arizona head coach Fred Snowden during an Wildcats basketball game at McKale Center on March 6, 1976. Snowden took the Cats to the Elite Eight that year.
Arizona Daily Star files
University of Arizona head coach Fred Snowden and his Wildcats at McKale Center on March 6, 1976. The team, which made it to the Elite Eight that year in the NCAA Tournament, was led by players including Bob Elliott and Al Fleming.
Arizona Daily Star file photo
Three-time College World Series champion coach Jerry Kindall greeted friends and former players from his 1976 championship team during the University of Arizona's alumni day at Hi Corbett Field in 2016.
Photo by Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Today's Tucson Time Machine remembers 1976, the bicentennial year 50 years ago.
The Arizona Wildcats, under Coach Jerry Kindall, celebrated their first NCAA national championship in the 1976 College World Series in Omaha.
Players on the team included College World Series MVP Steve Powers, pitcher and designated hitter; All-American outfielder Dave Stegman; and homegrown catcher Ron Hassey.
Arizona Athletics photo
"A Star is Born," starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, was filmed in Southern Arizona in March 1976. Key scenes were shot at the Empire Ranch near Sonoita, the Pima County Courthouse, and the Tucson Community Center (now the Tucson Convention Center).
ABC photo via Arizona Daily Star archives
The letter from then-Mayor Lewis C. Murphy to the future citizens of Tucson, Arizona, typed on a sheet of copper, was buried in 1976 in a bicentennial time capsule on the grounds of the Tucson Museum of Art, and recovered in 2025 as part of the city's birthday celebration last year.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
James Coburn, right, during the 1975-76 filming of "The Last Hard Men" at Old Tucson.
Tucson Daily Citizen photo by Manuel Miera
Left to right: "Sunny" Jim Arnold, operations manager, and Bob English, KCUB program director, in 1976. In December 1976, Billboard magazine named Tucson's KCUB radio the No. 1 music station in the world.
Photo by Jose Galvez, Arizona Daily Star
Golfer Johnny Miller during the Tucson Open in 1976, which he won in a three-peat. He received $40,000.
Arizona Daily Star files
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