El Con building demolished
The former Levy's store at El Con Mall is being demolished in order to make way for a Walmart store. It's another twist in a long history of a prized piece of midtown property.
Levy's Department store opening
Customers wait for the doors to open for the first time at the Levy's store at El Con Mall on Sept. 15, 1969.
Levy's Department store opening
Customers inside the new Levy's store at El Con Mall on Sept. 15, 1969.
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El Con Mall, with Levy's Department Store in the lower left, in 1978. Arizona Daily Star file photo
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The El Conquistador Hotel, bottom of picture, with adjacent El Con Mall construction in the late 1960s. Arizona Daily Star file
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Jeff Hamilton helps remove the Goldwaters sign from the store at El Con Mall. Dillards Department Stores officially took over Goldwaters' two remaining stores - at El Con Mall and Foothills Center. Arizona Daily Star file photo taken February 28, 1989.
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Bob Hope autographs copies of "The Last Christmas Show" at Levy's in Tucson. January 15, 1975. Star file photo.
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The stone trim around the old Robinsons May department store at El Con Mall, 3601 E. Broadway Blvd., spells the word "Levy's" repeatedly. Flip it over and it yields something else.
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Photo of the old Levy's building at the Southwest corner of El Con mall on July 20, 2011.
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Levy's first Tucson store, E. Congress St., 1931. Western Ways photo by Peter Balestrero.
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Postcard of El Conquistador Hotel, circa 1940s. Built in 1928 and long considered Tucson's grandest hotel, it was demolished in the mid-1960s to make way for the western expansion of El Con Mall on East Broadway. (Postcard courtesy of Steve Quintanilla).
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Undated photo of the El Conquistador Hotel, where El Con Mall now resides. The hotel opened in 1929 and fell to the wrecking ball gradually in the late 1960s. Arizona Daily Star file
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A tractor pushes debris from the interior as demolition on the interior of the old Macy's store at El Con Mall is being demolitioned to make way for a Walmart, Tuesday, June 19, 2012.
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As a loader moves around scrap metal from the interior of the old Macy's store at El Con Mall, Monday, June 18, 2012, crews spray it with water to keep down the dust as crews work to demolish the store to make way for a Walmart store.
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A loader moves around on a giant pile of scrap metal from the interior of the old Macy's store at El Con Mall, Monday, June 18, 2012, as crews work to demolish the store to make way for a Walmart store.
Levy's Department store
Customers wait for the doors to open for the first time at the Levy's store at El Con Mall on Sept. 15, 1969. The building was razed in 2012 and a Walmart was built in its place.
Backhoes trundled atop a pile of debris yesterday, scraping the last of the carpeting and interior fixtures from the former Macy's at El Con Mall. The storied structure - remembered fondly by many Tucsonans as Levy's - is slated for demolition today at noon.
Tucson’s oldest mall has new owners. El Con Mall was purchased for $81.7 million by a group fronted by St. Louis Rams owner Stanley Kroenke.
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