Photos: Another grab bag of archive photos from the Star and Citizen
A grab bag of archive prints from the files of the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen. It's a little bit of everything, from clowns to planes to buildings.
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Definitely not a safe place to walk: Park Avenue at the Southern Pacific RR tracks in 1952, looking north into the Lost Barrio in Tucson. Park now crosses under the railroad tracks and links with Euclid Ave.
Archive photos from Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen
A map of Tucson in 1962 overlaid onto a map of Tucson from 1912.
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The view from a water tower, probably at 3rd Ave. and Lee Street in Tucson, in 1939.
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Speedway Blvd. in 1977, named of one of ugliest streets in America, looking East from Alvernon Way.
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The Tucson Rodeo Queen appears at the new "ultramodern" Woolworth's Department Store in 1958.
Archive photos from Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen
Congress Street in Tucson, looking west from 6th Avenue in 1920.
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Downtown Tucson and the Santa Catalina Mountains in 1978.
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Congress Street in Tucson, looking east from Stone Avenue in June, 1965.
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Stone Avenue in Tucson, looking south toward the intersection at Congress Street (just south of the street car) in 1917.
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A Catholic priest blesses a Chevrolet at Salpointe High School in Tucson in the early 1960s.
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Happy the Clown fits a few ladies with balloon hats at the 1964 Pima County Fair in Tucson.
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Workers put the finishing touches on the Ronstadt Transit Center at Congress and 6th Ave. in March, 1991. The masonry facades were made from bricks salvaged from the buildings demolished to make way for the transit center. It will be changed once again: A planned hotel and retail complex will be built on the spot, with reconfigured transit center on the bottom floor.
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The businesses at Congress St. and Stone Ave. got an $80,000 facelift in 1982. $10,000 came from a U.S. Housing and Urban Development Grant. That didn't improve the shuttered Fox Theater next door.
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Gilbert Molina Sr., shown in 1964 outside his new Casa Molina Broadway restaurant at 2701 E. Broadway Road in Tucson. It was formerly Harmon's Cafe. This was Molina's second restaurant. The original opened at 6225 E. Speedway Blvd. in 1946.
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The Convair B-58 Hustler at Davis-Monthan AFB in 1958. The nuclear-capable supersonic strategic bomber made famous in the 1964 movie, "Fail Safe." The Air Force tested the planes until 1959. The first planes were officially delivered in 1964. The huge pod underneath carried one nuclear weapon and/or extra fuel. The planes were not stationed at D-M.
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Undated photo of Pinal Air Park north of Tucson, that shows McDonnell Douglas DC-8's and Boeing 707's, the first passenger jets in the United States.
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Driscoll Street (now Scott Ave.) between Pennington and Alameda in Tucson, looking south, in October, 1949. Reilly's Funeral Home (now pizza) is at right. The buildings at right are gone – it's now a parking lot. The original Federal courthouse in the distance.
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Driscoll Street (now Scott Ave.) between Pennington and Alameda in Tucson, looking north, in October, 1949. Reilly's Funeral Home (now pizza) is at right. The huge Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph local telephone exchange building is behind.
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Downtown Tucson, looking southeast from the Old Pima County Courthouse in 1949. The historic Valley Bank building towers in the background. At the time it was the tallest building in the city. The back of the Fox Theatre is in front of the Valley Bank building. At right the St. Augustine Cathedral.
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Pennington Street in Tucson, looking east from Stone Avenue in October, 1962. The Pioneer Hotel is at left. The facade on the Walgreens building at right was removed to the reveal the original, historic building. It's now home to the University of Arizona Downtown.
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The Phelps Dodge copper smelter in Morenci in 1984. In September, a replacement workforce voted to decertify the unions representing workers after a year-long strike and some violence in Clifton-Morenci. In August, 1983, the Arizona governor sent in 425 Department of Public Safety officers and 325 National Guardsmen to keep the peace.
Rick Wiley
Photo editor