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Re: Tucson Films...

Cherlyn Strong
 

My husband says that "CC and Company" (1970) starring Joe Namath and
Ann-Margaret was filmed in Tucson. The movie is listed in another movie
database, that lists movies filmed in Tucson. There are Tucson scenes in
the movie, my husband says, but he saw it such a long time ago, he can't
recall if there are good street scenes. Netflix does have this movie listed
in their database, but I found so many reviews about what an awful film it
was, I am not sure if I want to spend the money to rent it. But, any Tucson
scenes to share might make it worth it.

There are so many movies listed below, that I think I might just add some of
them to my "Netflix Queue", if I find anything worthwhile in these movies,
I'll let you know.

I think you'll find some pretty good stuff while you watch "Alice Doesn't
Live Here Anymore". Some of the opening scenes "in New Jersey" were
actually filmed in Tucson. The Phoenix scenes were even filmed in Tucson.
It's been a few years since I watched it, and just didn't make it to the
post office box to pick it up yesterday. I am on my way to do that now -
there's a really good Chicago Store scene (filmed both inside and outside
the store, without dressing up the store, or changing the name). Priceless
footage.

-----Original Message-----
From: vanishingtucson@...
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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:24 PM
To: vanishingtucson@...
Subject: [vanishingtucson] Tucson Films...


Hi All,

Thanks Cherlyn for your post about "Alice...". I'll rent it next week
and see if I can capture an image from the DVD to post here.

There are hundreds of films that have been made in Tucson, but what
I'm looking for are scenes with actual recognizable Tucson street
locations, preferably from the 1970's, or earlier.

Below is a list of Tucson films, compiled from several sources.
If you know any of them have actual street scenes, please let me know.
Also add to the list if you can.

Later I'll post it in the files section.

Thanks, Carlos


Tucson Filmography by the Tucson Film Office, Metropolitan Tucson
Convention and Visitors Bureau, circa 10/2005

*Films with asterisk are listed by www.usa-movies.net as being Tucson
films, but were not included by the Tucson Film Office.

**Films with two asterisks were contributed by other sources.

films are listed in reverse chronological order, pre-1990

Desperado | 1989 | TV Movie
El Diablo | 1989
Hey Dude! | 1989 | TV Series
Law At Randado | 1989 | TV Movie
Major League | 1989
Young Riders | 1989 | TV Series
Jesse | 1988 | TV Movie
Red River | 1988
Stones for Ibarra | 1988 | TV Movie
Third Degree Burn | 1988
Can't Buy Me Love | 1987
Ghost Town | 1987 | TV Series
Gore Vidal's "Billy The Kid" | 1987 | TV Movie
Laughing Dead | 1987
Nobody Likes It Hot | 1987
Poker Alice | 1987 | TV
Unce Upon A Texas Train | 1987 | TV Movie
Walker | 1987
Buckeye | 1986
Desert Bloom | 1986
Love Among Thieves | 1986 | TV Movie
Stagecoach | 1986
Three Amigos! | 1986
The Wrath | 1986
Dream West | 1985 | TV Mini-Series
Jackals | 1985
Webster | 1985 | TV Series
Bless All The Dear Children | 1983 | TV Movie
Calamity Jane | 1983 | TV Movie
Cannonball Run, Part II | 1983
Flashpoint | 1984
Highway To Heaven 1984 | TV Series
Kidco | 1984
Little Arliss | 1984 | TV Movie
Revenge of The Nerds | 1984
Natas, The Reflection | 1983
September Gun | 1983 | TV Movie
The Cannonball Run | 1981
Father Murphy | 1981 | TV Series
The Wife of Wyatt Earp | 1981 | TV Movie
Tom Horn (1980)*
Death Valley | 1980
Hart To Hart | 1980 | TV Series
High Noon, Part II | 1980 | TV Movie
The Ghost Dance | 1980
More Wild, Wild West | 1980 | TV Movie
That's Incredible | 1980 | TV Series

Frisco Kid | 1979
The Gambler | 1979 | TV Movie
I, Tom Horn | 1979
The Villain | 1979
It Lives Again | 1978
The New Maverick | 1978 | TV Movie
The Sacketts | 1978 | TV Mini-Series
Go West Young Girl | 1977 | TV Movie
How The West Was Won | 1977 | TV Series
The Incredibile Race | 1977 | TV Movie
Wild & Wooly | 1977 | TV Movie
A Star Is Born | 1976
Another Man, Another Woman | 1976
Hawmps! | 1976
The Last Hard Men | 1976
The Most Wanted Women | 1976 | TV Movie
The Outlaw Josie Wales | 1976
Tales of The Nunundaga | 1976
Katherine (An American Terrorist) | 1975 | TV Movie
Restless Sleep | 1975
The Young Pioneers | 1975
The Abduction of St. Anne | 1974 | TV Movie
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974
Backtrack | 1974 | TV Movie
Death Wish | 1974
The Gun And The Pulpit | 1974
The Hanged Man | 1974
Mark of Zorro | 1974 | TV Movie
Petrocelli | 1974 | TV Series
Posse | 1974
A Knife For The Ladies | 1973
Lost Horizon | 1973
Pray For The Wildcats | 1973 | TV Movie
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing | 1973
Trial of Billy Jack | 1973
Gunsmoke | 1972
The Life And Times of Judge Roy Bean | 1972
Night of the Lepus | 1972
Pocket Money | 1972
Soul of Nigger Charley | 1972
The Animals | 1971
Ballad of The Old West | 1971 TV Series
Death of A Gunfighter | 1971
Dirty Little Billy | 1971
Joe Kidd | 1971
The Legend of Nigger Charley | 1971
A Ton of Grass Goes To Pot | 1971
Dirty Dingus Magee | 1970
Rio Lobo | 1970
Scandalous John | 1970
The Wild Rovers | 1970
Yuma | 1970 | TV Movie

Again A Love Story | 1969
Monte Walsh | 1969
The Mountain Men | 1969
Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? | 1969
Lonesome Cowboys (1968)*
Heaven With A Gun | 1968
Hell's Belles | 1968
The Mini-Skirt Mob | 1968
Romeo & Juliet | 1968
The Young Animals | 1968
Young Billy Young | 1968
Hombre (1967)*
Dundee And The Culhane | 1967 | TV Series
El Dorado | 1967
The High Chaparral | 1967 | TV Series
Tobruk | 1967
The Way West | 1967
Bonanza | 1966 | TV Series
Death Valley Days | 1966 | TV Series
The Last Challenge | 1966
The Long Ride Home | 1966
Return of The Gunfighter | 1966
And We Shall Die | 1965
Arizona Raiders | 1965
The Great Sioux Massacre | 1964
The Outrage | 1964
The Reward | 1964
The Lilies of the Field | 1963
McLintock! | 1963
Have Gun Will Travel | 1962 | TV Series
How The West Was Won | 1962
Young Guns of Texas | 1962
A Thunder of Drums | 1961
The Deadly Companions | 1961

Bonanza | 1959 | TV Series
Cimmaron | 1959
The Incredible Petrified World | 1959
Rio Bravo | 1959
Badlanders | 1958
Buchanan Rides Alone | 1958
Last Train From Gun Hill | 1958
3:10 To Yuma | 1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957
The Guns Of Ft. Petticoat | 1957
Gunsight Ridge | 1957
The Lone Ranger and The Lost City of Gold | 1957 | TV Movie
Wagon Train | 1957 | TV Series ^M
A Kiss Before Dying | 1956 ^M
The Broken Star | 1956
The Proud Ones | 1956
Reprisal | 1956
Oklahoma | 1955
Backlash | 1955
Walk The Proud Land | 1955
Roaming Through Arizona | 1954
Strange Lady In Town | 1954
Ten Wanted Men | 1954
The Violent Men | 1954
Arena | 1953
The Last Outpost | 1951
Broken Arrow | 1950
Winchester '73 | 1950

Red River (1948)*
Unusual Occupations (1947)*
The Last Roundup | 1947
Three Who Were Throughbreds | 1946
The Bells Of St. Mary | 1945
Roaming Through Arizona (1944)*
Arizona | 1940

The Mysterious Rider (1938)*

Ridin' Wild | 1925
The Mine With The Iron Door 1924, 1936**







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Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

George Cohn
 

Bob Puariea wrote:

Hi George,It's refreshing to read your comments on
Vanishing Tucson.
I came to Tucson in 1964 to attend the U of A. I was born in Arizona and have lived my whole life here. I've spent the last 41 years in Tucson, including my formative late teens and early twenties so yes, I loved Tucson. But sadly it's just becoming another faceless metropolis over run with politics and developers out to pave over the last mesquite and cactus or cover it with another car dealership.

I know growth is inevitable but I truly miss the heritage that was here when I arrived.

In 1964, city limits on the east ended at Swan and 5th street turned into a dirt road. I remember another fellow and I riding our motorbikes down 5th street to Wilmot and pulling up in front of St. Joseph's Hospital which stood in the middle of nowhere. I commented to him, "That's a stupid place to put a hospital, out in the middle of nowhere." Now that's probably close to being the center of town. El Con Mall was just a small collection of stores and Park Place consisted of a Sears store and a Furrs Cafeteria. Tucson Mall was still a ranch with the Wetmore swimming pool.

I've seen the Saveco stores, Globe stores, Wood Brothers Lumber, Payless Cashways, and Sutherlands lumber go as well. All the local drug stores like Defender Drug, Ryan Evans, later Revco, driven out by the chains. And the construction and bankruptcy of the Woolco on 22nd near Alvernon where the Fry's is now.

Lived in that neighborhood and we used to ride our motorcycles in the desert north of the Cactus drive-in (DeAnza) when there was no shopping center there. I lived near Alvernon and El Dorado the night the plane crashed on the Food Giant at 29th street killing 3 people in the store and the teenager in the house behind it.

A lot has come and gone over the last 41 years but it just doesn't seem to be much like home anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old? I'm trying to get the lady I talked to today to bring in the family photo album so I can scan some pictures. Her family has lived in Tucson since the early '20's and she says there are a lot of photos of Tucson of the past in there. If I succeed, I'll post them to the photo album on Yahoo.

George Cohn
Tucson AZ
Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

Bob Puariea
 

Hi George,It's refreshing to read your comments on
Vanishing Tucson.Ironically in the 70's I sold a home
to the one that was involved in Skate Country,and the
one you're referring to was at or is at Pantano and
Golflinks.Persons name was Steve Kerr and him and his
wife were from Iowa.They put up 2 Skate Countries.He
was a great golfer and Tennis player.Bob

--- George Cohn <gwcohn@...> wrote:

Bob Puariea wrote:

It was all of the places you listed and it was a
roller skating ring,I used to take my kids there
I think you folks are off by a block. The roller
rink was at 22nd and
Swan and was called Skate Country. When the company
I worked for owned
the building in the early '80's, we remodeled and I
remember joking
about how all the employees should wear skates. The
floor was hardwood
laid over oak 2x8's on top of a sand base. It
moved somewhere out
east, maybe Golf Links?

According to an elderly lady at work that I asked
today, Tucson
Rollerama is now Skate Country on Oracle. She said
she used to go there
often as a child and also swam in the Wetmore pool
which is where Tucson
Mall is today.

Standard Brands was where Annabelles Attic is today
and was there for
most of the '70's and '80's as I used to shop there.
They also had a
store on Broadway near the Barrazon Expressway and a
store on North
Oracle during the latter '80's before they closed.
I went to all three
locations to get enough of a certain color of floor
tile to do my
workshop before they closed.

George Cohn
Tucson AZ



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Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

George Cohn
 

Bob Puariea wrote:

It was all of the places you listed and it was a
roller skating ring,I used to take my kids there
I think you folks are off by a block. The roller rink was at 22nd and Swan and was called Skate Country. When the company I worked for owned the building in the early '80's, we remodeled and I remember joking about how all the employees should wear skates. The floor was hardwood laid over oak 2x8's on top of a sand base. It moved somewhere out east, maybe Golf Links?

According to an elderly lady at work that I asked today, Tucson Rollerama is now Skate Country on Oracle. She said she used to go there often as a child and also swam in the Wetmore pool which is where Tucson Mall is today.

Standard Brands was where Annabelles Attic is today and was there for most of the '70's and '80's as I used to shop there. They also had a store on Broadway near the Barrazon Expressway and a store on North Oracle during the latter '80's before they closed. I went to all three locations to get enough of a certain color of floor tile to do my workshop before they closed.

George Cohn
Tucson AZ
Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

 

In a message dated 10/14/2005 7:45:08 PM US Mountain Standard Time, gwcohn@... writes:


A lot has come and gone over the last 41 years but it just doesn't seem
to be much like home anymore. ?Maybe I'm just getting old? ?
I know what you mean George, ?in the thirty-seven years we've been here so much has changed. I know that the city of my childhood no matter where I grew up would change some, but my goodness, the changes this city has seen is phenomenal.
My grandparents who moved to Tucson in 1949 had seen a vastly different city to the Tucson I was introduced to.
What changes will my children and grandchildren see? I hope there will be more than a few meager glimpses of what has been before them.

B.J.
Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

 

Skate Country North on Oracle was new in the early 70's when my sister and I skated there. They apparently relocated to 2700 N. Stone Ave. when they built the Tucson Mall. Within the past year and a half or two they moved again, this time to 3970 W Ina Road and the new name was Arizona Skate Center. Sadly, they closed their doors on August 30th. The only roller rink I know of in operation at this time is Skate Country East on 7980 E 22ND ST. They've been in this location for 32 years now.
As far as the roller rink that my husband and I have believed is now occupied by Annabelle's attic, well, hopefully that mystery can be solved soon! I don't remember its name being Skate Country then. It's been about thirty-one years since I skated there and hubby says it has been about 31 or 32 years since he skated there, but the opening of Skate Country East about coincides with the last time we used the older rink as teens. I will try to do some research on it.
Thanks Bob and George for sharing your input on this.

B.J.





Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

Bob Puariea
 

It was all of the places you listed and it was a
roller skating ring,I used to take my kids there

--- buffalogal1959@... wrote:

How strange, maybe my memory is failing me! My
husband was quite sure it had
also been the location where he and his cousins and
a group of friends skated
there in 1972-74 time period. I called Annabelle's
attic and she too said it
had been a Standard Brands Paint and prior to that
had been a Carpeteria. I
guess this has become a little bit of a personal
mystery to me now, if this
wasn't the skating rink location of my youth I
wonder where it actually was!

B.J.




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I called the library infoline and was told they have an archive of old
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B.J.
Tucson Films...

 

Hi All,

Thanks Cherlyn for your post about "Alice...". I'll rent it next week
and see if I can capture an image from the DVD to post here.

There are hundreds of films that have been made in Tucson, but what
I'm looking for are scenes with actual recognizable Tucson street
locations, preferably from the 1970's, or earlier.

Below is a list of Tucson films, compiled from several sources.
If you know any of them have actual street scenes, please let me know.
Also add to the list if you can.

Later I'll post it in the files section.

Thanks, Carlos


Tucson Filmography by the Tucson Film Office, Metropolitan Tucson
Convention and Visitors Bureau, circa 10/2005

*Films with asterisk are listed by www.usa-movies.net as being Tucson
films, but were not included by the Tucson Film Office.

**Films with two asterisks were contributed by other sources.

films are listed in reverse chronological order, pre-1990

Desperado | 1989 | TV Movie
El Diablo | 1989
Hey Dude! | 1989 | TV Series
Law At Randado | 1989 | TV Movie
Major League | 1989
Young Riders | 1989 | TV Series
Jesse | 1988 | TV Movie
Red River | 1988
Stones for Ibarra | 1988 | TV Movie
Third Degree Burn | 1988
Can't Buy Me Love | 1987
Ghost Town | 1987 | TV Series
Gore Vidal's "Billy The Kid" | 1987 | TV Movie
Laughing Dead | 1987
Nobody Likes It Hot | 1987
Poker Alice | 1987 | TV
Unce Upon A Texas Train | 1987 | TV Movie
Walker | 1987
Buckeye | 1986
Desert Bloom | 1986
Love Among Thieves | 1986 | TV Movie
Stagecoach | 1986
Three Amigos! | 1986
The Wrath | 1986
Dream West | 1985 | TV Mini-Series
Jackals | 1985
Webster | 1985 | TV Series
Bless All The Dear Children | 1983 | TV Movie
Calamity Jane | 1983 | TV Movie
Cannonball Run, Part II | 1983
Flashpoint | 1984
Highway To Heaven 1984 | TV Series
Kidco | 1984
Little Arliss | 1984 | TV Movie
Revenge of The Nerds | 1984
Natas, The Reflection | 1983
September Gun | 1983 | TV Movie
The Cannonball Run | 1981
Father Murphy | 1981 | TV Series
The Wife of Wyatt Earp | 1981 | TV Movie
Tom Horn (1980)*
Death Valley | 1980
Hart To Hart | 1980 | TV Series
High Noon, Part II | 1980 | TV Movie
The Ghost Dance | 1980
More Wild, Wild West | 1980 | TV Movie
That's Incredible | 1980 | TV Series

Frisco Kid | 1979
The Gambler | 1979 | TV Movie
I, Tom Horn | 1979
The Villain | 1979
It Lives Again | 1978
The New Maverick | 1978 | TV Movie
The Sacketts | 1978 | TV Mini-Series
Go West Young Girl | 1977 | TV Movie
How The West Was Won | 1977 | TV Series
The Incredibile Race | 1977 | TV Movie
Wild & Wooly | 1977 | TV Movie
A Star Is Born | 1976
Another Man, Another Woman | 1976
Hawmps! | 1976
The Last Hard Men | 1976
The Most Wanted Women | 1976 | TV Movie
The Outlaw Josie Wales | 1976
Tales of The Nunundaga | 1976
Katherine (An American Terrorist) | 1975 | TV Movie
Restless Sleep | 1975
The Young Pioneers | 1975
The Abduction of St. Anne | 1974 | TV Movie
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 1974
Backtrack | 1974 | TV Movie
Death Wish | 1974
The Gun And The Pulpit | 1974
The Hanged Man | 1974
Mark of Zorro | 1974 | TV Movie
Petrocelli | 1974 | TV Series
Posse | 1974
A Knife For The Ladies | 1973
Lost Horizon | 1973
Pray For The Wildcats | 1973 | TV Movie
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing | 1973
Trial of Billy Jack | 1973
Gunsmoke | 1972
The Life And Times of Judge Roy Bean | 1972
Night of the Lepus | 1972
Pocket Money | 1972
Soul of Nigger Charley | 1972
The Animals | 1971
Ballad of The Old West | 1971 TV Series
Death of A Gunfighter | 1971
Dirty Little Billy | 1971
Joe Kidd | 1971
The Legend of Nigger Charley | 1971
A Ton of Grass Goes To Pot | 1971
Dirty Dingus Magee | 1970
Rio Lobo | 1970
Scandalous John | 1970
The Wild Rovers | 1970
Yuma | 1970 | TV Movie

Again A Love Story | 1969
Monte Walsh | 1969
The Mountain Men | 1969
Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? | 1969
Lonesome Cowboys (1968)*
Heaven With A Gun | 1968
Hell's Belles | 1968
The Mini-Skirt Mob | 1968
Romeo & Juliet | 1968
The Young Animals | 1968
Young Billy Young | 1968
Hombre (1967)*
Dundee And The Culhane | 1967 | TV Series
El Dorado | 1967
The High Chaparral | 1967 | TV Series
Tobruk | 1967
The Way West | 1967
Bonanza | 1966 | TV Series
Death Valley Days | 1966 | TV Series
The Last Challenge | 1966
The Long Ride Home | 1966
Return of The Gunfighter | 1966
And We Shall Die | 1965
Arizona Raiders | 1965
The Great Sioux Massacre | 1964
The Outrage | 1964
The Reward | 1964
The Lilies of the Field | 1963
McLintock! | 1963
Have Gun Will Travel | 1962 | TV Series
How The West Was Won | 1962
Young Guns of Texas | 1962
A Thunder of Drums | 1961
The Deadly Companions | 1961

Bonanza | 1959 | TV Series
Cimmaron | 1959
The Incredible Petrified World | 1959
Rio Bravo | 1959
Badlanders | 1958
Buchanan Rides Alone | 1958
Last Train From Gun Hill | 1958
3:10 To Yuma | 1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957
The Guns Of Ft. Petticoat | 1957
Gunsight Ridge | 1957
The Lone Ranger and The Lost City of Gold | 1957 | TV Movie
Wagon Train | 1957 | TV Series ^M
A Kiss Before Dying | 1956 ^M
The Broken Star | 1956
The Proud Ones | 1956
Reprisal | 1956
Oklahoma | 1955
Backlash | 1955
Walk The Proud Land | 1955
Roaming Through Arizona | 1954
Strange Lady In Town | 1954
Ten Wanted Men | 1954
The Violent Men | 1954
Arena | 1953
The Last Outpost | 1951
Broken Arrow | 1950
Winchester '73 | 1950

Red River (1948)*
Unusual Occupations (1947)*
The Last Roundup | 1947
Three Who Were Throughbreds | 1946
The Bells Of St. Mary | 1945
Roaming Through Arizona (1944)*
Arizona | 1940

The Mysterious Rider (1938)*

Ridin' Wild | 1925
The Mine With The Iron Door 1924, 1936**
Re: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Bob Puariea
 

Hi again,Was there or was there not a bowling alley in
Hidden Valley that burned shortly after it opened???
--- George Cohn <gwcohn@...> wrote:

From: Cherlyn Strong

I have been yearning for the Tucson I knew and
loved in the 70's.

I should be receiving "Alice Doesn't Live Here
Anymore" from Netflix today,
which I have seen a few times over the years. I'm
sure most of you have seen
it, too. One of my favorite lines in the movie
comes from a very young Jodie
Foster, when she says "Tucson's the WEIRD capital
of the world...WEIRD!!!"

Probably because in 1966, Life magazine published a
front cover article on Charles Schmidt, "The Pied
Piper of Tucson". A wannabe Charles Manson type who
had his "gang" kill Gretchen and Wendy Fritz, a
local physicians daughters.

The Life magazine cover showed a telscopic shot of
Speedway that made it look like seedy bars and
billboards every few feet. More about the story
here:

Tucson during the '60's was also the "retirement"
home to such notables as Joe Bonanno and Salvatore
"Lucky" Luciano, reputed mafia bosses. There were a
lot of businesses that mysteriously blew up in the
middle of the noght during that time period.

George Cohn




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Re: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

George Cohn
 

From: Cherlyn Strong

I have been yearning for the Tucson I knew and loved in the 70's.

I should be receiving "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" from Netflix today,
which I have seen a few times over the years. I'm sure most of you have seen
it, too. One of my favorite lines in the movie comes from a very young Jodie
Foster, when she says "Tucson's the WEIRD capital of the world...WEIRD!!!"
Probably because in 1966, Life magazine published a front cover article on Charles Schmidt, "The Pied Piper of Tucson". A wannabe Charles Manson type who had his "gang" kill Gretchen and Wendy Fritz, a local physicians daughters.

The Life magazine cover showed a telscopic shot of Speedway that made it look like seedy bars and billboards every few feet. More about the story here:

Tucson during the '60's was also the "retirement" home to such notables as Joe Bonanno and Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano, reputed mafia bosses. There were a lot of businesses that mysteriously blew up in the middle of the noght during that time period.

George Cohn
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Cherlyn Strong
 

I have been yearning for the Tucson I knew and loved in the 70's.

I should be receiving "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" from Netflix today,
which I have seen a few times over the years. I'm sure most of you have seen
it, too. One of my favorite lines in the movie comes from a very young Jodie
Foster, when she says "Tucson's the WEIRD capital of the world...WEIRD!!!"

If you have not seen this movie, check it out. It is beautifully filmed by
Martin Scorsese. "Alice" is played by the marvelous Ellen Burstyn. Watch
the movie twice. The first time, just for the sake of a GREAT movie. The
second time, check out all the Tucson landmarks featured in the movie.
Re: another skating mystery: where was Tucson Roller Rink?

George Cohn
 

From: Jim

There was also a roller skating rink on Speedway and Belvedere right
where Pep Boys is now.. an aside, next to it was the only Orange
Julius in town
There was also an Orange Julius on Speedway near the university in the '60's when I went to the U of A. It was in the same strip mall as Rubitoms because I bought a lot of 45's there!

Don't remember the skating rink but there was one at the corner of 22nd and Swan. It's the Dependable Health building now. The company I used to work for owned it at one time and back in the warehouse area, they still had the hardwood floors with the lines painted on them.

George Cohn
Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

 

Annebells Attic in the 70s was a Standard Brands paint store selling
paint, flooring wall paper and artist supplies... before the the lot
was Wilmont Campers-"Little dealer Little Prices."

--- In vanishingtucson@..., buffalogal1959@c... wrote:

Hi, I haven't posted before but have been here a month or so. I've
been in
Tucson since age nine when we moved here in 1968, this city has
sure changed a
lot since then.
Back in 1975 there was a skating rink that I loved to go to, it is
now
Annabelle's attic. Did anyone else ever skate there?
Changing the subject now, I remember going to the Prince drive-in
with my
parents in 1969 or 1970, it was the first time we ever went to a
drive-in, they
enjoyed watching t.v. in the comfort of the living room. My dad was
a big John
Wayne fan and the movie playing was True Grit, I guess he just
couldn't wait
that one out till it came on t.v.!


B.J.
Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

 

How strange, maybe my memory is failing me! My husband was quite sure it had also been the location where he and his cousins and a group of friends skated there in 1972-74 time period. I called Annabelle's attic and she too said it had been a Standard Brands Paint and prior to that had been a Carpeteria. I guess this has become a little bit of a personal mystery to me now, if this wasn't the skating rink location of my youth I wonder where it actually was!

B.J.
Re: another skating mystery: where was Tucson Roller Rink?

 

There was also a roller skating rink on Speedway and Belvedere right
where Pep Boys is now.. an aside, next to it was the only Orange
Julius in town

--- In vanishingtucson@..., "Carol Strong" <aces225@f...>
wrote:

The roller rink I went to was on 6th Street. Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: mistercopacetic
To: vanishingtucson@...
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:51 PM
Subject: [vanishingtucson] another skating mystery: where was
Tucson Roller Rink?


Hi All,

Thanks to Carol for the wonderful story. Could the Tucson Roller
Rink
be the one mentioned on Sixth or the one on Speedway?

Just created a skating rink album in the photos section. I'd love
to
find a picture of the Buckskin Bar and Arena (!).

Congrats to Gretchen and Thelma for solving the Sunset Rollerama
mystery.

Welcome to new member George. He has a fantastic website called
at:

www.driveinmemories.com

George, did you see the current for-sale listing for the DeAnza at
Loopnet? It's at:

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Here's the growing list of skating rinks (ice and roller) so far:


Buckskin Bar and Arena where Tucson Mall sits (thanks Kitty)

Iceland ice rink was east on speedway past Craycroft (thanks
Kitty)

M & S 316 S. Main see Arnolds business directory 1948

Pastime Park 3800 N. Oracle (at Pastime Road) see pic, see
Arnolds
business directory 1948

Skate Country north side where Bally's and American Home
Furnishings is. (thanks Kitty)

Sunset Rollerama
Thelma: 22nd and Swan right by where Bargain Center Furniture is
now
Gretchen: The Roller rink is currently Dependable Health
Services. If
you go behind the showroom to the offices, the old wood floors are
still there from the rink. The address is 1120 S. Swan.

Tucson Roller Rink









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DeAnza Drive-In Sale

George Cohn
 

OK, Here's the scoop from the manager of one of the other DeAnza drive-ins:

George,

I've spoken to our upper management regarding the DeAnza. Yes, the property is for sale; it always has been. DeAnza decided to invest money into the property for many reasons, most notably because it will take quite some time to find a qualified buyer and get the sale through escrow.

In the meantime, DeAnza Land and Leisure is dedicated to making the drive-in experience as wonderful as possible for our fans in Tucson.

Jeff

Yeah, right up until the minute they turn us away at the gate and bulldoze the place. Kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

George Cohn
Tucson AZ
Re: What's legal?

 

Hi Carol,

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think posting a few pictures would be
illegal. Especially since this is a free group, and Mr. Scheaffer's
book is no longer in print. Crediting the source is usually sufficient.

I also have "Jack Scheaffer's Tucson 1945 to 1965", but haven't had
time to scan any of the photos yet.

Carol, if you want to scan any pictures and e-mail them to me, I'll be
glad to post them for you. Thanks for your efforts.

Carlos
mistercopacetic at yahoo dot com


--- In vanishingtucson@..., "Carol Strong" <aces225@f...>
wrote:

I have a book published in 1985 with pictures taken in Tucson by
Jack Sheaffer, a well known photographer who, as he wrote, "used his
camera to capture clematis and castophophes, celebrates and
ceremonies, presidents and princesses, and hundreds of other topics
for readers of Tucson's morning newspaper, The Arizona Daily Star..

I know the Vanished Tucson members would enjoy the many "as how it
was then", but I'm not sure it it's permitted to copy such work
without the permission of the person or the newspaper he worked for.

Does anyone have - or can get that information. I wouldn't like to
go to jail or pay a huge fine for copying someone else's work without
permission. . Carol Strong

Any attorneys in this group?
Re: Mystery Picture - was the Sunset Rollerama in Tucson?

 

Hi, I haven't posted before but have been here a month or so. I've been in Tucson since age nine when we moved here in 1968, this city has sure changed a lot since then.
Back in 1975 there was a skating rink that I loved to go to, it is now Annabelle's attic. Did anyone else ever skate there?
Changing the subject now, I remember going to the Prince drive-in with my parents in 1969 or 1970, it was the first time we ever went to a drive-in, they enjoyed watching t.v. in the comfort of the living room. My dad was a big John Wayne fan and the movie playing was True Grit, ?I guess he just couldn't wait that one out till it came on t.v.!


B.J.
Re: alert - De Anza Drive-In Theater is FOR SALE...

Bjay
 

That's a great website you have! I think there is access off 22nd now...but you have to drive through either the Jack-in-the-Box or the Walgreens. There is now a bridge you can drive over to the DeAnza from those businesses.

I will hope and pray the theater could be saved (or moved?). I've talked to the manager, and have suggested they try to make money in the daytime with things like fleamarkets or farmer's markets, but they say it's not possible. Don't know why. I've also tried to rent parts of the theaters for private parties, but again, they've been reluctant and slow and I gave up trying to arrange them.

I wish you lots of luck and success in saving it!!

Bjay

George Cohn wrote

I was talking to Mike Cecil, the manager of the DeAnza a couple of weeks
ago, and he said that The DeAnza Corp.had bought the property North of
the DeAnza to offset some capital gains from some other property they
had sold in Tucson.

Some folks may not remember but the property on the corner of 22nd and
Pantano (I think) that used to be a Payless Cashways was at one time
owned by SERO Amusements AKA the DeAnza Corp. They had planned to build
a drive-in there but the zoning was rejected because the City would not
approve the changes. Also, there was a planned drive-in where Park
Place now stands but it too, was rejected due to neighbors objections
over the zoning in the mid '50's.

Apparently, the SERO folks, a name formed of the initials of Charles
Skouras, Jr., Clauude Ezell, Michael Rosenberg and William Oldknow,
controlled 125 theaters in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, California, and
Hawaii during the '70's.

William Oldknow, the patriarch and the "O" in SERO, was the father to
the lady who apparently now owns the DeAnza. I had heard that she
wanted to run the remaining theaters at drive-ins but apparently money
speaks louder than tradition or nostalgia, according to one source that
knows her and responded to me privately this afternoon.

The DeAnza opened on March 24, 1951 as the single screen Cactus, under
the ownership of Hugh Downs and Wesley Becker. It became the DeAnza 3
in 1977 and they added the fourth screen in 1978 to compete with the
Syufy Tucson 4 which had added a 5th screen the same year. It's now 54
years old. The Apache was also upgraded to a triple in 1977. I was
hoping with the recent remodels, the DeAnza would hang around for a
while longer.

Anyone interested in forming a non-profit group to try to buy and save
it? ;-)

In 1999, Jim Gobel who owns the Cinderella Twin in Aurora Colorado and
the Starlite Twin in Kansas City, tried to buy it but the financing fell
through. The asking price at that time was $1.3 million. Guess the
escalating land prices have doubled that figure in 6 years. A number of
folks have tried to buy it since but the deal always seemed to fall
through at the last minute.A couple of issues always affect the sale. There is no access off of 22nd street and the wash and Joquin (I think)
boulevard separates the properties.

I love drive-ins and Tucson once hosted 12 screens at the same time. They were the Apache, Fiesta, Miracle Mile (Biltmore Motor-Vue), Cactus,
Rodeo, Prince, Midway, 22nd Street, and in January 1974, the Tucson 4,
later 5, owned by the Syufy chain. All but the Miracle Mile and the
Tucson 5 were eventually owned by the SERO (DeAnza) chain by the late '70's.

I have a personal website where I have been collecting information over
the years from the newspaper archives called

With the modern technological advances in DVD and home theater, I can
see the drive-ins might be an endangered species but at this time, over
500 screens still exist out of the 5,300 that prospered in the mid-50's.

I miss Tucson of the '60's when I first came here to attend college. It's just another faceless corporate entity now....

George Cohn
Tucson AZ


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