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Re: Drug Stores
Hi Deb,
I know that the store on Stone & University is closed and was vacant as of early 2006, and maybe the counter is still there in the store. Do? you remember the Graduate that was about a block south of the store? It was a gay bar, and someone had spray painted "Love Your Fellow Man" across the side. They never took the graffiti down. Deb Rollins wrote: Posted by: "joebuck95@..."
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The Lighthouse YMCA
Jim Buchanan
I was a member of a group called the "Indian Guides" in the mid 1950's
at the Lighthouse YMCA. It was a father/son group where we were given names like "Big and Little Eagle Feather". No girls were allowed. (after all it was held at the Young Men's Christian Association) I also learned to shoot during one of the summer programs at the Lighthouse using real 22 cal. rifles. Let's see either one of these activities being allowed by the people who run Tucson today. I doubt if even the name YMCA would be allowed My father built a lot of the locker room racks and gates for the swimming pool facility. Jim Buchanan |
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Drug stores
tricksec65
I worked at "Swan Drug" which was on the 4700 block of east speedway
as a delivery boy in 1958. It was my second job and I drove a 1949 ford with a logo on the side. I once made an emergency delivery just before closing to a hotel on the west side. It was pretty scary for a 16yo as it was for the wife of an infamous mob boss that just got out of prison. |
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Re: Hello
Hi all. I'm new to this group having discovered it via
a newspaper article that I read a week or so ago. I was born and raised in Tucson and have lived here all my life except for the three years I was in the Marine Corps. I have enjoyed seeing some of the pictures of Tucson's past and a lot of the articles that have been posted. I grew up in my grandparents house, built by them in the barrio known as El Hoyo. Unfortunetley a city program known as Urban Renewal forced my grandparents to sell the house they had lived in since the 20's.If you head west past the El Minuto Cafe, you will drive over the site where my grandparents house stood. It was just bad luck that their house was in the last block of houses to be demolished. Someone mentioned Arts Cooney Island hot dogs and burgers, Yes I remember Arts, though not the rest of the name, and I also remember Jakes and Kippys 7/$1.00 mega burgers joint. I think Deb mentioned Pats chile dogs on the southside.Well they still serve their delicious chile dogs at Pats on Grande Ave. They are always packed. Sorry Deb, I think they are better than that other place? Anyway, good to hear from you all and I am looking foward to future comments and pictures. ---------------------------------------------------- Armando- I too am new here and I enjoy reading all the postings and referrals to other websites. We lived on the southwest side of town for over 40 yrs and both our sons graduated from Pueblo High School. The openess and beauty led us to that part of town but its changed too much with expansion and traffic problems these days. My husband was a Marine, getting wounded in Viet Nam and our sons both joined the Corps right after graduating. The older one had to medically discharge after 16 yrs due to some wounds he recieved in Iraq a few years ago, he is fine and works a federal job, the other son is in his 10th year of service and is now at Camp Pendleton getting reading for his second deployment in a few months. Its hard worrying so much but we are very proud of our sons. We pretty much stayed in our area of town except to go mall shopping etc. We use to buy beef jerky at Sambo's meat market on Grande, it was better than any package brand. Tania's tortillas was and still is one of favorites too. Most of the shops along 12th Ave from Valencia to Ajo were also favorites of ours. We first moved out there because of the wide open spaces and of course I loved Midvale Farms back in the day. But that has all changed so much but still we plan to move back there soon. We have lived out of Arizona for the last 18 months but cannot wait to get back there. Guess you would remember the old Rodeo Drive-In and the W.T. Grants/Frys shopping center on Nogales Hwy and when Lucky Wishbone was on the corner of 6th and Irvington, is it still an old tire shop now? So many memories and seeing some of those lovely homes on and around Grande Ave being tore down saddens me. Oh, I did eat Pat's chile dogs but that sauce kind of bothered my stomach but my family still went there a lot. Ah como pierdo los dias viejos buenos..... -Deb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ |
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Re: Drug Stores
Posted by: "joebuck95@..."
Fri Mar 7, 2008 6:02 pm (PST) Hi Deb, You mentioned in another post that you worked at Encanto Drug in 1970. I was 6 years old at the time. It's likely that I went in while you worked there. My dad used to take me there. Last time I went in there was probably 1981-82. I wonder if the lunch counter is still intact. -Steve Q. ----------------------------------------------------- Steve- I am not even sure they are still in business, so many changes in that part of town thru the years. Big drugstore chains and Walmart etc have pretty much snuffed out the family run corner pharmacies and not many lunch counters left either. -Deb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. |
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Re: Drug Stores - Rincon Market...
Posted by: mmtalley@...
Fri Mar 7, 2008 11:53 am (PST) I really don't think the article was saying Rincon Market was disappearing at all. It just said the family that owns it sold it to their family friends. It also said they were keeping all employees, I think its staying -Melissa ------------------------------------------------------ You are right, I re-read the message and was really glad to hear Rincon Market will stay put for awhile, its been a landmark for so many years. I didn't live that close to the store but would sometimes shop there to see our family friend who worked there. I use to go to Trader Joe's quite a bit on that side of town too. I do hope that Shane keeps his job, I don't know what else he's every done most of his life so far. -Deb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. |
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Lighthouse "Y"
Steve Q.
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has memories to share of the Lighthouse Y when it was on Dodge & 5th street? I used to go there when I was little and remember the big house on the property. I think it was where the people who donated the land used to live. Some of the activities I remember participating in were archery, target practice with BB guns (I was only about 7 at the time. no way would that happen today)arts and crafts, and swimming lessons. At the time they had an olympic size pool with a high dive at the deep end. I actually got up the nerve to jump off it one time. It was closed in the early '70s and torn down for the apartment complex that is there now. I always thought that complex was one of the UGLIEST ones in Tucson, and that's some pretty stiff competition. |
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Re: Hello
Hi,
My mother was born on Cushing street and grew up in El Hoyo. They lived at 218 El Paso street. My maternal grandfather Margarito Garcia owned and operated Garden City Cleaners on Meyer street. I believe he came to Tucson from Mexico around 1909 and established the business around that time. It is still in existence as Garcia's Cleaners on 22nd & 5th ave. and is run by my cousins. My uncle Robert Garcia ran it for many years. Steve Q. Armando Campos wrote:
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Hello
Armando Campos
Hi all. I'm new to this group having discovered it via a newspaper article that I read a week or so ago. I was born and raised in Tucson and have lived here all my life except for the three years I was in the Marine Corps. I have enjoyed seeing some of the pictures of Tucson's past and a lot of the articles that have been posted. I grew up in my grandparents house, built by them in?the barrio known as El Hoyo. Unfortunetley a city program known as Urban Renewal forced my grandparents to sell the house they had lived in since the 20's.If you head west past the El Minuto Cafe, you will drive over the site where my grandparents house stood. It was just bad luck that their house was in the last block of houses to be demolished. Someone mentioned Arts Cooney Island hot dogs and burgers, Yes I?remember Arts, though not the rest of the name, and I also remember Jakes and Kippys 7/$1.00 mega burgers joint. I think Deb mentioned Pats chile dogs on
the southside.Well they still serve their delicious chile dogs? at Pats on Grande Ave. They are always packed. Sorry Deb, I think they are better than that other place? Anyway, good to hear from you all and? I am looking foward to?future comments and pictures. Never miss a thing. |
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Slide on Alvernon
Who remembers the giant slide on Alvernon next to the Cactus Bowl.
There is a gas station there now. For a dime we slid down on a gunny sack. It was great fun. Sometimes we got to going so fast by the last drop we were airborne and got some bumps and bruises. This was about '65 or '66. BP |
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Re: Cruising Speedway & Pied Piper of Tucson
Hi Deb & all,
I posted the rest of the scans from the Pied Piper of Tucson article in the March 4, 1966 issue of Life magazine. They're in an album titled The Pied Piper of Tucson located here: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/vanishingtucson/photos/browse/3c33?c= Supposedly the cottage where Schmid held his parties was near the nursing home owned by his parents (they also bought the cottage for him).? I've also seen a reference stating that it was about a half mile from the Flamingo hotel (where Gretchen Frtiz's car was found after she went missing) but no direction was given. Steve Q. Deb Rollins wrote: Posted by: joebuck95@...
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Re: Drug Stores
Hi Deb,
You mentioned in another post that you worked at Encanto Drug in 1970. I was 6 years old at the time. It's likely that I went in while you worked there. My dad used to take me there. Last time I went in there was probably 1981-82. I wonder if the lunch counter is still intact. Steve Q. Deb Rollins wrote: Steve Q- Someone mentioned the drug store I worked at
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Re: Restaurants
Posted by: "Phil" tucnative744@...
Wed Mar 5, 2008 7:17 pm (PST) I may be showing my age, but does anybody remember Arts Coney Island. Hot dogs and stuff Located by West Congress Near the old Greyhound bus depot. Chili Dogs 12/$1.00. ---------------------------------------------------- Was that near the old theatre? But then again I may be thinking of another place. Everybody always talked about Pat's Red Chili Hot Dogs on the southside, but I never cared for them. DerWeinerSchnitzel had the best chili dogs I thought. Now its Hamburger Stand right? -Deb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ |
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Re: Cruising Speedway
Posted by: joebuck95@...
Wed Mar 5, 2008 6:09 pm (PST) Hi, Just the other day I posted some scans of photos from the March 4, 1966 article in Life magazine that labeled him with that name. The scans are located in an album titled Speedway. ------------------------------------------------ SteveQ-Thank you so much for your info. I read up on quite a bit today. Very sad tales but all so true. Tucson was really a great place to be a teenager in back then but like most cities there was a very dark side. Thankfully, the worst thing my group did was sneak out or an occasional trashing a restaurant table and just try to have fun and not have the cops catch us after curfew. I never like the taste of beer or alcohol and never smoked anything worse than Virginia Slims menthols, which tasted lousy after awhile. I think I had fun, then maybe my group was kind of boring compared to some. Just cruising around and hangin'out with the radio blasting, multiple trips up A Mountain on Friday and Saturday nites seemed good enough. I got my heart broke and broke a few maybe, but I've had a long good marriage to my first serious love, so life hasn't been that bad! -Deb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. |
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Re: Cruising Speedway
Re: Cruising Speedway
Posted by: "George Cohn" Wed Mar 5, 2008 5:51 pm (PST) ---------------------------------------------------- George- Just read up on Charles Scmidd "The Pied Piper of Tucson" I learned a lot more than even the book I read years ago. Some of the names were familiar and I do remember the Hillcrest Nursing Home his adopted parents owned. His mother was quite a character trying to act like her little boy was an innocent angel. His death was about as dramatic as his life, grisly and predictable. Thanks for the lead. -Deb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ |
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Re: Valley of the Moon
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýSo I am assuming you are Jan's sister, (not Margaret's sister) - I never met Brice's first wife since I joined the Tarwater clan later?in 1984? living there in the Drexel Heights 'hood for ten years before we moved, and loving Willodean until the day she passed.(any beyond, she was the sweetest lady on Earth)??It is awful what the people who bought her house did to it - the first thing was to pull down all the?trees, bushes, and?flowers. They?painted it an olive green - now different people have moved in and at least?painted the house a?tamer color.? I laught she would have loved to her tales of this site since she knew so much about Tucson - and the South Side where she lived - and until the day she died have the mind of a steel trap - when they first moved to Tucson she and her husband and kdis (5 of them at the time with one to pass and one to arrive later) worked off of Drexel and Old 6th at a Chicken Ranch.? She still used the old names of things - like Midvale Park was still "the nut farm" - which I would explain wasn't nutty people but all the nut trees that used to be in that area.? She shopped off of 6th and 12th for years - loved Southgate - and she had only one credit card her whole life and it was for Western Auto- which sold tires, and funiture among other things.? She still kept the card long after the store went out of business.? In fact she had a small history of Tucson in her house but all that is gone now.? As well as some of the places she used to like to go, the "old" Kmart at Santa Clara and Valenica - Hamilton Funiture - Fair Mart - Yellow Front - she had seen so many changes since she came to Tucson.To: vanishingtucson@... From: debkaye2001@... Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:05:12 -0800 Subject: [vanishingtucson] Re:Valley of the Moon
Valley of the Moon
Posted by: "Ann Tarwater" raingirl44@hotmail. Wed Mar 5, 2008 10:40 am (PST) ------------ Ann- Are you any relation to the late Willadean Tarwater who lived out in the Drexel Heights area for many years? Her son Brice, was married to my sister in the early 80's. Brice had one two brothers, one named Stevie and had sisters but only remember one named Elaine. Willadean was a friend of mine, she lived on Hildreth street in a yellow house for many years, we lived down the block. Just curious. Thanks, Deb R. ____________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! |
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Re: Cruising Speedway
Actually he died in prison. His nickname was "The Pied
Piper of Tucson" as he was dubbed by the press. George --------------------------------------------------- Thank you George, later in the day I remembered his nickname. I think my memory fades now and then, something I thought was that he escaped and was found with a silly wig on near the tracks. Sure glad folks have a better memory than me, and to think I read the book about him years ago......did they also make a movie about him? Wow, John Dillinger, the Bonnano's, and Charles Schmidt, who said Tucson was a berg!!!!! Do remember the Old Spanish Trail Motel on Benson Hwy, where Bill Bonnano was supposedly to have hung out and something about him being shot at in the barber shop, probably got that all mixed up too. I do remember going down that little street in front of UMC and looking at the house where Charles Bonnano lived and down the back alley to see where someone had blew up his back concrete fence in the 1970's. -Deb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ |
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Re: Drug Stores
Steve Q- Someone mentioned the drug store I worked at
was Encanto Drug. Funny all those years in Tucson and I never noticed the name of it when I went past North Stone and University later in life. High school jobs were not all that memorable I guess, oh well except remembering the good looking guys who came in. Maybe you just might have one of them......LOL -Deb ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. |
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Re: Drug Stores
Posted by: "Jim Buchanan"
Wed Mar 5, 2008 12:07 pm (PST) The Encanto Drug stores were owned by a man named Mickey Ginsberg and his father. The Ginsbergs had a store on north Stone at University and another on E Speedway at Craycroft. There were other stores also. --------------------------------------------------- Now thats the one I worked at, Encanto Drug in 1970 or so. I forgot about University Ave, but do remember the Arizona Mortuary was on the corner and what I remember about Mickey Ginsberg he was a stocky, balding man in his forties or so. He was very nice to us girls who worked at the lunch counter and would always leave a tip when he ate his lunch there even though he worked just across the store at the Pharmacy and of course owned the place. But we could hear him sometimes chastising other employees. Once in awhile his father would be there and I believe his mother would come in too. Feels like a hundred years ago now. Deb R. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. |
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