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Re: Found a cool "whatever happened to?" link
Frank Casanova
Hi All...As one of the KTKT DJ' from the late '60s noted on this site,
I invite you to check out www.ktkt99.com for some great look backs at the hay-day of Tucson's premier top-40 rocker. The guys putting together this site will be building a new section featuring the jocks of the late '60's...it ought to be fun! (Just joined and love this group) |
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Re: mystery picture - Oxford Plaza?
--I remember this shopping center there was a shoe store and next to
that was Beverly Fridel's dance studio I took dancing lessons there also. The grocery store at one time was called "El Rancho" they used to have Easter egg hunts there every year. Next to that was Thrifty Drug . The cloth store was a "Hancocks" and then there was an S.S. Kressges which later became an Elaine Powers Figure salon. Further east on the strip was a shoe repair shop and a barber. In the upstairs portion there was a navy recruiting office. There used to be a Gas station in the parking lot in the corner at 22nd and wilmot and also the restaurnat was a "Bob's Big Boy" It had the huge Big Boy statue standing outside. - vanishingtucson@..., "bagbaazai" <bagbaazai@...> wrote: Was toit Hancock's? There was a grocery store there at one time. I used Beverlygo there with my aunt. I took gymnastics and dance lessons at sodaFridel's Dance Studio at the west end of the plaza. There was a Buffalopop bottle from a soda machine there. Later on there was a liquorExchange where the laundry mat used to be. I think there was a thestore at the east end. Can't remember anything else. Need to read Hancock's.rest of the posts and maybe my memory will be sparked.I think the fabric store there was always (and still is) a Next door to it (to the west) was a Thrifty's Drugstore. |
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Re: Restaurants
I was never actually at Old Adobe. My parents and their friends were. However since returning to Tucson in 2001 I have occasion to tour the interior of the Cabrillo Adobe at Broadway around Stone Ave on the south side of the street.. It used to be restaurant and the large patio there looks exactly like the outdoor patio in your picture. I'm positive it's a match. The adobe even has some of the old restaurant equipment left on site. It's a very "old" Tucson atmosphere, although today that doesn't seem to have much value and no one remembers what the heck it was like.
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From: <joebuck95@...> Yes. The Midway and the Arroyo. I regret that I never went into the Arroyo.Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. |
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Re: Triple C Chuckwagon, windmills, etc...
lanniemalaha
Hello, All........
Addresses of places written about below can be problematic. My Tucson City Directories are from 1955 and 1959. These directories don't list addresses in the county........just inside the city limits. If a person is listed and they live outside the city, then just the street or road name is listed....no number. Businesses may or may not be in the book. I'd be happy to look for any person or address in these years.... Triple C is not listed in 1959. Lannie --- In vanishingtucson@..., Ann Tarwater <raingirl44@...> wrote: used to sing - you got dinner in a tin pan and then sat on benches for the show - after the Son didn't tour as much the Camp Family sang themselves or brought in other acts. You can Google it there are lots of articles on the Triple C - it closed in 2003 I think - I always liked hearing the singing as I drove by. the numbers it was on about 12 acres of land. 19:37:19 +0000Subject: [vanishingtucson] Triple C Chuckwagon, windmills, etc... I can justbarely remember the places you mentioned. Can you or anyone elserefresh my memory? Anyone (Lannie) have addresses? And yes, photosare ALWAYS welcome. Always. There are folders for restaurants andgas stations in the photos section.Thanks for your contributions,Carlos--- In vanishingtucson@..., "Ann Tarwater"<raingirl44@> wrote:>> I know we went over quite a few places that closed and I forgot to > mention one - live nearby but never went-> > The Triple C chuckwagon Dinners - there are now streets there named > for the Camp Family (no houses yet) but the sign is still there, > peeling but still there - should a snap a pic? Speaking of windmills there is a house near me on windmill strett >The windmill is close by - they repainted it but it is there.> > and he has a near place with windmills and old signs and a replica of an old gas station - I took some pics from the street once did anyget your "fix". |
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Re: Tucson Films...
Steve Q.
Hi Carlos,
It's been 20 years since I saw "Can't Buy Me Love" but I remember some scenes shot on Speedway. One film that's always left off these lists on the internet is "Stir Crazy" from 1980 starring Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor. It has scenes shot downtown at Congress & Stone, in the Valley Bank building, at a strip bar that used to be on Craycroft & 29th & the Old Tucson Rodeo Grounds, etc. They filmed the prison scenes at the prison in Florence. I would assume Petrocelli has some good shots since his office was at Congress & Scott, but I barely remember that show. Is it even available? --- In vanishingtucson@..., "mistercopacetic" <mistercopacetic@...> wrote:
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Re: Restaurants
Yes. The Midway and the Arroyo. I regret that I never went into the Arroyo.
I posted a photo in the mystery pics album. I wonder if it might be the Old Adobe Patio restaurant. Would you be able to identify it if you saw a pic? Here's the link: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/vanishingtucson/photos/view/d23d?b=4 The address for Old Adobe was 40 W. Broadway. At some point it was called Studio Patio though I don't know if that was before or after the Old Adobe name. ryderpj wrote: I noticed the Arroyo Restaurant from the 1947 directory. I used to
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Re: Restaurants
ryderpj
I noticed the Arroyo Restaurant from the 1947 directory. I used to
live back behind the Midway Drive-In Theater on Speedway. My parents would take me to lunch or dinner at The Arroyo all the time. Chicken pot pie and apple pie. Yum!!! Of course they would go to El Corral or the Old Adobe by themselves. I had macaroni and cheese with the baby sitter.--- In vanishingtucson@..., "Steve Q." <joebuck95@...> wrote:
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Re: Tucson Films...
George Cohn
Bruce Stirling wrote:
A co-worker, who rode a chopped Harley to work everyday, andSame job I had as an extra in "Scandalous John" a Disney flick filmed near Golder Dam and Tucson. ;-) I was working at Musselmans Honda one summer and they called and asked if anyone wanted to fill in for a rider that wasn't able to make it to Tucson. Seems to me they paid something like $60 for the day and $75 for me to ride my own bike. The movie was such a flop that I think it opened in Tucson at the Apache Drive-In where I saw it. Another grade B flick was "It Lives Again" a monster baby flick that was filmed at St. Joseph's Hospital while I worked there. After the Sisters found out what the movie was about, they kicked them out after two days and the remaining Tucson scenes were filmed at a local hotel. My boss at the time played Dr. Fairchild and even had a line or two. The sign said Tucson Memorial Hospital and was actually the loading dock. George Cohn |
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Re: Restaurants
Howdy right back at ya! ? What a cool site. I miss so many of the old places. I just read about Ernie Menehune in the caliente section of the daily Star. My dad used to take us on school nites to the Spanish Trail to see him from the early 60's on.What a lounge show he had! Dad with his martini's and me with my homework and Roy Rogers!??And Dean shorts "Ports o Call", with all of that cool decor! I grew up loving all of that and the Tucson Toros! My heart breaks! ? Wm. "Steve Q." wrote:
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Good Grief
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýCarlos, great article but by the look of the site you are going to be one busy guy - 110 new members and counting!!!? ? ? Welcome to all you new folks!!!! Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. |
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Restaurants
Steve Q.
Hi all,
I wanted to mention a few more restaurants that might have been forgotten. Buffum's at 134 S. Tucson Blvd. (Wasn't there also a bar called the Dew Drop Inn on the same block?) Frampton-Stone Cafeteria at 536 N. 4th Avenue. I've added some scans of ads for these places (with pics) to the restaurants album here: Also included are an ad w/pic of the Saddle & Sirloin and a scan of a list of restaurants that were members of the Chamber of Commerce in 1957. I'd also like to correct an error I made in several previous posts. The El Rio Drugstore was on University & Stone, not Main. Oops. My face is red. |
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Re: Regarding Radio and "Birdie" and Old Stone Houses
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI have heard about the house in Tucson Mountain park no sure if we are speaking of the same one so here are the directions- this house is round and you can hike to it from a neighborhood off of La Cholla - they are builing houses near the base of the hill this house is on - in between the Trails West homes and the edge of Tucson Mountain park - it is an extension of Starr Pass homes and one the construction guys told my son's friend that they are cheapest at $750,000 to get to this house take La Cholla North from Ajo and then turn?left on San Juan (it is past 36th street but before Cholla High school) - go to the Stop sign at Shannon (this is after the stop sign for Greasewood) take a left and then a quick right on San Juan (there are two streets right together but it is the second one) drive to the end of the street and look up and you can see the house on the hill.? I need to get back by there and see the access path - with the houses built you may have to use the access at the end of Shannon.? If you are coming from the North side just take Greasewood South continue through the light past Star Pass and at the corner of Greasewood and San Juan take a right and follow the rest of the directions.? My son's friend used to live right at the end of the road so they would camp up in the house before they started the new home construction.
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The Mug and GQ... Henry Gonzalez???
Is this Henry Gonzalez of The Mug the same Henry Gonzalez that later
opened GQ at the corner of Kolb and 22nd on the west end of the complex - behind what is a pottery place now (I think)??? see ad scan: I remember hearing that GQ stood for Gonzalez Quality - I know the owners of that were relatives of an old friend I grew up with... just wanted to know if this was the same Henry! |
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Stone house on Ajo & Old Ajo
When I was seven years old, my oldest brother and my dad got into a
hooraw and my brother wound up taking off. He actually lived in the old house for almost a month before my parents found him. He had been working for Circle K on the eastside and he was able to transfer to the store on Ajo and Holiday Isle, so it was just a short bike ride to work from the old house. Years later I spent many a sunrise there with my friend who lived on old Ajo. It's a brief hike to get to it now and I think you have to cross private property to get to it, so you may need to get permission from the people at the trailer park. Back in 71 my dad drove us up there in his Cadillac but the road is gone now. The last time I was up there was Jan.1,2000 and it was pretty well trashed and littered. I sure do have a lot of good memories of the place, we used to dream about owning it and finishing it, what a great make out spot. I know we took some pictures up there, but even if she still has them, I doubt that they would be appropriate for this group. |
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Re: Who Remembers The Tucson Press Club? The Grid Iron Show?
When we were kids, "The Hellbox" was considered a racey magazine. Mom
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has a collection of them somewhere. Here is a link to it online, if I haven't already posted it: A book was written about The Tucson Press Club, too. Somewhere here I have a copy. --- In vanishingtucson@..., "joebuck95" <joebuck95@...> wrote:
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Re: Tucson Films...
I was a student at the UofA when "CC and Company" was filmed. For
some reason, I always thought this movie was called "CC Rider" or "CC Ryder." A co-worker, who rode a chopped Harley to work everyday, and who looked like a real badass, was hired as an extra to sit on his bike for a few days in Sabino Canyon and drink beer with a bunch of bikers. Later, filming was done inside Arizona Stadium, where Namath rode around the cinder track on a Harley with Ann Margaret on the back. We couldn't get close enough to really get a good look. Like a football game, we should have taken binos. --- In vanishingtucson@..., "Cherlyn Strong" <cnbstrong@...> wrote: scenes in the movie, my husband says, but he saw it such a long time ago, he can'tlisted in their database, but I found so many reviews about what an awfulfilm 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.some of them to my "Netflix Queue", if I find anything worthwhile in thesemovies, I'll let you know.Doesn't Live Here Anymore". Some of the opening scenes "in New Jersey" wereTucson. It's been a few years since I watched it, and just didn't make it to thenow - there's a really good Chicago Store scene (filmed both inside andoutside the store, without dressing up the store, or changing the name).Priceless footage. |
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Re: Regarding Radio and "Birdie" and Old Stone Houses
Great photos Helen. It's so interesting to see those open spaces in that area. I went to SS Peter & Paul school from '71-'74 so I went by there a lot when I was a kid.
I posted some scans of 2 versions of the KWFM bumper sticker in the Tucson Radio album on the vanishingtucson site. One has the Rocks Tucson slogan. http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/vanishingtucson/photos/browse/7c99 Your post reminded me that I have a Louis L'Amour novel autographed by him to Ted DeGrazia. My mom worked at the Gallery in the Sun for about 27 years. She pulled it out of the garbage. I was friends with one of DeGrazia's grandsons when I was a kid. I met him a couple of times. My friend and I met in second grade at SS Peter & Paul. Helengg1@... wrote:
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Re: Regarding Radio and "Birdie" and Old Stone Houses
Hello Helen,
Thanks for those photos. I found some here: Did you post others? Ann, I can't find the photo you mentioned. I created a folder called "Tucson Mountains" for anything in the mountains west of town. You can add your stone house photos to it, here: Helen I know the ruins you are talking about! I think Ann is referring to the stone house you can see from your car on the south side of the road as you drive on Ajo Way near Kinney Road. My two favorite places for legal night hiking are Sabino Canyon and Tumamoc Hill. They're so close and easy. I don't have the patience to drive all the way beyond Gates Pass, or up Mount Lemmon. Someone please let us know if there are others. I personally wish Agua Caliente Park was open at night. Was there ever a period when that area was a "make out spot" before the Park Service began to control it? Thanks, Carlos --- In vanishingtucson@..., Helengg1@... wrote: was my grandmother's horse, not my great-grandmother's. my mother told mejust about every kid in those days learned to ride on him, he was so gentle.he lived to 30. accidentally put it in the "Bookman's" pile.into one of the Stone Houses Ann mentioned. Is that the one on the Yetmantrail right in the middle of Tucson mountain park? it was a favorutedestination for old hiking club moonlight hikes. take a boombox, build a fire in the oldand danced while everyone else whined because it wasn't country music. oh well, theymissed all the fun. not long after my trip, a park patrol showed up duringthe dance and kicked them out.*sigh* during a lunar eclipse, the whole thing filled up and some friendsand I hiked to the top of a small hill to watch, and along come the authorities tokick us out.Living. ( 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) |
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Re: "Last golf game at the Magic Carpet" fund raiser April 26th...
--- In vanishingtucson@..., "mistercopacetic"
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Regarding Radio and "Birdie" and Old Stone Houses
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýRegarding, first, "Birdie," turns out HE, (yest, Birdie was a he) was my grandmother's horse, not my great-grandmother's.? my mother told me just about every kid in those days learned to ride on him, he was so gentle.? he lived to 30.
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somewhere, my mom has a copy of "The Mine With The Iron Door" book, autographed and all.? she just can't find it, but I doubt that she accidentally put it in the "Bookman's" pile.
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Regarding Radio, oh I loved "KWFM rockkkkkkks Tucson."? which leads into one of the Stone Houses Ann mentioned.? Is that?the one on the Yetman trail right in the middle of Tucson mountain park?? it was a favorute destination for old hiking club moonlight hikes.? take a boombox, build a fire in the old fireplace and dance.? until I led it.? I took alternative rock music and danced while everyone else whined because it wasn't country music.? oh well, they missed all the fun.? not long after my trip, a park patrol showed up during the dance and kicked them out.
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you're no longer allowed to use Tucson Mountain Park after dark.? *sigh*? during a lunar eclipse, the whole thing filled up and some friends and I hiked to the top of a small hill to watch, and along come the authorities to kick us out.
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