Re: Found a cool "whatever happened to?" link
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
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Frank Casanova <fcasanova@...>
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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
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azhootsiegirl
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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
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ryderpj@...
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Re: Triple C Chuckwagon, windmills, etc...
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
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lanniemalaha <lannini@...>
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Re: Tucson Films...
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
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Steve Q. <joebuck95@...>
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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
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joebuck95@...
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Re: Restaurants
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.
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ryderpj <ryderpj@...>
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Re: Tucson Films...
Bruce Stirling wrote: Same 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
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George Cohn <george@...>
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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
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Windopro Willie
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Good Grief
Carlos, 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!!!!
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Ann Tarwater
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Restaurants
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
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Steve Q. <joebuck95@...>
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Re: Regarding Radio and "Birdie" and Old Stone Houses
I 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
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Ann Tarwater
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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
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diamondbacks07fan
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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
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patrickbgawne
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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 has a collection of them somewhere. Here is a link to it online, if I haven't already posted it:
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Bruce Stirling
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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,
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Bruce Stirling
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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
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joebuck95@...
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Re: Regarding Radio and "Birdie" and Old Stone Houses
Hello Helen, Thanks for those photos. I found some here: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/vanishingtucson/photos/browse/63e1 Did you post others? Ann, I can't find the photo you mentioned. I created a
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mistercopacetic
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Re: "Last golf game at the Magic Carpet" fund raiser April 26th...
<mistercopacetic@...> wrote: GREAT GREAT GREAT NEWS!!!
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Linda
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Regarding Radio and "Birdie" and Old Stone Houses
Regarding, 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,
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Helen Greer
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