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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
By joebuck95@... · #1811 ·
The Lighthouse YMCA
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
By Jim Buchanan <jamesb5678@...> · #1810 ·
Drug stores
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
By tricksec65 <tricksec@...> · #1809 ·
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
By Deb Rollins · #1808 ·
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
By Deb Rollins · #1807 ·
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
By Deb Rollins · #1806 ·
Slide on Alvernon
I remember the slide because of a broken tail bone I received there. Some friends & I were pretty drunk on Country Club Malt Liquor & we were trying to see who could get the most air on the last
By elviejopobre · #1805 ·
Lighthouse "Y"
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
By Steve Q. <joebuck95@...> · #1804 ·
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
By joebuck95@... · #1803 ·
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
By Armando Campos <ac73393@...> · #1802 ·
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
By ZONA1953 · #1801 ·
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:
By joebuck95@... · #1800 ·
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
By joebuck95@... · #1799 ·
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
By Deb Rollins · #1798 ·
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
By Deb Rollins · #1797 ·
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
By Deb Rollins · #1796 ·
Re: Valley of the Moon
So 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
By Ann Tarwater · #1795 ·
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
By Deb Rollins · #1794 ·
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.
By Deb Rollins · #1793 ·
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
By Deb Rollins · #1792 ·