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Re: Cruising Speedway
In the 60's Speedway got a chilling reputation when that Charles Schmidt was said to be a frequent cruiser around there and was arrested for murdering young girls. I was terrified when they found the
By Deb Rollins · #1751 ·
Re: Cruising Speedway
Funny to think Speedway was NAMED Speedway because it was Tucson's original drag-racing strip, way back in the 1920's. Somewhere, in my grandmother' s photo collection, I was a 1920's picture of a
By Deb Rollins · #1750 ·
Re: Mother Higgins
Mother Higgins was a real place ......JUVIE !!!!!! It's where delinquents went to spend time for their crimes and where all juveniles went for traffic violations.In the 1950s and 60s, Mother Higgins
By Deb Rollins · #1749 ·
Re: Drug Stores
Hi, I have an issue of El Tucsonense (a spanish language newspaper) from March 9, 1951. It has an ad for Martin Drug Co. which was part of the Rexall chain. It says they had stores at Speedway &
By Deb Rollins · #1748 ·
Re: Drug Stores
There was a Rexall on the southeast corner of Oracle and Grant where the Circle K is now. Also Nick DeGrazia was pretty well known at the old "Boondocks" when it was located on the northwest corner of
By Deb Rollins · #1747 ·
Re: Hamburger stands
Oh wow, all those places bring back a lot of digested burgers and cherry cokes in the day. Lucky Wishbone was and is still a favorite of our family. Something about their burgers was different, maybe
By Deb Rollins · #1746 ·
Re: "The Illegals" (street racing)...
I also remember hanging out at the Johnie's near 22nd and Alvernon. Does anyone also remember when the jet crashed at a Lucky's market near Alvernon and 29th? We had just left the bowling alley a few
By Deb Rollins · #1745 ·
Re: De Grazia Mexican Restaurant?
I do remember the De Grazia shops and restaurant. But also years ago (late 60's to mid 80's) there was a mexican restaurant on the corner of Mission/Drexel Rds called El Poblano. In the small strip
By Deb Rollins · #1744 ·
Re: Mother Higgins...
I remember it well. I first moved to Arizona in 1964, we lived in Willcox but traveled to Tucson to shop at El Con Mall, the old water tower was still there then. And of course, us girls would get Mom
By Deb Rollins · #1743 ·
Re: Drug Stores
Let's not forget the very classy downtown drug store "Pennington Drug" owned and operated by Ben & Ann Fink. Jim Buchanan wrote: Drugstore. stores. 6th ave wrote: and It
By Jim Buchanan <jamesb5678@...> · #1741 ·
Re: Drug Stores
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
By Jim Buchanan <jamesb5678@...> · #1742 ·
Valley of the Moon
For you folks who missed the notice in the paper there was a "one last time viewing" a little while ago. they closed until they could raise funds to open it again. (minus whatever the status of the
By Ann Tarwater · #1740 ·
Song File
Carlos, did we ever pull together a song file I found a few out of the way ones. Ghetto Cowboy - buy Bone Thugs-n-Harmony "These directions say we go to Tucson, Arizona" You Can Sleep While I Drive -
By Ann Tarwater · #1739 ·
OK Market?
anyone out there hae any history on the OK Market SW corner of th Ave and 16th St? It's still standing, but quite the eyesore these days thnaks, Bill
By azhwy666 · #1738 ·
Re: Valley of the Moon
<fcasanova@...> wrote: It closed recently . . . it was in the newspaper. I guess they ran out of volunteers to do the upkeep on it. The old guy died a long time ago. There have been newspaper stories
By ! <KMcVeigh05@...> · #1737 ·
Re: Drug Stores - Rincon Market...
By Melissa Talley · #1736 ·
Re: Drug Stores - Rincon Market...
Hello Melissa, You're right. The Rincon Market has only been on the corner of 6th and Tucson since the late 60's. Apparently before that, it was Savory Foods, and before that, Martin Drug. Does anyone
By mistercopacetic · #1735 ·
Re: Valley of the Moon
Valley of the Moon is still there. In the 80s it had been resurrected by a group of actors. My father took my brother and I (I was about a freshman in high school, my brother is a lot younger then me)
By Diana · #1734 ·
Re: De Grazia Mexican Restaurant?
This was on the southeast corner of Fort Lowell and Campbell. Some of the buildings are still standing but where the resteraunt was is now gone. Their cheese crisps were smokin' hot...big and bubbly
By azghostdog <azghostdog@...> · #1733 ·
Valley of the Moon
Hey...Does anyone remember this wierd eclectic place called The Valley of the Moon? Kind of all built out of stone and this old guy (white hair and long white beard) would do this act with white mice
By Frank Casanova <fcasanova@...> · #1732 ·