--- In vanishingtucson@..., Allan Bazar <abazar3@...> wrote:
>
> I well remember the Crescent Smoke Shop.? My father, who owned and ran
> Mission Drug Store at 1537 S. Sixth Ave., which is now the location of
> the S. Tucson City Hall, was an inveterate gambler andused to place bets
> on horses at the smoke shop which was the town's sole dispenser of the
> Daily Racing Form in the forties and fifties.? I don't know if he placed
> them with the management or just some bookie who worked out of
> there...that was not information he shared with me.? Eventually he found
> a bookie who made house calls who would come to his shop so he could
> place bets more easily and probably more often.? The Crescent was also
> where you could find Jr. and Sr. High School boys sometimes two deep,
> heads bent, avoiding eye contact with any adults in the area,browsing
> Sunshine and Health magazine (or some such) to see the nude photos.?
> They were actually not very (perhaps even anti-) salacious but in that
> puritanical age it was all a pre and actively pubescent boy could hope for.
>
> It was quite definitely on the south side of Congress near, as I recall,
> the Rialto either on the same block or the next block west.? There was
> also a penny arcade nearby.? The State movie theater (2nd run) was
> across the street perhaps.? The State ran movies sometime after the
> Rialto was through with them as the Lyric did after the Fox ran them as
> first run.? Tucson was pretty low on the totem pole at that time and we
> had some godawful prints with sent to us often poorly synched and with
> poorly aligned sprocket holes. More than once while watching a picture,
> the film broke and we hooted and whistled until the harried
> projectionist would do whatever magic was necessary to get it going again.
>
> Ronstadt's hardware store was around the corner south of Congress on 6th
> as I recall.? I may be a block or so off on any of these.? I can see
> them clearly in my mind's eye though...one of the blessings of old age.
>







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