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 was in the Marine
Corps. I have enjoyed seeing some of the pictures of
Tucson's past and a lot of the articles that have been
posted. I grew up in my grandparents house, built by
them in the barrio known as El Hoyo. Unfortunetley a
city program known as Urban Renewal forced my
grandparents to sell the house they had lived in since
the 20's.If you head west past the El Minuto Cafe, you
will drive over the site where my grandparents house
stood. It was just bad luck that their house was in
the last block of houses to be demolished. Someone
mentioned Arts Cooney Island hot dogs and burgers, Yes
I remember Arts, though not the rest of the name, and
I also remember Jakes and Kippys 7/$1.00 mega burgers
joint. I think Deb mentioned Pats chile dogs on the
southside.Well they still serve their delicious chile
dogs at Pats on Grande Ave. They are always packed.
Sorry Deb, I think they are better than that other
place? Anyway, good to hear from you all and I am
looking foward to future comments and pictures.
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Armando- I too am new here and I enjoy reading all the
postings and referrals to other websites. We lived on
the southwest side of town for over 40 yrs and both
our sons graduated from Pueblo High School. The
openess and beauty led us to that part of town but its
changed too much with expansion and traffic problems
these days. My husband was a Marine, getting wounded
in Viet Nam and our sons both joined the Corps right
after graduating. The older one had to medically
discharge after 16 yrs due to some wounds he recieved
in Iraq a few years ago, he is fine and works a
federal job, the other son is in his 10th year of
service and is now at Camp Pendleton getting reading
for his second deployment in a few months. Its hard
worrying so much but we are very proud of our sons.
We pretty much stayed in our area of town except to go
mall shopping etc. We use to buy beef jerky at Sambo's
meat market on Grande, it was better than any package
brand. Tania's tortillas was and still is one of
favorites too. Most of the shops along 12th Ave from
Valencia to Ajo were also favorites of ours. We first
moved out there because of the wide open spaces and of
course I loved Midvale Farms back in the day. But that
has all changed so much but still we plan to move back
there soon. We have lived out of Arizona for the last
18 months but cannot wait to get back there. Guess you
would remember the old Rodeo Drive-In and the W.T.
Grants/Frys shopping center on Nogales Hwy and when
Lucky Wishbone was on the corner of 6th and Irvington,
is it still an old tire shop now? So many memories and
seeing some of those lovely homes on and around Grande
Ave being tore down saddens me. Oh, I did eat Pat's
chile dogs but that sauce kind of bothered my stomach
but my family still went there a lot.
Ah como pierdo los dias viejos buenos.....
-Deb
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