Photos: Life in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ in the early 1960s
See what ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ residents saw and experienced in 1960-61.Â
Campbell Plaza
Thousands attended the formal opening of the new $2 million Campbell Plaza shopping Center at the northeast corner of North Campbell Avenue and East Glenn Street on April 7, 1960. Originally, the parking facilities was designed to handle 850 vehicles but it was overflowing for the event. The plaza is situated on 18 acres and has 18 tenants.
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Rodeo
A bullrider crawls away from a bull, probably as fast as he can during the 1961 La Fiesta de los Vaqueros.Â
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Rodeo
A saddle bronc rider takes a header into the ground as the pick up man, background, rides up to catch the horse during the 1961 La Fiesta de los Vaqueros.Â
Ted DeGrazia
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ artist °Õ±ð»åÌýDeGrazia in April, 1960, next to "Los Niños," which was chosen as the official Christmas card by UNICEF in 1960.
Aerospace and ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Days parade
During the Aerospace and ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Days parade on February 3, 1961, a Boeing Bomarc anti-aircraft missile makes its way north on Stone Avenue in front of The ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ and ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Daily Citizen building. The downtown parade displayed units from Davis-Monthan Air Force base where the remainder of the celebration took place over the weekend.Â
'Thunder of Drums' filming in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ — Charles Bronson
Thunder of Drums movie. April 8 1961.Â
Downtown ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Downtown ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ buildings on Pennington Street looking west from Scott Ave towards Stone Ave, ca. 1960. Pennington Drugs is at left.Â
Downtown ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Downtown ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ buildings taken 1960.Â
University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ astronomy
October 11, 1961 — Telescope automation comes to astronomy as Dr. Waler S. Fitch looks into a photometer that measures the brightness of stars and adjusts controls for the automatic punch unit that will put the information on cards. In the background is the University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s 36-inch telescope.
"Bockscar," the Boeing B-29
"Bockscar," the Boeing B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, shown in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, in 1955. It was transferred to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in 1961.
Ernie McCray
Ed Nymeyer, left, and Ernie McCray, former ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ basketball star, right, in March, 1961 in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.
Duke Ellington in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Jazz performer and composer Duke Ellington interviewed on Sept. 15, 1961 in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.Â
University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Homecoming
The caption for this 1961 UA Homecoming parade photo in the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Citizen was both sweet and sexist: "Four beaming coeds set the tone for the slogan put on the Pi Beta Phi float in the annual University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Homecoming Parade. The girls also, as a lesson in economics, carry symbols of items which ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ produces, along with pretty girls."
Hiway House Motor Hotel
Poolside and patio area at the Hiway House Motor Hotel at 1601 N Miracle Mile Strip in May 1961.Â
Horse racing at Rillito Park
Snow across the Santa Catalina Mountains as the horses run at Rillito Park in January, 1960.
Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign in 1960
Sen. Lyndon Johnson's campaign plane at ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ International Airport on Sept. 15, 1960, during a Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign event. His motorcade is assembled in foreground. Johnson flew first to Phoenix. He "hand-shook and child-hugged his way through a small crowd," according to the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Citizen.Â
Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign in 1960
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson speaking at the Pioneer Hotel in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ on Sept. 15, 1960 during a campaign stop for the Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign. He lauded ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Sen. Carl Hayden (Johnson is pointing to him the picture) and said he has "done more for ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ than any five men." He also said former ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Sen. Ernest McFarland "taught me all I know." He went after the Republicans: "The future of the West has languished in a pigeonhole at the Republican Bureau of the Budget and the West will not forget."Â
Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign in 1960
Sen. John F. Kennedy stepped off his DC-3 campaign plane and was greeted by about 150 people and given a sombrero and "an undersized cowboy hat," according to the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Citizen, at ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Municipal Airport in April 1960, during an appearance in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, Ariz.Â
Building the road to Kitt Peak National Observatory
Building the road to Kitt Peak National Observatory in May, 1960: Workers slip explosives into holes to blast away rock.Â
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Rodeo Parade
The Pomeroy Elementary School band marches along Congress St. in front of the Fox Theater during the 1961 ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Rodeo Parade.Â
SS Kresge Store
The new S.S. Kresge Store at the Oxford Plaza Shopping Center on East 22nd Street near South Wilmot Road was one of several new businesses in the area in October 1961.Â
The Powers Affair
Tom Powers, left, and John Powers sit on a hued at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ State Prison in Florence in 1960. They were convicted for the murders of three sheriff's deputies in 1918.Â
The Copa
The Copa at South Craycroft and 29th Street in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, pictured in November, 1961, featured 24 bowling lanes, liquor and free babysitting.Â
Southern ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Bank and Trust Co.
Southern ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Bank and Trust Co., ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s first "motor bank," according to the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Citizen in Aug. 1961. (Possibly southside of Alameda, east of Church Ave.)
Fallout shelter
Dr. and Mrs. A. Russell Aanes check their civil defense rations as they start a two-week stay in an above-ground fallout shelter at KGUN-TV studios in October, 1961. The couple said they were "looking forward to catching up on long-delayed reading, napping and being away from the telephone." The TV station had a remote camera and would periodically monitor the couple inside.
Fallout shelter
John Stufflebean and family in their fallout shelter in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ in April, 1961.
Harlow Nursery
On December 8, 1961, workers from Harlow Nursery plant Joshua and fan palm trees in front of a business at 82 S Stone Ave. Photo byÂ
ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ shopping in years past
Thousands of vehicles in the parking lot of the new Montgomery Ward store in El Con Shopping Center on its first day of business in February, 1961. Photo taken from the historic El Conquistador Hotel, which was demolished by 1968 to make way for mall expansion. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Citizen
Winterhaven Festival of Lights
Time exposure of Luminaria Lane in the Winterhaven subdivision in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ in December, 1961. Residents along Greenlee Road and Stewart Avenue placed hundreds of traditional Mexican luminarias around their homes.
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