Comments on: Hustlers, Ladies and Whiskey: Leisure Time and Other Diversions in Old Arizona

By: Endicott Peabody: Religion Arrives in Helldorado |

Endicott Peabody: Religion Arrives in Helldorado | — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:36:29 +0000

[...] No wild shootouts or street brawls greeted the young Easterner. Because of Tombstone’s wild and woolly reputation, he had expected the worst. Instead, he was struck by the lack of rowdyism by the locals. Tombstone [...]

By: Frank Zellner

Frank Zellner — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:56:08 +0000

I want to thank and salute the many organizations in the Buckeye Valley that made my early years so special. Their efforts provided a great diversion to the daily toils of the citizens, and quality fun for the youth.
The American Legion sponsored youth baseball, staged Rodeos, held community dances, and their Women’s Auxilliary gathered and delivered clothes to the cotton camps in the area. The Women’s club, the Odd Fellows, the Kiwanis, to name a few served our community to bring about a wonderful quality of life. I was in grade school in the 40′s and high school in the 50′s. There is no place on earth where I would have spent my youth.
The valley had a wonderful spirit. Growth seems to have an adverse effect on these things….I hope the Buckeye Valley can sustain and perserve its wonderful heritage of service to others. Most of those behind these wonderful organizations have long since passed, by my memory of them will never cease.

By: Verlyne Meck

Verlyne Meck — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:29:26 +0000

Thank you Don for kudos to Marshall. He is a great friend to Arizona.

By: Don Balmes

Don Balmes — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:57:35 +0000

Hey Marshall, I was there the day you gave us some special insights of some Arizona History during the Verlyne Meck booksigning. Verlyne is a longtime family friend. She graduated from BUHS in 1958 as best I remember and I am somewhat older. Graduated from BUHS in 1948. The Meck family is very special out in that “neck of the woods” and you yourself is very special with your great knowledge of Arizona. What a great service you do in helping others.

By: Marshall Trimble

Marshall Trimble — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:15:27 +0000

Hey Don. So did I only we came down from Ash Fork.
I was in Buckeye not long ago attending a booksigning of the Buckeye book by Verlyne Meck. A fellow came up and gave me another Arizona Odditie: Buckeye Road doesn’t go through Buckeye.

By: Don Balmes

Don Balmes — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:40:32 +0000

Many of us “Buckeye Boys” spent some wild and fun times on Prescott’s famed Whiskey Row during the Prescott Frontier Days events in the 1940s.

By: Kelton Aker

Kelton Aker — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:01:24 +0000

Good article!! And the Aker family from the twenties through the forties were in the thick of it.