Once a month, Arizona Oddities features a Q&A with a talented Arizona artist who is influenced by our state’s people, places and history. This month, budding photographer Claudia Torres explains how living in Tucson has shaped her portfolio.
Relive 1930s Mobster Scene During Dillinger Days in Tucson
December 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
TUCSON — Dillinger Days are held in this city on the third Saturday of each January, giving the locals and visitors a chance to dress in pinstripe suits, felt fedoras, flapper dresses and moustaches. The annual event at the Hotel Congress commemorates the arrest of John Dillinger, the notorious gangster who became the FBI’s first Public Enemy Number One.
Is Phoenix One of the “Luckiest” Cities in the Nation?
October 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What do Phoenix, Louisville, San Francisco and Wilmington, Delaware all have in common? They’re apparently very lucky places to live!
Men’s Health just named Phoenix as the third luckiest town in the nation.
Discrete Monument Honors Mormon Battalion Near Casa Grande
October 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Regarding monuments Will Rogers used to say: “You don’t need much monument if the cause is good. It’s only the monument that’s for no reason at all that has to be big.”
On the outskirts of Casa Grande, along what used to be the main highway…
The Story of Arizona’s First Newspaper: The “Arizonian”
October 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
TUBAC – More than 150 years ago – five decades before statehood – Arizona’s first newspaper hit the printing press in Tubac.
At the time, Tubac was among the territory’s more active presidios with 400 residents. The Gadsden Purchase had just been ratified five years earlier…
