A Tucson Police officer holds kids at a safe distance while watching the 1964 Tucson Rodeo Parade in downtown Tucson.
Arizona Stadium starts to take shape as 10,000 new seats are added to the west side along Vine Street as part of the University of Arizona's $1.4 million addition to structure on April 16, 1965.
Tucson, AZ February 1, 1965 the O'Rielly Truck Center was opened at 22nd Street and Park Avenue. Courtesy O'Rielly Chevrolet
Best rear ends? Winners of the 1964 Southern Arizona International Livestock Show at the Pima County Fair.
Snow on the El Con Mall sign in Tucson on March 3, 1964, ironically welcoming the Cleveland Indians for Spring Training.
Tucsonans flock to a sale at Sam Levitz's furniture store on East 18th Street and South Euclid Avenue in 1965. family photo...At the beginning of a big sale at the 18th St. store
A copy of personal photo showing driver Frank Townsend after winnning a race at the Orange Grove 1/4 mile dirt track in 1962.
The new H. Porter's western store, at 828 N Stone Ave., was set to open at its newest site on April 5, 1963. The store moved from its previous spot next to the Pioneer Hotel to make way for the new Union Bank.
Groucho Marx accompanied his wife, Eden Hartford, to Tucson in April, 1963, to perform the stage play, “Time for Elizabeth.”
Tucson, AZ Children take a ride on small-sized tractors at Kiddyland, 3943 E Speedway near Alvernon on Dec 1962. In the era before television Sam and Ruth Cohen opened Kiddyland in 1949 and operated the playland for children until 1958. They had a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, train, cars on two-and-a-half acres. By 1962, Luverne Hicks took over the operation and had 10 mechanical rides and for a flat rate of $11.85 a birthday party of eight could be entertained with cake, ice cream, party favors, and eight rides apiece.
In January 1962 the Tucson city maintenance workers repaired some of the potholes on East Broadway and Tucson Boulevards. At the time, supervisor Milton Dumm cited the reason for the holes was that the old strip pavement was less than an inch thick.
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