HistoryThe “Other” Road
Nostalgic motorists are rediscovering U.S. 80, a historic southern Arizona highway that has long been overshadowed by Route 66.
Nostalgic motorists are rediscovering U.S. 80, a historic southern Arizona highway that has long been overshadowed by Route 66.
A scandalous financing scheme at the Security Building went untold for 50 years after the Downtown building opened in 1928.
Hotel icon Bill Marriott reveals his surprising history with the Camelback Inn and the four most important words in the English language.
Technology developed by local air-conditioning pioneers created a livable climate indoors that fueled the Valley’s midcentury growth
Casa Grande will soon illuminate the city’s history with a new downtown park featuring its orphaned commercial signs.
When John van Hengel founded St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix in 1967, he started a global revolution in food distribution.
Prior to superstardom, The Jackson 5 played to enthusiastic crowds in Winslow – the siblings’ first performances outside their home state of Indiana.
In 1970, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner flew a gorilla from Baltimore in his DC-9 “Bunny Jet” hoping the ape would find love at the Phoenix Zoo
Phoenix’s Salad Bowl football game and parade debuted in 1948, only to wilt nine years later.
The Hotel Adams has been constructed on a grand scale three times since 1896 – twice rising from literal ashes to become a symbol of Phoenix’s stubborn survival
Two pilots kept the City of Yuma airplane aloft for a world-record 46 days in 1949 to help reopen a local military airfield.
Manzanita Raceway was a nationally known dirt racetrack that attracted top drivers for almost six decades until closing in 2009.
The Valley celebrated the end of a harsh drought in 1941 with a fiesta de H2O that attracted 50,000 revelers for food, fireworks and fun.
Pioneer aviator Francesco de Pinedo, dubbed the “Italian Lindbergh,” was on an epic four-continent flight when his seaplane was destroyed at Roosevelt Lake in 1927.
Selected to lead the resurrected Arizona Office of Film and Media, Matthew Earl Jones aims to bring Hollywood back to the land of The Searchers and Psycho.