HistoryPhoenix Files: Polio Match
After polio immunization stalled in the 1950s, Phoenix launched an innovative campaign using a new vaccine that became a worldwide model for eradicating the disease.
After polio immunization stalled in the 1950s, Phoenix launched an innovative campaign using a new vaccine that became a worldwide model for eradicating the disease.
Arguably Arizona’s most recognizable corporate brand, U-Haul celebrated its 80th year of DIY trailer and truck rental by moving to new headquarters on Central Avenue.
The ornate San Carlos Hotel is slated for upgrades to restore the splendor that made it the city’s finest hotel when it opened in Downtown Phoenix during the Roaring Twenties.
The decade that gave us the Internet, the D-backs and the greatest sustained growth spurt in city history comes back into view.
“The Pied Piper of Tucson” induced acolytes to assist in a brutal murder that ultimately led to him killing two more teenage girls in crimes that shocked the nation.
As the first female mayor of Phoenix, Margaret T. Hance reshaped the Valley’s transportation landscape and forged the municipal park system, including the park that bears her name today.
New theories have refocused attention on the 1956 tragic midair collision over the Grand Canyon that forever changed commercial aviation.
Phoenix’s second-oldest hospital, long known as Good Samaritan, has been at the forefront of medical care – and design – since its founding in 1911.
Bygone hot spot Navarre’s offered Phoenicians their first taste of crudités, vichyssoise and flaming cherries jubilee in an elegant Uptown setting for more than three decades.
The launch of the world-class Phoenix Zoo was a homespun affair conceived by a wildlife conservationist with links to the Maytag Man.
During his many visits to Arizona, Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov found inspiration and solitude – and untold butterflies.
Mining magnate William Boyce Thompson founded the world’s first botanical garden dedicated to arid species 100 years ago near Superior, Arizona.
Professional magician Bert Easley’s novelty shop and its collection of tricks, gags and costumes created fun times in Phoenix for 72 years.
A prestigious New York City jeweler sent Holocaust survivor Samuel Soldinger to Chandler to teach Native Americans the art of diamond cutting.
Surplus grapefruits in the Valley during the Great Depression led to a locally produced soda with purported health benefits that found nationwide success – and launched a thousand cocktails.