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.
A swanky midcentury nightspot called The Flame set Downtown Phoenix ablaze with fine dining and dancing until it met a suspicious – and fiery, natch – demise.
Having escaped a World War II POW camp, two dozen German sailors became fugitives in the Arizona desert.
Rancho Linda Vista near Oracle evolved from a rustic Hollywood retreat into a freewheeling 1960s art commune.
A Missouri charlatan created a bogus 12-million-acre estate in Territorial Arizona via the forgery skills and a duplicitous marriage.
In 1964, Buster Bonoff brought star-studded musicals to Phoenix by adaptively reusing a futuristic building to launch what would become the Celebrity Theatre.
Broken bones and suspicious masses ran wild in Territorial Arizona until the arrival of crusading healer Dr. Ancil Martin and one game-changing piece of technology – but that’s not all he did.
Sports and social change were intertwined long before Colin Kaepernick took a knee in protest in 2016 – and one of the earliest entanglements took place in Arizona.
A poorly designed ballot and a bevy of court cases left the 1916 Arizona governor’s election undecided – for more than a year.
Predictions of rich oil deposits in Arizona fueled successive exploration booms that produced gullible investors, but no black gold.
In its heyday, an all-but-forgotten airstrip in tiny Douglas, Arizona, catered to the likes of Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt as America’s first-ever international airport. It’s now for sale.
The resurgence of drag shows on Roosevelt Row recalls the heyday of Downtown gay bar 307 Lounge.
Rock star scientist Dr. Herbert Stahnke dazzled audiences in his 1950s TV show and created a life-saving scorpion antivenin.
Early in the 20th century, the abduction of 40 Irish orphans from their Mexican foster families in Clifton created a legal battle heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
