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Goldwater's crystal ball: Fifty years ago, senator penned predictions on Arizona at 100
Barry Goldwater was a U.S. senator in 1962 when he wrote this piece for the Tucson Citizen newspaper. On this centennial day, see for yourself…
And they will make a joyful noise to welcome statehood
Leading up to Arizona's centennial today, we are reprinting a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Our readers' predictions
We invited letter writers to peer into the future and tell us what our state will be like 50 years from now.
Peek at the past indicates Arizona's endless potential
To gain some insight into Arizona's future, we need to look back on the past. Who would have thunk it? The average life span of an American in…
Our water resources will be more diverse
Given what we've faced in the past decade in terms of drought, and adding the future uncertainty posed by climate change, it's safe to say tha…
More convenience, new financing ahead
Houses have a life of well over 50 years, which means there will be a significant number of homes in existence today in 2062 as well. Living i…
Gift that keeps on giving - Arizona's public lands
The date is February 2062. As we celebrate our sesquicentennial, many of Arizona's 11 million residents know that every time we turn on the fa…
Blending cultures and mastering the new technologies
Arizona will be a remarkable example of the successful blending of diverse cultures - including the strength of our state's Hispanic heritage …
Access, costs, innovation key as student count grows
As I am asked to consider the future of higher education in Arizona, I can easily fall back on the insight of the perennial statesmen Barry Go…
Greg Hansen: Tucson still in game if sports leaders act to update facilities for new teams, fans
Since it turned 50 in 1962, Arizona has added NFL, NBA, NHL and major-league baseball franchises. It has played host to multiple Super Bowls, …
Bonnie Henry: No matter how old Arizona grows, some things will likely never change
I get a little cranky trying to predict what Arizona will be like 50 years from now, considering I will no longer be part of the scene. Face i…
Ernesto Portillo: Multicultural newcomers welcome in desert home
Tucson, with its deep Mexican roots, will be more multicultural by 2062.
Josh Brodesky: Rio Nuevo, Rose Bowl will arrive - someday
To get a glimpse of our future in 2062, I turned to my friends on Facebook. This seemed fitting. Facebook was something no one could have pred…
Arizona at 100 predictions
Barry Goldwater was a U.S. senator in 1962 when he wrote a piece for the Tucson Citizen newspaper. See for yourself what Arizona's most famous…
Ranger predicted mining boom on forest land
Leading up to Arizona's centennial Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Change proceeded apace on city's Lawyers' Lane
Leading up to Arizona's centennial Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Your photos can document the centennial
Wanted: your photos of a day in the life of Arizona - taken on the state's 100th birthday Tuesday.
Case was made for adopting a movable federal court here
Leading up to Arizona's centennial Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Photos: Mormon refugees fled Mexico in 1912
Thousands of refugees from the Mormon colonies of Chihuahua and Sonora left their homes in Mexico and came to the United States to leave the M…
February 11, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
Drachman cigar store, oldest in state, was sold
Leading up to Arizona's centennial Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
'Red-eyed wolf' got his comeuppance in a welter of blood
Leading up to Arizona's centennial Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Missouri-Pacific railroad man sang praises of Tucson
Leading up to Arizona's centennial Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Boy, 12, held in bike theft, was deemed an incorrigible
Leading up to Arizona's centennial, Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Lottery
Drawings for Monday, Feb. 6
City leaders pursued effort to get military post established here
Leading up to Arizona's centennial Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Construction of new station boosted Clifton's workforce
Leading up to Arizona's centennial Feb. 14, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives.
Our compromises didn't last long
Arizona Daily Star.
The men who crafted Arizona's constitution
On the 52 men who wrote Arizona's Constitution, 41 Democrats and 11 Republicans: "The delegates from one county were composed of a machinist, …
No 'Glad Frenzy' as subdued crowd marked the day
"More with complacency than with enthusiasm, Phoenix celebrated the event," The Arizona Republican reported.
Townspeople planted tall white oak
Twice the territorial capital, Prescott marked statehood by planting a native white oak more than 20 feet high, the Prescott Weekly Miner-Jour…
They fired guns, of course
"The occasion was enlivened by the presence of a number of cowboys from the ranges who punctured the air with an enthusiastic fusillade of pis…
Sirens, bells sang the news
The newspapers learned first, naturally, by the wire that President Taft had signed the statehood proclamation. They in turn alerted everyone else.
Arizona was admitted to confederacy in 1862
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Goldwater a ring bearer at statehood event
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Lots of news from 1912 has familiar ring
It's been our delight over the past year to reprint one article a day from 1912 editions of the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen.
Copper interests influenced much of what Star published
When Arizona became a state, the Arizona Daily Star was owned by the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co.
Then & now
February 05, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
They were here
February 05, 2012 12:00 am PhotosPhotos
- Farmers on Rillito got a new postal route
- Court approved Chinese resident's handling of estate
- Local goat settled in car, eventually negotiated exit with owner
- Mining discovery held potential for good gold output
- Plaintiff threatened to sue landlords in red-light area
- Real estate deals anticipated 'big boom'
- Judge's injunction put a stop to house of prostitution
- Railroad manager impressed by growth in Casa Grande
- Pima was found to be one of state's healthiest counties
- Railroad was adding trains; roundhouse, depot being built
- Year's major real estate deals indicated prosperity in the Tucson area
- Philanthropic woman took in girl, 4
- Bricks of local rock were tested
- Road signs, culverts needed
- 18 suits arising from Clifton flood were settled
- NY Rep. Fairchild was a big fan of city
- Injunction granted vs. 3-cent fare in case affecting railroad's rates
- Business in Tucson appeared to be thriving
- Auto replaced horses carrying Christmas mail
- Building permits issued briskly, but nothing like in 1907
- Woman was run over; car was injured slightly
- Horses left calling cards
- Fundraising started for bandstand
- Tucson was made transfer point for freight headed to S. Arizona
- Brief stay found life in prison not bad
- Buick dealership was in works
- Army mules, automobiles in accident on Naco road
- Thoroughbred stock seen as future of cattle business
- School in session day after holiday
- Resident asks cops to police hen coops
- Patagonia showed signs of booming
- Crowd planned to greet train
- 3-day carnival celebrated canal under Colorado River
- Arrestee was tied to rebels in Mexico
- Infamous cattle thieves were convicted - finally
- Sheepmen, citing destruction, protested plan to import elk
- Official vowed to fight legal challenge to state's authority
- Tucson Gas, Electric valued at $327K
- Testing was starting for gov't jobs
- Florence: a prison town, sure, but Arizona in miniature, too
- New brick building was going up
- Schedules, routes were settled for regional railroad service
- Classes of general interest were offered at university
- Railroad executive attended hearings on San Carlos Dam
- Heart trouble, TB, accidents listed as top causes of death
- Rangers' per diem payments change
- Inventor stood to make fortune on his patent
- Buy locally, not by mail, residents urged
- Paintings by Tucson artist draw favorable comments
- Cyanide found in stomach of Mr. L. Goldbaum's wife
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