Photos: Barrio Viejo
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It is a place with much history and lore, it is the cradle for some families that have lived there for generations and home for new memories yet to come.
Ray Martinez, a volunteer at La Pilita Museum, talks about some of the homes and people that live in Barrio Viejo near the Tucson Convention Center. Home to much history and lore it is the cradle for some families that have lived in the area for generations. It is where the past and present meet and where culture and architecture varies as does the diversity of those living in the neighborhood creating a unique flavor that says....Tucson.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
This is the exterior of La Pilita Museum in Barrio Viejo near the Tucson Convention Center. It is a place where history and many legends involving the neighborhood are embraced. Volunteers provide information on the people who lived in the area and on the local landmarks that still exist including El Tiradito, San Cosme, Teatro Carmen and Carrillo School.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
This is one of the informational displays at La Pilita Museum that features Leopoldo Carrillo who once owned a lot of the property that currently makes up Barrio Viejo. The wealthy rancher and businessman created Carrillo Gardens, Tucson's first public park. The eight acres were surrounded with hundreds of peach trees as well as grape vines, pomegranates and apricot trees. Three spring-fed ponds provided water for the vegetation, bath houses, restaurants, dance houses and more creating an oasis for the people of Tucson.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
The shrine known as El Tiradito is a place where people light candles and leave notes in the hope that their prayers may be answered. According to legend, It is dedicated to a man involved in a love triangle who died on the spot more than 150 years ago.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Long-time residents Alice Riesgo Galvan and her son Fernando Antonio Galvan sit on a piece of furniture that belonged to her late husband's grandmother as they talk about some of the homes, memories and people that live in Barrio Viejo.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Open ceilings, brightly colored walls and floors plus beams that are said to come from the Santa Catalina Mountains add character to the the living room at the home of Tania Rhodes and Ashley Stinnett on South Elias Avenue.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Named after Leopoldo Carrillo, Carrillo K-5 Magnet School is located in the area once known as Carrillo Gardens, the city's first park. There were some eight acres of spring-fed artificial lakes, gardens and a recreation center. Since 1937 the students at Carrillo have been enacting Las Posadas with a procession. A few days before Christmas the students dress in colorful peasant costumes and walk through Barrio Viejo. For generations, families and community members have walked with the children singing traditional songs.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Dominic Samaniego leads the procession during 76th annual Las Posadas at Carrillo K- 5 Magnet School in historic Barrio Viejo this past December 18, 2012. Eric Ochoa, middle, carries an olla or bowl to make a safe path for Mary and Joseph during the walk.
- A.E. Araiza/ Arizona Daily Star
Built in 1931, the San Cosme Chapel is an adobe structure that stands south of the new Fire Central, background left, and is on West Simpson Street. It is mostly cared for by the parishioners of downtown's San Augustine Cathedral some of whom live in the surrounding barrio. Structures like the chapel, El Tiradito and Elysian Grove Market as well as some of the residences say a lot about the character of the places and people that live in Barrio Viejo.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Built in the 1920s the Elysian Grove Market started as a marketplace where it is said students from across the street at Carrillo School bought candy. Over the years the adobe building has evolved into a residence with remnants of its past that includes a large meat locker. It also has floors that may have come from Bear Down Gym and it has a small basement.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Ray Martinez, a volunteer at La Pilita Museum, talks about some of the homes and people that live in Barrio Viejo near the Tucson Convention Center. Home to much history and lore it is the cradle for some families that have lived in the area for generations. It is where the past and present meet and where culture and architecture varies as does the diversity of those living in the neighborhood creating a unique flavor that says....Tucson.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
This is the exterior of La Pilita Museum in Barrio Viejo near the Tucson Convention Center. It is a place where history and many legends involving the neighborhood are embraced. Volunteers provide information on the people who lived in the area and on the local landmarks that still exist including El Tiradito, San Cosme, Teatro Carmen and Carrillo School.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
This is one of the informational displays at La Pilita Museum that features Leopoldo Carrillo who once owned a lot of the property that currently makes up Barrio Viejo. The wealthy rancher and businessman created Carrillo Gardens, Tucson's first public park. The eight acres were surrounded with hundreds of peach trees as well as grape vines, pomegranates and apricot trees. Three spring-fed ponds provided water for the vegetation, bath houses, restaurants, dance houses and more creating an oasis for the people of Tucson.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
The shrine known as El Tiradito is a place where people light candles and leave notes in the hope that their prayers may be answered. According to legend, It is dedicated to a man involved in a love triangle who died on the spot more than 150 years ago.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Prayers or confessions scrawled on the shrine known as El Tiradito are not uncommon. It is a place where people light candles and leave notes in the hope that their prayers may be answered.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
A slip of paper that may bear a prayer of thanks, a confession or a message of hope is tucked away inside a crevice in the adobe wall at El Tiradito, a shrine next to La Pilita Museum.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
This is the home of Ray Martinez a volunteer at La Pilita Museum who lives a couple blocks away on South Otero Avenue in Barrio Viejo.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Long-time residents Alice Riesgo Galvan and her son Fernando Antonio Galvan sit on a piece of furniture that belonged to her late husband's grandmother as they talk about some of the homes, memories and people that live in Barrio Viejo.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Sentinel Peak, also known as "A" Mountain, rises in the distance not far from the home of long-time residents Alice Riesgo Galvan and her son Fernando Antonio Galvan who live in Barrio Viejo.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Built some 40 years ago this home on South Elias Avenue is the residence of Tania Rhodes and Ashley Stinnett in Barrio Viejo. Its traditional style blends in with some of the homes in the area.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
This is the front door at the home of Tania Rhodes and Ashley Stinnett on South Elias Avenue in Barrio Viejo.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Open ceilings, brightly colored walls and floors plus beams that are said to come from the Santa Catalina Mountains add character to the the living room at the home of Tania Rhodes and Ashley Stinnett on South Elias Avenue.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
This is the massage studio and occasional guest room at the home of Tania Rhodes and Ashley Stinnett on South Elias Avenue.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
A skylight allows plenty of light to brighten the bedroom at the home of Tania Rhodes and Ashley Stinnett on South Elias Avenue.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Chickens, something that may have been a more common sight in Barrio Viejo in years gone by, now occupy a small area at the home Tania Rhodes and Ashley Stinnett.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
From around 1914 to 1922 Teatro Carmen was an elegant theater in Barrio Viejo. In its day it was a venue for Spanish language productions that included operas, musicals and melodramas.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Named after Leopoldo Carrillo, Carrillo K-5 Magnet School is located in the area once known as Carrillo Gardens, the city's first park. There were some eight acres of spring-fed artificial lakes, gardens and a recreation center. Since 1937 the students at Carrillo have been enacting Las Posadas with a procession. A few days before Christmas the students dress in colorful peasant costumes and walk through Barrio Viejo. For generations, families and community members have walked with the children singing traditional songs.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Dominic Samaniego leads the procession during 76th annual Las Posadas at Carrillo K- 5 Magnet School in historic Barrio Viejo this past December 18, 2012. Eric Ochoa, middle, carries an olla or bowl to make a safe path for Mary and Joseph during the walk.
- A.E. Araiza/ Arizona Daily Star
Built in 1931, the San Cosme Chapel is an adobe structure that stands south of the new Fire Central, background left, and is on West Simpson Street. It is mostly cared for by the parishioners of downtown's San Augustine Cathedral some of whom live in the surrounding barrio. Structures like the chapel, El Tiradito and Elysian Grove Market as well as some of the residences say a lot about the character of the places and people that live in Barrio Viejo.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Built in the 1920s the Elysian Grove Market started as a marketplace where it is said students from across the street at Carrillo School bought candy. Over the years the adobe building has evolved into a residence with remnants of its past that includes a large meat locker. It also has floors that may have come from Bear Down Gym and it has a small basement.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Remnants of the old meat locker, right, now serves as the kitchen at the former Elysian Grove Market. The stairway, middle, leads to the basement below. It also has floors that may have come from Bear Down Gym.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
This is a detail of the meat locker showing the kitchen in the background.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Atyana Walker, 6, and her cat Daisy, sit on the bed located in the basement of the former Elysian Grove Market. Now a residence it was built in the 1920s where it started as a marketplace.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
A sign for the Elysian Grove Market is in the back yard near an enormous tree. Built in the 1920s it started as a marketplace where it is said students from across the street at Carrillo School bought candy.
- A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
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