Photo gallery: Rodeo history
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A look at the history of the Tucson rodeo.
Sheriff's deputies escorted Elvis Presley to his car after a press conference at the Tucson Rodeo Grounds in June 1956. From the book "Jack Sheaffer's Tucson 1945-1965."
Copyright 1996 The Arizona Daily Star
Organization:PCG/Sheriff's Department; Location:Tucson Rodeo Grounds; Event:Press Conference;
People: Elvis Presley
6/8/06
JACK SHEAFFER / THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR 1956 - Sheriff's deputies escort Elvis Presley to his car after a press conference at the Tucson Rodeo Grounds in June of 1956. It was his first visit to the Old Pueblo.
- Jack Sheaffer
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clowns professional rodoe entertainer and bullfighter Chuck Henson tunes his guitar before a performance in the arena at the Tucson Rodeo. Chuck Henson has been performing at rodoes since 1949. Photo by Joshua Trujillo. Neg.#85779. Photo taken on 2/25/2000.
Copyright 1996 The Arizona Daily Star
Location:Rodeo Grounds; Event:Performance; Identity:Clown; PLS:Rodeo;
People: Chuck Henson
75th Annual Tucson Rodeo
FEBRUARY 18, 2005 B5
Joshua Trujillo / Arizona Daily Star 2000 - Henson, like many cowboys before him, included guitar strumming among his many talents.
- Joshua Trujillo
Citizen Photo Feb. 24, 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Otto R. Eicher (in noose) were welcomed to Tucson's Fiesta de los Vaqueros in traditional western style today, as the city's Vigilantes and Barbara Bell, a rodeo princess, told them to reach for the sky on Interstate 10-and stick around for five days, courtesy of the City of Tucson and Tucson Jaycees. The Eichers, from Sandusky, Ohio, were selected at random.
- TUCSON CITIZEN
While appearing at the Tucson Rodeo in February 1957, Rex Allen, star of television's "Frontier Doctor" series, examined an 8-week-old cougar cub from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. Dorothy Jones, Allen's teacher when he was a boy in Willcox, watched with some of her students from Davis School.
- JACK SHEAFFER
It looked like army day in this section of rodeo arena boxes as Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of World War expeditionary forces, and friends watched cowboy show. "X" at lower left indicates the place where a crazed bucking bronco later plunged its head through the fence.
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The rodeo queen, Joan Moore, appeared at the 1958 opening of the new Woolworth's in downtown Tucson (at Pennington and Congress.) With the rodeo queen is Roy Miller, left, president of the Tucson Retail Trade Bureau, and Jack Bingham, right, the store's manager.
- JACK SHEAFFER
Sheriff's deputies escorted Elvis Presley to his car after a press conference at the Tucson Rodeo Grounds in June 1956. From the book "Jack Sheaffer's Tucson 1945-1965."
Copyright 1996 The Arizona Daily Star
Organization:PCG/Sheriff's Department; Location:Tucson Rodeo Grounds; Event:Press Conference;
People: Elvis Presley
6/8/06
JACK SHEAFFER / THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR 1956 - Sheriff's deputies escort Elvis Presley to his car after a press conference at the Tucson Rodeo Grounds in June of 1956. It was his first visit to the Old Pueblo.
- Jack Sheaffer
Neg~85779;
No Title
clowns professional rodoe entertainer and bullfighter Chuck Henson tunes his guitar before a performance in the arena at the Tucson Rodeo. Chuck Henson has been performing at rodoes since 1949. Photo by Joshua Trujillo. Neg.#85779. Photo taken on 2/25/2000.
Copyright 1996 The Arizona Daily Star
Location:Rodeo Grounds; Event:Performance; Identity:Clown; PLS:Rodeo;
People: Chuck Henson
75th Annual Tucson Rodeo
FEBRUARY 18, 2005 B5
Joshua Trujillo / Arizona Daily Star 2000 - Henson, like many cowboys before him, included guitar strumming among his many talents.
- Joshua Trujillo
Citizen Photo Feb. 24, 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Otto R. Eicher (in noose) were welcomed to Tucson's Fiesta de los Vaqueros in traditional western style today, as the city's Vigilantes and Barbara Bell, a rodeo princess, told them to reach for the sky on Interstate 10-and stick around for five days, courtesy of the City of Tucson and Tucson Jaycees. The Eichers, from Sandusky, Ohio, were selected at random.
- TUCSON CITIZEN
While appearing at the Tucson Rodeo in February 1957, Rex Allen, star of television's "Frontier Doctor" series, examined an 8-week-old cougar cub from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. Dorothy Jones, Allen's teacher when he was a boy in Willcox, watched with some of her students from Davis School.
- JACK SHEAFFER
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Herb Wagner, spokesman for the 85th annual La Fiesta de los Vaqueros parade, said the parade accompanying the Sri Lanka festival Esala Perahera - held annually in July or August - is the world's largest and longest-running non-mechanized procession. Thus, Tucson's rodeo parade, which for years billed itself as the world's largest, non-motorized procession may be just the largest in the United States.
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