Street Smarts
Who is that street named after? Street Smarts tells you the background behind street names and give a lot of Tucson area history in the process.
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Steele had a well-known career as director of bands for Tucson High School and later as conductor of the Tucson Pops Orchestra.
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Curly Bill Brocius has a misspelled street named for him on Tucson's southeast side.
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49 years after King's assassination, longtime Tucsonans are sharing rich but little-known memories of his visits to the Old Pueblo.
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Founder of Arizona Land Title & Trust Co., he also was involved in developing early housing for Hughes Aircraft employees and Green Valley retirees.
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Anway Road is named for pioneer family that settled in 1919 in the farming community known as Postvale — now Marana.
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If not for Fort Lowell's longtime connection to the Boy Scouts, the abandoned, historic post might have been razed for housing in the 1940s.
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Oracle Road wouldn't have its mystical Greek name if a New Brunswick teen hadn't ridden a famed clipper ship in the 1850s.
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"Burt" Alvord's wild-west life was peppered with gun battles and train robberies as he ultimately worked both sides of the law.
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John Harrison also developed subdivision for African-American soldiers returning from war.
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The area where Fred Roberts sold lots, near Alvernon Way and Fifth Street, was considered too far out to work.
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Yale Epstein was born to Harry and Bessie Epstein on June 24, 1919, near Toronto, Canada. He was born in Canada because his parents were tempo…
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Before he was governor, Sam Goddard developed subdivision with large lots, big setbacks
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Pima County's "Road #55" was changed to Cloud Road soon after it was built in 1922.
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Salvaged bell was originally part of the USS Arizona, hit hard during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Former UA president Koffler started development to keep former academics, executives sharp.
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"Red" Russell started the power company - and had a business selling electrical supplies from the lobby
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Businessman Columbus Glasmann was brewer, saloon keeper, rancher, manager and real estate investor.
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News of possible Hughes Aircraft plant sparked land rush that benefitted sleepy Tucson
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One is east-west, the other north-south, but in early Tucson they were one and the same.
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"I never heard anything from (people who knew Earp) about any of the good or great deeds that he is supposed to have done," Roy Drachman said.
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News in 1911 that Tucson would be the terminal of the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad led to public celebration and congratulation.
