God Bless the USA and all who serve her.

        VINTAGE ARIZONA

 

St. Johns, Arizona, Garage and Machine Shop, circa 1910-20

THE ARIZONA NATIONAL GUARD, EARLY 1900S, MUSTER OUTSIDE FIRST BUCKEYE JAIL

Phoenix Bakery, Al Becker and Ed Eisele, now the Holsom Bakery, circa 1906, Photo by Messinger

 

Here's an early 1900s stereoview of the Salt River Valley; hard to believe this little patch of desert has just become the 5th largest city in the US.

 

 1920s Salt River Valley Shell Gasoline Luggage Label

Postcard of a covered bridge over the White River on US60 between San Carlos and Ft. Apache in Gila County, Arizona, one of the few covered bridges West of the Mississippi. 

Center Street Bridge, this postcard was sent to a soldier in 1917. 

Miami, Arizona ice storm in 1917:

1948 Arizona State Fair luggage label

The Editors

Arizona License Plate Trivia

Arizona Racing History

Cowgirl Up!

Collecting Calgary Stampede Posters

Fort Union NM

Rare Colorado License Plates

Historic Highways

Collecting Route 66

08 Spring Wildflowers

Schaut Family History

 

(C)2008, Jim and Nancy Schaut. 

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body;

but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride! ..Anon.