© by Ron Heberlee, Phoenix AZ 2008

People & Places of Phoenix page

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Jacque Mercer, Arizona's Miss America 1949

Everett Lowe photo

Jacque Mercer 1949

Holsum Bakery 1928, Everett R. Lowe on left

 

Union Station 9 Ave. & Van Buren. Everett Lowe

Union Oil tanker in Phoenix 1934

By The Sea c.1953

North High School sorority Psi Sigma pledge dance. Sent by Janet Burroway, front row, second from right. Janet went to Emerson.

Emerson Grammar School

7th St. and Palm Lane.

Emerson School, now converted to an office building.

Mary Snipes, Emerson 8th grade

Photo taken in 1950.

Ronnie Heberlee at Emerson. Look at those cuffs.

Barbara Ann Thomason, went to Emerson 1951, moved to California and won 17 straight beauty contests.

Photo taken in 1958

Emerson 7th grade 1949

Ronnie Heberlee, George Lackey, Gary Hensley, Miller Lee, Tommy Neher, Back Row: Reed Perkins, Virgil Myers, John Mehagian, John Lindsay, Mrs. Rose, Jack Brokaw, Andy Limber, Henry Jaret

Emerson 7th grade 1949

Marcia Nelson, Jean Parlette, Mary Jane Van Doren, Mary Jo Gonzalo, Joyce Emery, Lois Ann Thayer. Middle Row: Dolores Rowe, Wanita Mead, Joyce Wackerbarth. Back Row: Janet Munro, Janet Burroway, Patsy Kane, Sally Esler, Shirley Bentley, Frances Bone.

Remember the 'man on the street' that took photos? You sent in the ticket and for $1 you got your photo.

My house being built 1907

Photo from Bob Bennett. That is his mom third from left..

My house in 1947

114 E. Roosevelt. The house next door on 2nd St. was a branch of the library.

Orley Iles, my piano teacher

Here I am with my '51 two-tone purple Ford.

I still don't believe I did that.

My dad and stepmom at Disneyland 1958

Monsanto House

Nelda Ashford 1950

Nelda worked at the Fox Theater.

Clarence Ellington and his Cenrtal Ave. Dairy milk wagon 1926.

Sent by Sandra Ellington-Freeman

Foster's Freeze 1951.

12th Street and McDowell.

This little girl is spoiled.

Who can forget the Hula Hoop craze in 1958?

Cool Guys 1950

Kenilworth Drugs.

Everything in this area was named for the Kenilworth subdivison. This is on 3rd Ave. and Roosevelt. It was later Ryan Evans Drugs.

Louise & Harvey Jones, Phoenix 1920

Andy Waldron in 1958 with Jacque Holder and '50 Merc deep metallic purple, Shrine Auditorium.

Don and Jane Norton, '52 Merc (1958)

Late 1930's Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Sent by Sunnyslope resident Betty Dreste when she lived in Illinois.

1958 Christmas in Phoenix

Jack Kamrar and Mary Evans married at Brophy Chapel in 1936. They put dry ice on their dashboard and set off on their honeymoon.

Karen Kamrar 1955

Monopoly at the Kamrar's 1950's

Jack Kamrar, Kiddieland Train, Encanto Park 1950's.

kiddieland, Encanto Park c.1950

 

Phoenix coffee shop

Little Digger sports car

High school Navy day

Beeline

Manzanita

Phoenix raceway

Encanto pool

Near Glendale High School

Sky Harbor

Kruft Dairy 1950's

Downtown Goldwater's models

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Phoenix c.1955

Governor McFarland

Bud Brown's Barn

Pat Thorson, Goddess of the Sun, Masque of the Yellow Moon 1955

Biggest 16mm projector

Phoenix women and Coca Cola

These are 1955 Fords but really strange side decoration

Miss Arizona 1956

Sadie Hawkins Day at North High

North High

Giants, Phoenix Municipal Stadium

West High

Manzanita

Vic Hanny, on the right I believe

Annual coyote, jackrabbit hunt 1939. Note kids with sticks.

Children's Home painted in 4 minutes flat, with brushes, 1950

 

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