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Embracing Tucson: The Community Center and Environs

Walking the neighborhoods surrounding and walking through the TCC (Tucson Community Center) is an education in migration, immigration, emigration, culture shifting, and urban renewal. It’s like watching a time lapse from the 1540s through the 1960s to today. And while we didn’t include it, the Gutierrez Bridge just down the block is the best illustration

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Embracing Tucson: the Southeast Corner of the U of A Campus

Sal and I try to find a walk each day that is at least a mile long and in a loop.  On this day we (re)discovered a corner of the University of Arizona campus. Usually the southeast corner of campus is considered the athletic corridor in that it features the football stadium, McKale Center (the

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Embracing Tucson: the Pioneer Hotel

It was a landmark for so many years. Then it was a place of remembrance of a tragedy. Earlier today I read a story of the history of the Pioneer Hotel. KGUN-TV’s Pat Parris interviewed the granddaughter of the Steinfields, pioneer merchants in Tucson. Mr. and Mrs. Steinfeld were 2 of the 29 victims of

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