by stiles • • Comments Off on Herb Ringer’s American West: ROAMING ARIZONA in the 1950s
HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High Plains. We…
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HOLE “N” THE ROCK 1950 The Dream of Albert Christensen, Hole N the Rock, is still open 7 days a week FOR MORE ON HOLE N THE ROCK, FOLLOW THESE LINKS… THE UNITY MONUMENT: The ‘Hole n” the Rock’ Creator’s…
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Visitation at The Grand Canyon approached 5 million in 2014 and the numbers are expected to go even higher this year. But in the 1950s, in the years just after World War II, the pace was a lot slower. Here…
by stiles • • Comments Off on Ken Sleight Remembers, Part 3: The Early 1950s, War and the Longing for Red Rocks.
At twenty-one years of age, in 1950, I went through a hellish year, as national and international events seemed to pull me into areas in which I had little control. Distractions were many. Continuous war talk left my mind immobilized,…