History & Business Connect
Connect your business to Tucson's and/or Arizona history
- Are you housed in a historic building
- Does your building use building style or materials reflect area history
- Is anyone in your company a Tucson or Arizona native or have family members that are
- What is the history of your business type in the framework of Arizona history
- Do you serve foods using native seeds or local historic roots
- Do your walls have a place for a picture featuring Local history
- Highlight What can your business do for the area's future
- Adopt a favorite event or theme from Arizona history and use it to:
- PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS and your COMMUNITY
ARBUCKLE'S COFFEE (example)
began in the post Civil War Era of the 19th Century. Two brothers, John and Charles Arbuckle, initiated a new concept in the coffee industry; selling roasted coffee in one pound packages. Until that time, coffee was sold green and had to be roasted in a skillet over a fire or in a wood stove. You can imagine the inconsistency of the coffee. One burned bean ruined the whole batch.
A new location will open soon inside the Arizona History Museum on 2nd street near the U OF A campus.
SAVING A COPPER DOME
HOTEL CONGRESS downtown
Across from the historic railroad depot
Bank robber John Dillinger's gang was here 1930's
"Built in 1918, the original "Congress Hotel" was heralded in the local paper at the time as the southwest’s first "flatiron" hotel, owing to the triangular shape of the building and the plot of land upon which it sits. The railroad adjacent hotel aimed to serve the expanding number of passengers heading west on the then Southern Pacific line.
A 1918 advertisement offering a "most cordial" invitation to "visit and inspect" the new hotel boasted that it was "Tucson’s newest and most elegantly appointed hosterly" and that its furniture was "exquisite and in good taste, and the conveniences are such as to fulfil the requirements of all."
But a basement fire in 1934 destroyed much of the building (and led to the capture of several members of famed bank robber John Dillinger’s gang—which is now memorialized in the hotel’s annual "Dillinger Days" festival)."
From article by Hank Stephenson, Special to The Explorer Newspaper article July 19, 2017
