Happy 100th Birthday, Arizona!

[tundramanq]

"Come to this land of sunshine
To this land where life is young.
Where the wide, wide world is waiting,
(For) The songs that will now be sung."

State song I remember, before the "I love you AZ" (50's & 60's)

Raised in Winslow and Holbrook. Thanks for the memories.

Found the tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w7LM_Vm_YE
Full lyrics are below

[MacBean]

Aravaipa canyon. No path, you have to walk up the river bed. This in late December, is stunning.

[macwilkin]

"Come to this land of sunshine
To this land where life is young.
Where the wide, wide world is waiting,
(For) The songs that will now be sung."

State song I remember, before the "I love you AZ" (50's & 60's)

Raised in Winslow and Holbrook. Thanks for the memories.

Found the tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w7LM_Vm_YE
Full lyrics are below

It's still the state anthem; Rex Allen Jr's tribute is the state song.

T.

[tundramanq]

I found that out. But your post got me scrambling on-line - I thought my memory was shot.

MacBean - a lifetime isnt enough time to see all the beauty that is Arizona.
I gave up using my camera to take slides after trying to capture the magic and Magnitude of the Grand Canyon.
It just won't fit on film. It requires ALL your senses.

Darn - I'm homesick - I live in Albuquerque NM - time for a little road trip?

[tundramanq]

This is all I have left of this sign on the east end of Winslow that my dad designed and built in the early 50s - the rockwork had a lot of petrified wood in it - wind finally got it around 1980.




The Jackrabbit sign that he designed and built is still standing 60 years later:


A lot of the commerical art on Route 66 in northern Arizona was his, mostly done in the 50s before the good old lead based paint took his health and eventually his life in the early 60s. They just didnt know then. But the indian head paint still looks pretty good for 40 years of sun and sand damage.