Tag Archives: Arizona

“Squaw Tit” Mountain, Arizona

This image is of an otherwise unnamed peak along the route of Highway 66 through Arizona. The name listed on the postcard is not traceable in any current maps that show landforms with this name in this location, and the only current feature that had this name was far to the south of the route for Highway 66.
Such names were often used to provide tourists some local color to the otherwise bleak landscape, and it is quite likely that this name was not officially associated with this peak. Most such names were changed to less offensive and more Native American traditional names.
This postcard dates from the 1940s.

Colorado River Bridges, Gold Run, Ariz.

This image continues the current theme one additional day, showing the new Highway 66 bridge across the Colorado River in Arizona.

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The site is closer to the California city of Needles, since the Colorado forms the boundary between the two states. The large sign in the center of the photo may be a boundary sign, which welcomes travelers to the state as they cross the state line.
There is no description on the back. This card dates from the 1940s.

More Hairpin Curves, Highway 66, Gold Road, Arizona

This features another example of a subject popular at the time: highway construction in the intermountain west. This image not only shows the sinuous path of the legendary Highway 66 through the Arizona desert, but also, at the right, a long turnout to the top of a hill. This was no doubt graded to allow travelers a chance to stop and take pictures from the hilltop.
This card has no description on the back, just a stamped indication of where to write your address and message. It likely dates from the 1940s.

Route 66 Hairpin Curves, Arizona

This picture features a common subject of the west in the early post World War 2 period: pictures of highway construction. Among the favorites were pictures like this, of winding roads that climbed and descended complex mountain and valley routes.
This picture appears to have been taken near the side road that led to the Gold Road mine. The color in the upper center is a printing error for this image.
There is no description on the back of this card, but the image dates from the 1940s.

Gold Road Mining Town, Arizona

This week we visit Gold Road, as it was known, that ran through Arizona in the mid-20th Century.
Gold Road was a ghost town that remained of a gold mining operation in Arizona, whose access road branched off of Route 66, as shown in this picture. It had its own Post office until 1942, and was completely demolished in 1949.
There is no description on the back of this picture. The cars indicate this picture was taken in the 1940s before the town was razed.

Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona, Arizona

Pictured is a winter scene of the picturesque mountains and landscape of Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona.

Bradshaw Distributing Co., Box 720, Sedona, Arizona


The description on the back states:
Winter’s blanket of white contrasts with the Red Cliffs of Oak Creek Canyon.
This postcard was mailed, and the postmark is 7 June 1965. I sent it as a child to my great-aunt Dorcas Jacokes just after our family visited the Petrified Forest, Arizona on our way to California that summer.