1925: Actual filming of Zane Grey’s “Vanishing American� began Monday at Tuba City. Thirty-four tons of equipment, including six cannons and several caissons, came Sunday. Sixty-five motion picture players arrived, making a total of 150 people now on location on the reservation, including Lois Wilson, Richard Dix and Noah Beery, the stars. Beery, accompanied by his wife and son, drove over. Bill Sykes, director, accompanied him. Three weeks will be spent at Tuba, after which the troupe will be transferred to Sega Canyon. The equipment, unloaded from freight cars here, took every available truck for transportation to Tuba.
Editor Chris Etling takes you behind the scenes of just one example of how we look through archives for information used in the Flagstaff History column.
Iggy Lemcke, 2, feels the music as she dances during the Concert in the Park at the newly opened Cleo Murdoch Park earlier this month. The community series, which is put on by the City of Flagstaff, takes place at different parks each week.
Community members enjoy listening to music in the sunshine during the Concert in the Park at the newly opened Cleo Murdoch Park next to the Murdoch Center.
Hattie Loper, Arizona Daily Sun
Susan Johnson has lived in Flagstaff for over 30 years and loves to delve into her adopted hometown’s past. She has written two books for the History Press, Haunted Flagstaff and Flagstaff’s Walkup Family Murders, and, with her son Nick, manages Freaky Foot Tours. You’ll find her hiking the trails with her corgi, Shimmer.
All events were taken from issues of the Arizona Daily Sun and its predecessors, the Coconino Weekly Sun and the Coconino Sun.
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