Three Rivers Historical Society Newsletters

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2020 issue – SALUTE TO VETERANS: Bob Ketchham, Kenneth Semmler, Richard John Stucky; Miguel Bejarano, Del Castillo Family, Bob Schulke, Five Aragon Sons, Graham Family; Gold Star Family designation; Litchfield Park’s WW2 Memorials; A Request for Political Asylum

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2020 issue – The Sunday Drive; Three Rivers Mourns; Avondale’s Doctor; D.J. Burton – Lifetime Member; Francis W. Donnell; Trinidad Swilling – Mother of Phoenix; History of Toilet Paper

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2020 issue – The Long Road to Arizona Statehood; Crop-Dusting in the West Valley; Farewell, Coach Fulton; Westwood Manor – Park Shadows; We Love Old Photos; JoAnn Gongaware, President

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2020 issue – The History of Luke Air Force Base; Who Remembers “Duck and Cover”?; Operation “Haylift-Snowbound”, 1949; Thank You, Liftime Members; The Methodist Church in Avondale; Elton Roy “Tony” Schneider; Monopoly Goes to War

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2019 issue – Grand Canyon National Park at 100; From Stagecoaches to Spacecraft; Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. President; Bob Schulke, Liftime Member; A Trip Down Memory Lane; Mid-Air Collision near Avondale

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2019 issue – German POWs Here; The Little Airport That Could; Sincere Thanks to Flite Center; The Annexation Wars; Jean Stewart: Artist, Historian, Literary Advocate; Arizona vs. California, Part 4 of 4

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2019 issue – Arizona’s Early Mail Service; Coming Soon – Exhibit at the Litchfield Museum; The Blue Angels; Society Mourns the Loss of Bill Arnold and Patrick Neely; “Mother of Buckeye”; Arizona vs. California, Part 3 of 4

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2019 issue – Elliott Freireich – Publisher and Race Driver; Three Rivers Society is 15 Years Old; The Stranger; Early Sheep Ranching Family: the Espils; Upcoming Speakers; Arizona vs. California, Part 2 of 4

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2018 issue – Billy Moore Days, 1954-2018; Burrowing Owls; Historical Happy Hour at Roman’s Oasis; Water Wars – Part 1 of 4; “Swaggies” Display by 3RHS and LPHS; Thank You, Brian Day and Family; Balloon Girls

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2018 issue – The Bracero Program in the West Valley; Arizona Rangers; Society Takes Advantage of Display Opportunities; Early Memories – Jo Ann Beck Gongaware; T.C. “Doc” Rhodes; Summer Hiatus – September Kick-Off; The Silent Generation

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2018 issue – Welcome New Board Members; Williams AZ, Named for Bill Williams; The Gadsden Purchase; Educating Arizona’s Children; Tom Bulfer, Master Watchmaker and Businessman; Some Interesting Facts about Tolleson; 1910 Postcard from Michigan; Sponsors of the Quarterly; The WASPs; Letters to the Editor

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2018 issue – The Society Debuts New Display; Do You Remember?; Barry Goldwater’s Military Service; Floods in the Southwest Valley; “Los Campos” Book Now Available; Advice from an Old Farmer; Message from the Board of Directors

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2017 issue – 2012 Gallery 37 Art Project Finds a Home; Memories of Phoenix Trotting Park; Avondale Street Names Honor its Pioneers; Civil War Battlefield – In Arizona?; I Never Thought I’d See the Day!; Flags of Arizona

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2017 issue – 3RHS Ice Cream Social and Program; An Immigrant Story; The Salt and Verde Rivers; Welcome New Lifetime Member; Goodyear Incorporates – 1946; Arizona’s Trouble with Governors; Yard Sale – We Need Your Donations; Letters to the Editor

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2017 issue – Three Rivers Elects Officers; Historic Photos in Our Community; Perryville AZ; Historic Happy Hour; State of the Society; Our History-Our Rivers;v Membership

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2017 issue – The Sociology of the Clothesline; Avondale Celebrates 70th Birthday; We Seek Your War Stories;, The Birth of Estrella Mountain Regional Park; We Are Missing Issues of Wingfoot Clan and Billy Moore Days Programs; Early Visitors to the Grand Canyon; Wartime Telephone Service

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2016 issue – In The Beginning: Three Rivers Historical Society; Route 66; Arizona’s First 100 Years; “Paving of West Van Buren to Litchfield Drive to Start”; Wild Horses of Arizona; Thanks for Membership Renewals

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2016 issue – Frank Ross Receives Lifetime Service Award; Young Japanese Child Survives Atom Bomb Blast; A Town is Born; Cecil’s Hideaway; The Doctor, the Dentist and the Drugstore

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2016 issue – Farewell to Past President John M. Leach; A Fashion Show to Remember; The Phoenix Buckeye Railroad; Bubble Houses of Litchfield Park; Jean Stewart; Three Rivers Board Re-elected; Arizona Women Get the Vote

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2016 issue – Good-bye to a Faithful Friend – Don Jones; Black Widow Spiders; Message from the President; Phoenix-Goodyear Airport Mark 75th Anniversary; New Exhibits at Litchfield Park Historical Society Museum; Goodyear Aircraft Builds More than Blimps; Grateful for Simpler Times

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2015 issue – Good-bye Beeline Drag Strip; Silvestre S. Herrera – War Hero; The Volunteer Fire Department; Avondale Elementary School – A School for Pioneers; A Glimpse into the Early Life of Marty Robbins; The Final Inspection; Annual Membership Reminder; Letters to the Editor

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2015 issue – A War Story; Paralysis Warning by Dr. Enfield; 1943 Revival Leads to First Southern Baptist Church; Black Bear Diner; Rags to Riches – Marty Robbins; Heroes Among Us; Those Good Old Camel Days

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2015 issue – Hero is Agua Fria High Scholl’s Favorite teacher; Buffalo Soldiers in Arizona; Leading the Way Since 1971; Litchfield High School’s “Kissing Tree” Finds New Home; New Officers for 2015; Oh Boy, There’s a Yard Sale; Boys Scouts of America; The Society is on Facebook

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2015 issue – Photo of Early Goodyear Sign Found; Traveling Trevails in the 1920’s; Newly Renovated Buckeye Museum is a Must See; 1929 – Goodyear Aircraft Returns to Goodyear; Laws That Settled the West; Lockheed Martin – Goodyear Aerospace Treasures; Reminiscing with Nelson Chaffin; The Society is on Facebook

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2014 issue – NASCAR’s Air Force, Fire Engulfs Tolleson Tank Farm; The People Who Produce the “Quarterly”; Sixty Years Ago; Coldwater Commercial Company; Estrella Mountain’s Big Horn Sheep; Rosie the Riveters; Hubbell Trading Post

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2014 issue – Arizona’s First Air Conditioned Mall, in Goodyear; Growing Up; WW II Memories of a Five Year Old; Reader’s Contest Winner Announced; Arizona’s Japanese Internment Camps; Advice from a Old Farmer; More Interesting Arizona Facts; Winslow International Airport.

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2014 issue – Welcome Bill Arnold, President; Centennial Trail Update; Litchfield Park Historical Society Museum; Dr. Lattie Coor; Pueblo Grande; Soil Conservation & Water in the West Valley; Signing the Praises of 4-H Clubs; Reader’s Contest; Interesting Arizona Facts

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2014 issue– Billy Moore Days – 55 Years of Fun; What is a Cowboy?; The Gadsden Purchase; Wise and Witty Sayings; Avondale Circle, 1944; The Gila River; Remember the Burma Shave Signs?; Verlyne Meck Recounts Buckeye’s Early Days; Video Camera Operator Needed

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2013 issue– Peggy Jones, Historian of the Year; A Tribute to Chuck Lakin; Centennial Trail – Donation of Trees; Frontier Medicine; Names of Arizona; Do You Remember 50 Years Ago?; Avondale Public Library History

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2013 issue– Our Society is 10 Years Old; 1998 – Arizona Sesquicentennial;, Mary Jo McCully – Long Time Resident; S & H Green Stamps; The Coldwater Steamer; The Fabulous ’50s; Airline Restaurant in the 1940s

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2013 issue– Building with Adobe, Jim King, H.S. Casey – Early Rancher, Centennial Trail Update, Memories Are Made of This, Perryville Drag Strip, Tale of Two Cities Parade, Wickenburg – Maricopa County’s First Town

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2013 issue– Centennial Trail News, Our Society Needs a Treasurer, Three Rivers is Busy This Fall, Liberty School Responds to Victims of the Dust Bowl, Ronald R. Wood, a Man Who Loved the Soil & His Community, Litchfield Park Historical Society Museum, 3RHS Mourns the Death of Ray Shuey, Our Family Car – 1940 Studebaker, Businessman’s Coupe

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2012 issue– Ed Buonvecchio Named Historian of The Year, Merchant Takes Care of Soldiers, A Little Tail About the Trail, Westside Memories, The Great Horned Owl, Arizona’s Bandstand, The Hill/Baker Families in Coldwater/Avondale 1899-2007, Where Have All the Salt Cedar Gone?, Barbara B. Robey

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2012 issue– Memories are Made of These, Indian School Road, Westside Young Lady Wins Miss America Pageant, Three Rivers Yard Sale-October 20, Volunteer “Tammywackers”, The 1940’s-Dominated by World War II, Reader’s Contest, Historic Flag Donated to the Society, Remembering Arizona’s 50th Anniversary

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2012 issue– Arizona’s Territorial Day, Russell Killip-Growing up in Goodyear, Palmatier Park Art Project, Centennial Trail Groundbreaking, Centennial Trail Groundbreaking, Memories are Made of This

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2012 issue– Arizona at 100, New Livestock to Cashion, Cookbook – A Taste of History, Roosevelt Dam and Reliable Water, First Drive-Through Bank Teller, Centennial Trail Groundbreaking, Flight Officer Gene Autry, Bell Returns to St. Thomas Aquinas, Christ Evangelical Church

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2011 issue– The Church at Litchfield Park, An Airman Remembers Luke, A Taste of History, Frances Ybarra Amabisca, Gloria King-Historian of the Year 2010, Centennial Trail Gets Support, The Oasis Drive In, Gay Sanders Turner Wins “Do You Remember?

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2011 issue– Frank Luke “Arizona Balloon Buster”, Floods in the Desert, Tollson Led the Way to School Segregation How Phoenix Got Its Name, Farewell to Jewel Wood, Centenial Trail Update, Cecil R. Palmateer Served Goodyear Farms & the Town of Goodyear, Give Us Your Best Recipes

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2011 issue– Operation Haylift – Snowbound 1949, Society Centennial Project, Luke AFB 70th Anniversary, A Tale of Two Towns Named Goodyear, Lucy Tolleson Whyman Bohne, Bill Bedoya – Native Son – Avondale Mayor, How Did Arizona Get Its Name?

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2011 issue– WASPs, An Old Sea Dog, Food Grows Where Water Flows, Great Escape, Tom Ludlow & Barbara Wallick Ludlow, Fort Huachuca

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2010 issue– Apprentice Farners, Tempe Normal School, Trotting Park, Wingfoot Homes, Veterans, Beeline Highway, Tolleson Library, Mosley Brothers

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2010 issue– Honoring Veterans, Morton Salt, The Boondocker, Goodyear’s First Dentist, West Valley Astronauts, Frank Ross, Aragon Brothers

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2010 issue – Arizona has Heart, Goodyear Aircraft, Westside Enterprise, Camp 52, Indianapolis of the West, Images of Goodyear book

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2010 issue – Luke Heros, Iron Curtain, Cockfighting, 1948 Fire Truck, Southwest Lending Closet, Dean & Ruby (Pugh) Baker.

Download the Oct-Nov-Dec 2009 issue – Balloon Girls, Pilot Prince, Burk & Beck families, Cotton Cotillion, Past Schools

Download the Jul-Aug-Sep 2009 issue – Ed Hazelton, Sam Garcia, TJ’s, Litchfield Park

Download the Apr-May-Jun 2009 issue – Blue Angels; Estrella Rotary; POWs

Download the Jan-Feb-Mar 2009 issue – Tom Heim; Litchfield Farms Cemetery