Note: Pete Page passed away in 2010 shortly after this article was posted in the Summer 2010 edition. We post this piece on our new website in memory of Pete and the role he played in the lives of everyone in the community who knew him best as the guy …
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County’s First Outdoor Movie opens 1950
It was the first outdoor movie theater to open in Gila County and held 400 automobiles.
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The Apache Drive In theater in Globe, Arizona will be closing for the last time on September 28th, 2013. Local media folks, Globe Miami Times will be hosting the final show, featuring American Graffiti and a line up of special events for the evening....
Read More »The Last Single Screen Drive-In Closes
This fall, Globe’s Apache Drive-In will close its gates on September 28. As the state’s last drive-in, with a capacity of just 200 cars, it has outlasted most. Within the last 25 years, Arizona has had all but two of its nearly 50 drive-ins close one by one. The Apache …
Read More »Remarkable Women of Arizona: Irene Vickery Part 3
This is a series on three remarkable women who helped to shape the Globe-Miami community and the State. While much of Sarah’s life is a matter of public record, Irene Vickrey is Globe’s mystery archaeologist, remains an enigma. Tenacious research by historian Janolyn LoVecchio reveals that she was born to …
Read More »Remarkable Women of Arizona: Sarah Sorin Part 2
This is a series on three remarkable women who helped to shape the Globe-Miami community and the State. Sarah Herring Sorin, a pioneer professional, became a lawyer in Tombstone just ten years after the O.K. Corral gunfight. Born in 1861 and educated in New York City, her father, William Herring, …
Read More »Old Globe Cemetery: The Stories. The Secrets.
If you are like many people, you might enjoy visiting old cemeteries even if you don’t have relatives there. They are a tangible link with the past and as you stroll the grounds of any old cemetery and read the headstones you can’t help but wonder about the lives lived. Linda GrossWriter, …
Read More »Remarkable Women of Arizona: Rose Mofford Part 1
This is a short series on three remarkable women who helped to shape the Globe-Miami Community and the state of Arizona. Globe’s most famous citizen, Rose Mofford, may remember the grief shared by the whole community at Vickrey’s untimely death. Born Rose Perica in Globe in 1922, her father and …
Read More »A most heinous crime in Gila County – 1910
In September 1910, the Arizona Daily Star reported a murder committed by two ex-cavalry men at an abandoned stage station in Globe. They called it one of the most heinous crimes in the history of Gila County. The two managed to escape the scene, but they could not hide for …
Read More »Tour the Old Dominion
Once upon a time, the Old Dominion was one of the most prolific copper mines, a dominant player in the national copper market and a major employer here in Globe-Miami. More than 80 years later, the site now serves as one of the few self-guided mine tours in existence, as well as a walking park, open to the public and free of charge.
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