Arizona Memory Project

Oral History with Ruth Glass, January 13, 2011
Glass, Ruth
Tucson (Ariz.); Animal rights activists; Cooperative stores; Political activists
Ruth Glass was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920. As a young mother Ms. Glass moved to Tucson, Arizona for the benefit of her youngest son, who suffered from a debilitating asthma. This interview chronicles her life in Arizona. After years as...

Oral History with James Haboush, January 27, 2011
Haboush, James
Mental Health-Arizona; Phoenix (Ariz.); Photography; Art
James C. Haboush is a an artist, a musician, and a writer who came to Phoenix from Los Angeles in 1986. Mr. Haboush has a mental illness and uses his interview to talk about the situation of the homeless and mentally ill in Phoenix, their...

Oral History with Guillermo Matus and Mike Yourgules, December 7, 2010
Matus, Guillermo; Yourgules, Mike
Patagonia (Ariz.); Mining camps--Arizona--History; Patagonia (Ariz.)--Biography; Mowry Mine (Ariz.); Patagonia Mine (Ariz.); Ranching--Arizona--History; Ghost towns--Arizona; Patagonia (Ariz.)--Social life and customs
Mike Yourgules and Guillermo “Memo” Matus are longtime residents of Patagonia. Both men grew up in the area, and have held various jobs throughout the region. In this interview, the two men talk about growing up and working in Santa Cruz...

Oral History with Pat Call, March 16, 2011
Call, Pat
Cochise County (Ariz.); Cochise County (Ariz.). Board of Supervisors; Cochise County (Ariz.). Dept. of Planning and Zoning; Sierra Vista (Ariz.); Fort Huachuca (Ariz.); Water rights--Arizona; Watershed management; San Pedro River Watershed (Mexico...
Pat Call is the District One Chairman of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors is the governing and policy-making body of the Cochise County. Mr. Call is a long-time resident of Sierra Vista, who returned to the city in...

Oral History with Basilio Aja, March 3, 2011
Aja, Basilio; Aja, Irene
Buckeye (Ariz.); Sheep--Arizona; Ash Fork (Ariz.)
Basilio Aja has been a resident of Buckeye, Arizona for sixty years. In his interview he talks of his childhood, education, and family. Both of his parents immigrated from Spain. Mr. Aja discusses his family’s involvement in the sheep industry...

Oral History with Connie Bailey, May 20, 2011
Bailey, Connie
Buckeye (Ariz.); General Federation of Women's Clubs;
Connie Bailey is the former president of the Buckeye Women’s Club and Executive Director of the Buckeye Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Bailey talks of her personal history. In her interview she discusses the history of Buckeye, Arizona and the Buckeye...

Oral History with Salomón Baldenegro, February 13, 2011
Baldenegro, Salomón
Tucson (Ariz.); Chicano movement--Arizona--Tucson
Salomón R. Baldenegro was a lead organizer in the grassroots Chicano movement on the West Side of Tucson, Arizona during the 1970s. In his interview he discusses the activities of the Mazaria Council and the Centro Chicano in Barrio Hollywood. Mr....

Oral History with Betty Jo Benton, March 8, 2011
Benton, Betty Jo
Betty Jo Benton spent her early years in Phoenix before moving to California. She relates her mother’s time as a violinist with the predecessor to the Phoenix Symphony. Mrs. Benton moved back to the city in 1949 with her husband, Robert Benton,...

Oral History with Martha Jane Bruemmer, April 19, 2011
Bruemmer, Martha Jane
Gadsden (Ariz.); San Luis (Ariz.); Yuma County (Ariz.); Post Offices--Arizona--Gadsden; Sharecropper; School buses--anecdotes;
Martha Jane (Guthrie) Bruemmer and family have been long time residents of Gadsden, Arizona. Ms. Bruemmer's paternal grandparents, the Guthries, settled in Gadsden in 1919 as sharecroppers. Ms. Bruemmer's maternal grandparents, the Hughes, moved to...

Oral History with José Burruel, April 22, 2011
Burruel, José María
José Burruel was born in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1925. He relates what it was like growing up as a Mexican and Native American in a poor single-parent home in Scottsdale and Phoenix. Mr. Burruel talks of the communities and neighborhoods he grew...

Oral History with Mary Stella Fisher Carrera, June 10, 2011
Carrera, Mary Stella Fisher
Mary Stella (Fisher) Carrera was born in Buckeye, Arizona in 1933 and has lived there her entire life. In this interview she talks about her family, education (including attending a private school in Mexico), and learning to fly. She talks a great...

Oral History with Burton Carter, July 11, 2011
Carter, Burton
Burton Carter grew up in Saint George, Utah and moved to Kingman, Arizona shortly after getting married in the 1960s. Mr. Carter discusses his tax, insurance, and securities business, his involvement in the Boy Scouts, and in the Latter Day Saints...

Oral History with Roy Chavez, March 23, 2011
Chavez, Roy
Roy Chavez has lived his entire life in and around Superior, Arizona. His Mother, Yolanda (Castro) Chavez, taught school and his father, Raymond Chavez, had a barber shop on Main Street. Mr. Chavez talks about growing up in Superior, his education...

Oral History with Rob Chilcoat, January 21 and 28, 2011
Chilcoat, Rob
Rob Chilcoat was born and raised in the Kingman, Arizona area. He talks about the places his family lived while his father worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Mr. Chilcoat joined the U.S. Air Force in 1977 and was stationed in England. He is the ...

Oral History with Frank De la Cruz, February 5, 2011
De la Cruz, Frank
Frank De la Cruz was the librarian at the El Rio Neighborhood Center on the West Side of Tucson, Arizona. In this interview Mr. De la Cruz talks about how the El Rio Neighborhood Center came to be in the 1970s and how it serves the communities of...

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