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WELCOME TO ABOVE TUCSON – A HOMETOWN PHOTO ALBUM
 
 
The interactive website to the book Above Tucson, Then & Now. The book, first published in 1995, is an historical reference with vintage aerial photographs of the Tucson valley taken by A.E. “Gene” Magee in the 1930s '40s and '50s and a modern day comparison taken by author/photographer James Glinski in 1995.

Unique to this site is a third photograph matched to a selected pair from the book. Taken in 2005 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the book’s publication, the new images illustrate further changes that have occurred during the last decade in the Tucson valley.

An interactive map page showing the location of every photo in the book is accessed through the map page. Click on a selected site to view sets of photographs that includes the updated comparison.

These photographs illustrate how Tucson underwent an incredible transformation. The explosive growth rate in the 1940s and '50s set into motion a rapidly changing backdrop for it’s people. To some who were here during that boom, the photographs from the book may evoke a memory of family or personal change. For those who were not here then, perhaps a glimpse of that era can be as evocative in seeing Tucson’s changes from a small western town to a metropolis of nearly one million people . . . and growing.

 
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1996
The Pond's Mansion off of Speedway and Wilmot was renovated
into a resort before it became a restaurant and office complex
The contents of this website and "Above Tucson Then & Now" are © by James Glinski.
All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission. Original website design by Stanegate