TH-325 - Parks/Landscaping

File Contents:

Brochure, City of Tempe Parks and Recreation, c1976.

"City of Tempe Park Naming Policy Criteria," c1980.

Memo from Tempe Historical Society to Ron Pies, Community Services Director, c1980, re: Suggestions for Park Names.

List of Tempe Parks, identifying significance of park names.

Scott Solliday, "History of Tempe Papago Park (typescript, 3 pp., 1990).

Dick George, "Papago Park; Where the history is sometimes more colorful than the rocks," Arizoo, Jan/Feb 1992.

Plaque Text from Monument in Moeur Park, inscribed 1949.

"Water Users To Build Permanent Camp," TN, 1 Mar 1930.

"Senate Passes Papago Park Bill," TN, 5 Apr 1930.

"Tempe Gets Park Lands For Nothing," TN, 10 May 1930.

"Land Office Will Divide Papago Park," TN, 23 Aug 1930.

"Papago Park to Have Bass Hatchery," TN, 12 Mar 1932.

"Bass Hatchery Lease Granted," TN, 2 Apr 1932.

"Some of our people . . . " [re: Bass Hatchery], TN, 28 May 1932.

"Hunt Bass Hatchery In Operation Soon," TN, 25 Jun 1932.

"Bass Hatchery Will Be Dedicated Tomorrow," TN, 17 Dec 1932.

"Hunt Fish Hatchery Dedicated Sunday," TN, 24 Dec 1932.

"Hunt Memorial in Papago Park," TN, 24 Dec 1932.

"Proposed Improvement Of Papago Park Would Include Tempe Ground," The Collegian, 12 Oct 1934.

"Beach Project Work Started," The Collegian, 12 Oct 1934.

"CCC work in Papago Park," TN, 23 Feb 1935

"City Beach Is Popular Playground," AR, 27 Apr 1952.

"Award Park Bids; Phase 2 Of Canal Development Ready," TDN, 24 Oct 1969.

"Off-The-Sidewalk Park Dedicated To Tempe Pioneer," TDN, 2 May 1981.

"Help Christen Estrada Park," TDN, 14 Nov 1983.

"Respected Name Estrada To Grace Park," by Peggy Bryant, TDN, 10 Dec 1983.

"Corbell Park Dedication Is Saturday," TDN, 22 Mar 1984.

"Tempe deeds Papago Park site to historical group for museum," TDN, 15 Jun 1984.

Related Materials in THM Research Library:

HPS-190 - Tempe Beach Stadium

Photographs in THM Archives:
  • 1987.1.2735 (2B2-A14A) Papago Park, c1930
  • 1987.1.2736 (2B2-A14B) Papago Park, c1930
Related Materials at ASU Hayden Library:

Maps of the Maricopa County Parks and Recreation (1987)
(AZDOC XCMA 20.8:M 16 FOL)

Photographs at ASU Hayden Library, Arizona Collection:

CP TDN
Tempe Daily News (A188)
7650 photos by TDN staff photographers, 1972-1976

Photographs at Arizona Historical Society/Tempe:

Lieutenants' wives at Tempe Beach Pool, 4 Jul 1943 (#91.9.1)