Glendale

Images of America: Arizona

by Carol J. Coffelt St. Clair, Charles S. St. Clair

Established in 1892, nine miles northwest of Phoenix in the Salt River Valley of Arizona, Glendale at first attracted farmers with strong Protestant religious convictions. Soon, however, others began to settle in the town and on the rich farmlands of the area. Although predominantly Anglos, the settlers that came in the latter 1890s and early decades of the 1900s included various ethnic minorities. Each group had a significant role in the city's development into an important agricultural center that shipped produce all over the country. World War II and its influx of servicemen to train at Glendale's Luke and Thunderbird airfields brought permanent changes to Glendale. The population doubled and doubled again and again. Today the city-Arizona's fourth largest-is a metropolitan area of 59 square miles and close to 250,000 people. This volume offers windows to understanding the growth and development of Glendale over the years.

Genres: Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2006

Reviews

[Catherine Mustread · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part of the Images of America series (not a series listed on Goodreads), this book is typical of the series in the combination of well captioned historical photos combined with short chapters describing the history of the place, in this instance, Glendale Arizona.

Glendale's history as a town began in roughly 1885 with the building of the canal, which allowed agriculture and settlement. The last picture, Cabela's, is not one I would have chosen as it seems crass and commercial, but often that is the way of history, the old makes way for the new, although it's built in a former alfalfa field, it's still a commercial enterprise.

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