WHAT EVERY ARIZONAN SHOULD KNOW  

The town of Tombstone has a beauty salon called the "Curl Up and Dye."

The city of San Francisco was founded in 1776 by Spanish colonists from Tubac, Arizona.

The town of Pinetop was not named for the pine trees that dominate the area but for Walt Rigney, a tall, bushy-haired bartender known locally as “Old Pinetop.”

The Gunfight at OK Corral was actually fought on Lot 2 Block 17 in a vacant lot between the Harwood house and Fly’s Photograph Gallery.  Not the stuff for a movie title.  

The Lost Dutchman was a German.

Arizona has 92 wilderness areas while New York has only one and in all New England there are only eight.

Arizona ’s first cowboy movie star was a woman named Dorothy Fay Southworth of Prescott.  She went to Hollywood where she starred        in movies and eventually married Tex Ritter.  Their son, John, was also a Hollywood actor of renown.

Montezuma didn’t live in Montezuma’s Castle.  The place was abandoned by the Sinagua Indians a hundred years before he was born.

New York Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, was born in Prescott, Arizona.

On June 6, 1936, the first barrel of tequila produced in the United States rolled off the production line in Nogales.

In 1911, pioneer film makers Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky planned on moving their operations to Flagstaff                                              but the inclimate weather caused them to keep going further west until they reached Hollywood.

Mount Lemmon, in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is the southernmost ski resort in the United States.

The Arizona Cardinals are the National Football League's oldest continuous team, dating back to 1898.

Billy the Kid killed his first man, Windy Cahill, in Arizona.

Actor Andy Devine was born in Flagstaff and raised in Kingman.

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard honeymooned in Oatman.

During the 1930s the busiest airport in Arizona was at Winslow.

Bar Bet Geography: What's in the center of Arizona ? Answer, Z.

Arizona has more golf courses than Scotland and more mountains than Switzerland.

On July 4, 1887, the first railroad train to arrive in Phoenix had to go in reverse back to the mainline at Maricopa because there was no roundhouse in the capital city.

In 1912, President William Howard Taft was ready to sign the statehood bill on February 12th but it was Lincoln's birthday. The next day,   the 13th, was considered bad luck so they waited until the following day.  That's why Arizona became known as  the "Valentine State."

McDonalds, first franchise was in Phoenix, 1955. First drive thru was at Fort Huachuca and Sedona only one that doesn’t have golden arches.  Theirs are turquoise.  

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