You remember the houses from Jiggerville and Upper Lowell being moved on trucks to Briggs, Saginaw and Dogpatch (in Bakerville).

 

You remember the sign over the door at the Arctic Circle, "There's no place anywhere near this place that's anything like this place, so this must be the place!"

 

You remember getting a chocolate éclair at Balich's Bakery after seeing a matinee at Lowell Theater.

 

You remember the spectacular Christmas displays Opie Rundle Burgess created every year for her yard on Oliver Circle!

 

You remember Ola Ratteree being the best soda jerk in town at Warren Rexall Drug.

 

You remember Lee and Bill Benderach having a seedy grocery store with a truly amazing inventory of booze!

 

You remember when Citation Avenue got its name and who named it! (Doonie Ducote, where are you now?) Was that the first time we ever saw spray paint used for graffiti?

Jay (Jeanette Busk) Lane, '57

People talk about Douglas and you start telling your senior class Bisbee-Douglas game story.

No matter where you are on the 4th of July, you would rather be in Old Bisbee or on the Vista.

Your Coach calls you by your mothers first name because he coached you and your Mom and just  cant seem to tell the two of you apart.

You laugh every time you see bike racers and think about all of those who ate it trying to race in Bisbee.

You remember Phil's field trips.

You tell people that you are from Bisbee and then they laugh and ask what type of car you drive.

A man, a dog, a cat and a mouse will never be the same.

No matter where you've been you cant seem to find a place that had burgers like the Arctic circle.

You know what the iron man looks like with cloths.

You tell your grandfather you go to St. Elmos and he hugs you and wipes a tear from his eye because to him it was a right of passage.

haha.

Frances Vasquez Wright  

 Elmo isn't just a character from sesame street        

referring to the bar of course

Residents who have lived in Bisbee only a short time call you a newcomer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Playing tennis with Fred Corrin's summer tennis program,

Swimming at the country club and buying $.10 tacos at the Monterey and "smuggling" them back to the country club

a big night out was cruisin the vista and going around the traffic circle the number of our class years.........

Eating Greasburgers to hide the smell of Pot in our cars

bill hicks 71

you remember all the people driving down to Bisbee Junction every night to watch the trains come in. 

Going into the little store on Tombstone Canyon where the Laundromat is and buying frozen Zero candy bars in the middle of the summer.

Marching in BHS pep rallies from the PDMerc. parking lot with the band, cheerleaders, pompons teachers, students andhalf the town, up to upper court(City Pool), to have a bonfire and burn the B for homecoming.

Buying barbeque chips at McClains grocery on Main St. every morning on the way to Horace Mann. Having recess at upper court because Horace Mann did not any flat space big enough for recess.

You remember running errands to PD Store for a quarter for "Ruby" whom it was rumored used to live in a certain section of Brewery Gulch that was not exactly residential.

Fourth of July in Bisbee when half of the western world came to town to celebrate!

You are so proud to have grown up and even have the privilege of raising your own children in this awesome town.

You are honking in every tunnel in Los Angeles to this very day.

You are thinking of the soap box races on the Fourth of July and the M-80's they would throw off of Castle Rock.

From Paula - Proud Granddaughter of Delfino and Bertha Moreno.

I Love You Nana and Tata! I Miss You both very much - Rest In Peace

You can tell I am from Bisbee when you remember the High Lonesome where many prom dates ended up. 

When Max Spillsbury kicked half of the basketball team for partying at Naco at the Monterey to often.

Where after being gone forty-two years I still call Bisbe home.

Ed Duchene

You can tell your from bisbee when you can remember the good times at the hitching post,and the wonder bar.

You mention a Lowell teacher named Bendixon (sp) or a Horace Mann teacher named (Grey) and others remember.

You sneaked in to play football on the circle in front of the ice house across from Lowell School. It was the only patch of green grass in can remember in Lowell.

You could hand walk across the gulch on a gas line that followed a foot bridge in front of your house. I think the location was called Brophey's Hill. My playmates were the Fishers (Chuck, Joey, and Danny), Brian Phillips, and Reuben Benevediz.

You could sneak off and play in the old Finish theater when yoou lived in Johnson's addition.

You were allowed to walk around the old Sacramento Pit on the way to Horace Mann when you lived in Jiggerville.

You made drivers angry when you and your buddies (Sammy Barrow for one) would slide down the snow beside the High School until the pavement was clear, polished ice and impossible to drive up. During this time, I lived 2 doors up from the High School, so I was in the gym every time the doors were open.

- you watched movies at the Lyric Theater in the Fall and Winter and had to go to the Drive-in during the summer because the Lyric closed during the summer

-you could get the best hamburger in the world for 25 cents at the Artic Circle

-you went "parking" at the old divide (the road over the tunnel)

-you were thrilled that the strike was over, dad would go back to work, and mom would now be at home doing the cooking!!

- you could tell time by the PD whistle

-you walked to school from the first day you started Kindergarten and neither mom or dad had a second thought about it

-you went to the Vista Park to play tennis at 9 pm during the summer and no one had a second thought about that

-you got on the bus at Greenway Elementary every Wednesday afternoon after school to attend catechism at St Patrick's

-you thought the 4th of July parade in Warren lasted 2 hours and was the best in the world!!!

-you remember the lucky couple from the Dating Game that won an event filled trip to Bisbee and they rode in a float during a 4th of July parade

-you remember the Merchant's Fair at the Warren Ballpark as being the biggest event in Bisbee, second only to the 4th of July

Bon Fires at Gold Gulch was the designated party spot for the night.

...You remember Rompin' a 1984 Brown Honda and a 1971 White Ford Pick up Truck

...You remember launching eggs from Castle Rock into Main Street

...You threw water baloons at tourists in Old Bisbee

...you actually had a point system for mailbox baseball

...it was the talk of the town if the football team actually won

...when there were four valedictorians and three soluditorians

...rules at BHS did not apply to the class of 99

...you could get away with everything!

You remember Mr. Frosco's first year of teaching.

You were treated like an adult at the age if 15 in Naco and Agua Prieta and had your very own waiter.

You couldn't wait to turn 19 and be allowed into the Waiting Room.

Every party was in the boondocks.

You didn't have a key to your own house because you never locked it.  Ever.

You look back and thank God you were raised in such a crime free town. 

submitted by Vicki Atkinson-Cameron, class of 1974

Bizbgirl

You know your from Bisbee when going across the line meant going to Naco or Agua Prieta to party.

When the Drillers where a bunch of guys in high school and not in the mines.

When cruising started at the top of Tombstone Canyon and lasted until you couldn't coast any more.

Debbie McDonald Class of 72'

Remembering Miss Power in 2nd grade at Central School.  She also lived across the street next to the convent.  

Going to church every Sunday at Sarced Heart Church until it closed.

Swimming at the Ymca.

Ringing the school bell at Central School.  That was fun.  Thinking that we had the biggest school yard. 

Being the last class at Hoarce Mann School.  Remember when Mr. Quill swatting, paddle, when we were bad. 

The principal name Mr. Detwiller.   Getting into troubleon upper court  by throwing rocks below to a man walking and turning out he was a judge pacing back and forth.  3 of us were at the wrong place at the right time.

Going to the lyric theater every saturday was a big event.  Unitl I started to drive.

Then it was the rifle range and the park. 

Climbing the B and the Cross without premission.

Pit blast at 3:00pm. sharp.  Watching the the mining trucks going down to the bottom of the pit. 

I remember the P.D. strike.  Lots of families were suffering.

Dad and Mom still live in Bisbee and now when I go visit I'm a tourist in my home

For the Catholic kids, who went to St. Pats, who can forget Sister Cecilia Loretto, and her ubiquitous clicker to bring her charges to heel, and the way she would point when angry with her index and middle fingers together and he ring and little fingers together.  That was so neat, we all tried to mimic her.

She was born in Bisbee around the turn of the century, and her mom still lived in Warren in the late 50's.  She actually attended St. Pats when she was growing up. When we had Civil Defense Drills, to protect ourselves from a Russian nuclear attack, she would afterwards regale us with stories of how, when she was a student there, they would have to go hide in the basement when Poncho Villa's marauders were spotted near town.

These were the days when there was universal agreement that Bisbee was on the 'Top 10 List' of cities the Russians intended to nuke when they attacked the US (because of the copper mines, of course).

And you must be from Bisbee when you can remember eating tacos at the OLD El Charro Restuarant, before they tore it down to enlarge the Pit.

Bert Whitehead, '62 

you remember Joni Giacomino was the first girl to play Babe Ruth

and she kicked butt too....

you remember the skating nights they use to have at St. Pat's.  Those days in Bisbee were truly the best!

I get a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat reading all the comments you put on this web. page....THANKS FOR DOING IT.

...I remember my first coach in Bisbee, Angel Salas, Sr.....what a great guy! He used to tell us he got so brown because of the sun.....

...I remember the organized grade school touch football games on Sat. mornings....Greenway  vs Lowell, St. Pat's vs "Horse Man", etc....then the real games between the same teams on Sunday afternoon...tackle, unsupervised!!

...the Warren Ball Park was always open on weekends for pick-up football and baseball games on weekends....why is it locked now? Bill Taylor, you need to do something about that!!

...I remember Coach Fuzzy Warren yelling at the Douglas fans, "Which one was Dawson?", after BHS had upset the previously unbeaten Bulldogs and their great Gib Dawson in the 1948 Turkey Day Game in Douglas!

...I remember carving my initials in the adobe bricks in the Warren Ball Park as a kid, and then years later bringing my 3 children to the park and finding some of the "HH"s were still there.

...I remember telling my 3 children that I posed for "iron man statue" by St. Pat's and not telling them any different until they were old enough to figure out that their dad lied.

...I remember "Rock" Miller, at one of our class reunions, listing the Presidents of The United States in order....backwards!

...does any one know where Jim "Lefty" Weld is?

...and, finally, I remember my wife going into a Frozen Yogurt shop in South Caroling in 1985 and finding out that the parents of the young girl who waited on her were from Bisbee....and my wife forgot the name!!! My wife, obviously, is not from Bisbee!!

Hadley Hicks

you would go to the reservoir up on Locklin Ave and fish for Blue Gill with a line, hook and bubble gum that you bought from the Canyon Store.

you would play basket ball at the Garfield on the green wooden backboard and twist your ankle when you made a lay-up.

you would swat dragon flies and play with the sand lions in the ditch.Can you tell I was Canyon Rat.

you would go to the Artic Circle and get a Jumbo Chili Cheese and BBQ chips with a Strawberry Shake.

call Mr. Frosco Garvin, and now my son is one of Garvin's boys.

I grew up in Bisbee and still live in Bisbee. I have been offered more money to work in other places.I have gone and come back, I missed the town I always tried to run away from. When I came back through the tunnel and felt the cool breeze I knew I was back home.I think this is the best place in the world for me my wife and kids.