Ushering In The Old:

A Former Employee Remembers The Fox Tucson Theatre

My Dad -- Jerry Parks -- walks down Congress Street in 1947. He was photographed in his Fox Theatre uniform by one of Tucson's "photographers in the street", some of whose photos can now be seen as tile mosaics in the Broadway underpass.

Dad behind the candy counter at the Fox Theatre. This picture ran in a June 1, 1975 Arizona Daily Star article, in which Dad went unidentified. (To see the article in its entirety, click here for a PDF file. If you don't have your free Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, download it here.)

(Coming soon: the transcription of my Dad's tape-recorded Fox Theatre memories.)