A tangent of trivia...

As any history enthusiast well knows, it's nearly impossible to stay "on topic" when studying the trivia of daze gone by.  Here is a typical example of how it goes: Central Avenue in Phoenix led us to a Rapid Shooting Story in Salt Lake City!

Tuesday evening, May 19, 2020, we decided to take a random virtual trip along Central Avenue, one of the main arteries of early Phoenix, Arizona. Fortunately, there are 300 photos of Central Avenue in The McCulloch Brothers collection at Arizona State University.

So, we're happily roaming along enjoying various views of Central Avenue when we come to this one.

Huh?  What the heck is this?  What are those banners?  What's going on here?  Well, luckily, Arizona State University made this digital photo available as a 24 megabyte TIF file.  So we dutifully downloaded the file and then enlarged it to look for tell tale details.  Below is the "gateway detail."

It says it right there on that banner: "Fiesta Del Sol."  Well, what the heck was Fiesta Del Sol?  Inquiring minds want to know.  Since the archive data only says "1938" for a date, we first had to confirm is really WAS 1938.  Often, archive data is very unreliable when it comes to providing dates.  So we zoomed in a little further on the photo.

Yep.  That classic Chevy's license plate clearly says 1938.  So, the next challenge was to find out whazzup with the Fiesta Del Sol. So we go to our trusty $150 annual subscription to Newspapers Dot Com and cue up "The Arizona Republic" and then search all 1938 issues for "Fiesta Del Sol."  Trust me, wading through all the hits that search produced was a real chore.

But we eventually determined Fiesta Del Sol was a football gig and clearly the forerunner of today's famed Fiesta Bowl.  It was a major hoop-dee-doo in 1938, that's for sure.  So, we became mesmerized by all the "doings" of Fiesta Del Sol and began reading various stories.  We were reading about the selection of the Queen (a young woman from Bisbee) in the November 13 Sunday edition.  It was a fun read so we thought we'd just flip to the next day's issue and see what happened next.  We began on Page One and turned the digital pages and that's when we saw it on Page 8.

 Well, as a former Grand Canyon River Guide, how could this NOT be enticing???
See: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51733647/mighty-river/

So, we note that the Phoenix newspaper picked up this snippet from the November 13 Salt Lake newspaper.  Naturally, we go to the November 13 issue and scroll through the pages until we find the original article.  And so that's "the rest of the story."

Here's the full Salt Lake article:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/ArizonaHistoryStories/photos/?tab=album&album_id=167565154756789