Pojoaque Pueblo

One of 19 Native Indian Tribes in New Mexico, is the Pojoaque Pueblo; just north of Santa Fe, NM. Originally settled around the time of King Arthur’s death in Europe, it stayed undiscovered until the early 1600s by Spanish Missions ...

Sands Hotel

The Sands resort opened on December 15th, 1952. Built by Billy Wilkerson, the former owner of the Flamingo, the structure cost 5.5 million dollars. The hotel and casino found its home on a popular strip in Las Vegas.

The opening party, ...

Sangre de Christos Mountains

A sixteenth-century Spanish missionary received heavy wounds during a skirmish with Native Americans, who had been forcefully pressured to serve as guides to the traveling Europeans as they ventured from Mexico to the American Southwest. As the missionary paddled out ...

Sky Harbor International Airport

Sky Harbor International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport in Phoenix, Arizona. Located in the Sonoran Desert, at an elevation of approximately 1,117 feet, Phoenix was incorporated as a city in 1861 and is currently ranked as the sixth ...

Sosa-Carrillo Fremont House Museum

Earliest records indicate that the pioneering Sosa family constructed an adobe home to reflect the life of a wealthy Tucson family in the 1880s, known today as the Sosa-Carrillo Fremont House Museum. In 1878 Manuela Sosa sold the property to ...

South Kaibab Trail

The National Park Service constructed the South Kaibab Trail, on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, as an alternative to the Bright Angel Trail, which Ralph Cameron built and charged hikers a few to use. The South Kaibab Trail ...

Guadeloupe Arizona

Despite the growth of other cities in Arizona like Tempe and Phoenix for an example, Guadalupe has remained, quite similar to how it was post world war era.

Guadalupe is a small and inconspicuous town just off interstate 10. However, ...

Gammage Auditorium

Frank Lloyd Wright’s last commission, the Gammage Auditorium, also known as the ASU Gammage, debuted in 1964. Completed five years after Wright’s death in 1959, Wright designed the auditorium at the request of Arizona State University’s president Grady Gammage.

Neither ...

Frontierland

Before Disney took over the central Florida area with parks, such as Disneyworld, Walt Disney personally oversaw the creation of Disneyland in Anaheim California. Debuting in 1955, five themed “lands” made up Disneyland which included Main Street, U.S.A., Adventureland, Frontierland, ...

Frontier Hotel and Casino

The Frontier Hotel and Casino originally opened as Hotel Last Frontier on October 30, 1942. Located on the site of the old Pair-O-Dice Club and 91 Club, the new hotel became the second resort on U.S. Highway 91, which later ...