Bear Down Wildcats

https://maps.arizona.edu/aerial360s/" target="_blank

Click the arrows or use the menu at the top left to navigate to different parts of campus

Very cool. Wish I had more aerial shots from when I was there to compare.

Chicat wrote:Very cool. Wish I had more aerial shots from when I was there to compare.

Even from 10 years ago campus is way different. There's soon to be 9 5-15 floor high rise apartments on the northwest part of campus between Euclid, Park, Speedway and 2nd St. Since I started there 16 years ago there's been like 4 new dorms and several new hospital buildings and like 4 new class buildings and two parking garages built. If you haven't been back since before 2002 or so then the campus is halfway to unrecognizable

Every time I'm in Tucson I drive by campus and check out the changes. The place is in constant evolution.

The tower where the old Jack in the Box was is now built. Crazy how fast the towers next to the Mariott went up

Wow that is crazy. I graduated in 99 and haven't been back to Tucson in about 6 years. Seeing those pictures brings back memories of what used to be there. Carls Jr, Jack in the Box, Subway. Losbetos, etc.

My 4 years at U of A were the best time of my life even though I was broke.

February 1936 aerial photography of Tucson.

https://gis.pima.gov/data/layers/nrcsin ... s/L212.jpg" target="_blank

This image covers about Tucson Blvd on the west, speedway on the south and swan on the east. Pima county had hundreds of images of this 1936 survey for access.

Two things stand out to me:

That stretch of Tyndall and Park is crazy. Could never have imagined it.

Marriott has to be livid they built before the city gave everyone (university) the right to go up into the sky!

baycat93 wrote:Two things stand out to me:

That stretch of Tyndall and Park is crazy. Could never have imagined it.

Marriott has to be livid they built before the city gave everyone (university) the right to go up into the sky!

Yea it's crazy. Like 3 of the apartments are only 4-5 floors but the two newest ones they're building are like 15. That whole corner of campus is a sea of high rises. Expensive too. Anyone who is anyone lives there now and they are the seat of Greek life and the height of cool. All the kids from Naperville and Laguna Beach and Bedminster live there. Living in an off campus house is for poor people.

scumdevils86 wrote:February 1936 aerial photography of Tucson.
https://gis.pima.gov/data/layers/nrcsin ... s/L212.jpg" target="_blank
This image covers about Tucson Blvd on the west, speedway on the south and swan on the east. Pima county had hundreds of images of this 1936 survey for access.

That is awesome. That sharp bend in the wash on the left is Country Club and the wash splits on the right at Craycroft. Thats Tucson Country Club in between the split, looks like it was all farm land. You can even see River Rd above the wash is the same route it is today. Just below the bend on the left is Tucson Racquet Club and there appears to be 2 small bodies of water that are now gone.

Amazing how little the path of the wash has changed in 84 years.

1936:


2020:


Here is Ft Lowell and Craycroft:


You can see the outline of that neighborhood and I believe the darker spot above is what turned into the lake at Hill Farm:

Jefe wrote:Here is Ft Lowell and Country Club:

Craycroft?

Can see all of downtown and the campus here.

It's easy to see how few streets were paved in 1936. Speedway for one, 6th Ave, Euclid. Not much else outside of downtown.

Chicat wrote:

Jefe wrote:Here is Ft Lowell and Country Club:

Craycroft?

Roiiiight

scumdevils86 wrote:https://gis.pima.gov/data/layers/nrcsin ... s/L256.jpg

Can see all of downtown and the campus here.

Work is too busy but I will spend hours on this pic