{"id":438,"date":"2015-01-24T22:37:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/?page_id=438"},"modified":"2015-05-13T18:07:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T01:07:29","slug":"timeline-1955","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/?page_id=438","title":{"rendered":"Timeline 1955"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"592\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: garamond,times; font-size: xx-large;\"><b>March 20, 1955<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: garamond,times; font-size: xx-large;\">A Donation for Posterity<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: garamond,times; font-size: large;\"><b>In honor of the 75th anniversary of the first Southern Pacific train into Tucson, a celebration was held at the old SP Depot on Toole Avenue. \u00a0A reenactment of that first train was held with engine 1673 in the lead and free rides given to all. \u00a0Free one mile rides to the Pacific Fruit Express yard were given to &#8220;children accompanied by adults and adults accompanied by children.&#8221; Over 10,000 people turned out for the event. \u00a0It was the last time Tucson would ever hear a live steam whistle.<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"292\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/?page_id=448\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><i>NEXT TIMELINE EVENT<\/i><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/sue\/Desktop\/SATMfiles-forMichlSite\/sitesave\/index-dix-1955_files\/hist1_data\/lefthand.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"47\" height=\"46\" align=\"Middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/donate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-444\" src=\"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/donate.jpg\" alt=\"donate\" width=\"317\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial;\"><b>The locomotive on March 20, 1955.<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ticket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-443\" src=\"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ticket.jpg\" alt=\"ticket\" width=\"201\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial;\"><b>The excursion ticket used at the event.<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"><center><span style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/\">MAIN PAGE<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/?page_id=432\">PREVIOUS TIMELINE EVENT<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/?page_id=448\">NEXT TIMELINE EVENT<\/a><\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; March 20, 1955A Donation for Posterity In honor of the 75th anniversary of the first Southern Pacific train into Tucson, a celebration was held at the old SP Depot on Toole Avenue. \u00a0A reenactment of that first train was held with engine 1673 in the lead and free rides given to all. \u00a0Free one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonhistoricdepot.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}