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The J. C. Penney–Chicago Store is a historic department store building in downtown Tucson, Arizona, United States. Built in 1903 for the Los Angeles Furniture Co, it housed J. C. Penney by July 25, 1942. [ 3 ]
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
The J. C. Penney–Chicago Store Building = was built in 1903 and is located in 130 E. Congress St.. J.C. Penney, was the building's longest single tenant, occupying the building from 1927 to 1957. The El Paso-based department store occupied the building until 1967 when it closed. The Chicago Store moved in after the El Paso store closed.
Toxic Shock Records was an American independent record label based first in Pomona, California, then in Tucson, Arizona.The label was spawned from the record store of the same name, by its founders Bill Sassenberger and Julianna Towns in 1983, when they released the first of the Noise from Nowhere series of 7-inch EP compilations.
Early store formats of 4,000 to 8,000 square feet were considered large by standards of the day. Later, Silo operated stores of 12,000 to 25,000 square feet, with two warehouse outlets of almost 60,000 square feet in Buffalo, NY and New Orleans, LA. Stores were generally freestanding, with some attached to shopping centers or malls.
Tucson is considered an influential center for Mariachi music and is home to a large number of Mariachi musicians and singers. [116] The Tucson International Mariachi Conference, hosted annually since 1982, involves several hundred mariachi bands and folklorica dance troops during a three-day festival in April. [ 117 ]
The Arizona Theatre Company (ATC) was founded by Sandy Rosenthal in 1966 as the Arizona Civic Theatre. [1] It originally performed in the basement of the old Santa Rita Hotel in Tucson. In 1972, the company achieved full professional status and became a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). [citation needed]
The annual public-choice music awards – nicknamed the TAMMIES [4] – seeks to recognize local talent by highlighting Tucson's best musical performers. [5] The awards are held in the fall and are sponsored by Tucson Weekly magazine.