Some local folks that streets are named in their honor.

1) Carmichael Ave to honor Margaret and Bill Carmichael.
2) Fry Blvd to honor Erwin Fry and his pioneer family.
3) Keating St. in honor of Paul Keating, the third mayor of  Sierra Vista, 1961-65.
4) Jean Randle Way in recognition of Jean Randle, the first woman elected as mayor of Sierra Vista by the public, served from 1983-87.
5) Sherbundy Street for Clarence and Margaret Sherbundy. Mr. Sherbundy was Sierra Vista's first police chief.
6) Steffen St. in honor of  Rudolph Steffen, Sierra Vista's first mayor.
7) Lenzner Ave to honor General Emil Lenzner, who became Fort Huachuca's post commander two weeks after reactivation on Febraury 1,1954.

Grand Opening of Sierra Vista's A. J. Bayless in July 1958

                                July 10, 1958 Gateway Times ad.

Sierra Vista's first Dairy Queen.

     Built in 1957 for Joseph and Virginia Hilb and recently closed in 2017. 1974 Jerry Long photo.

The famous Sue & Herbs Drive-In. Photo circa 1963.

Terry Peacock Photo

The new Oliver's Egg Market on 100 N. 2nd Street...

                          June 11, 1964 Gateway Times article.

.....as it looks today, 53 years later.

The Military Inn......

   .......was located on the corner of Fry Blvd and Carmichael Ave. the current location of the Wells Fargo Bank parking lot. Left image circa 1970. Right, August 1955 image shows the MI's seven foot wall to hold their dances under the stars. Courtesy The Bellantoni Family.
                     

MI history according to the SV Historical Society.

           
                                           Click on image to enlarge.

1965 Military Inn menu.

               
    Menu obtained by David Simpson from a man who's name is Les, who lives and works in Tombstone. Les was working at the MI and left when he joined the Army in 1966. Les also donated a copy of this menu to the SV Henry Hauser Museum.

                  Click on the image to enlarge.

The MI always offered great entertainment.

               
                                  1964 Ads from the Gateway Times.  

POST OFFICE LOCATIONS - 1912 - present.

 Margaret Ziegan bought the building with the land on December 1911. Soon after she married Bill Carmichael and they ran the building as a store and post office. This building served as the post office when the community was called Overton; the name was later changed to Garden Canyon. In 1934 Lillian Fry became postmaster and in 1936 she moved the post office to the second location, 433 E. Fry Blvd. The community was called Fry, AZ until 1956 when the small town was incorporated and it became Sierra Vista. The same year the Fry store / post office burned down.                            
                     
 335 N. Garden Ave. is aka the Daisy Mae's Steak House building.
 433 E. Fry Blvd. directly west of La Casita Restaurant.
 264 W. Fry Blvd. was in The El Rancho Shopping Center.
 316 E. Fry Blvd. is where Sparks Furniture is now.
 96 S. Carmichael Ave. the now location of Sierra Vista Food Co-op.  

Circa 1959........

    ........The Green Top apartments, launderette and drive-in Cafe. Opened their doors on March 27, 1943 and was demolished in 1962 to make room for McLellan's that opened on August 1963.  Image provided by David Santor.

The Gate Cafe........

    ......located next to The Service Club. One of the few places to get a home cooked meal in those days. Circa late 1940s - 1950s.

The Gate Cafe menu........

                   
                      Date: unknown. Courtesy Dona Rogers.

1930s.....

1960 Geronimo Drive-In Theater

.......A lot of dirt roads back in those days. Canyon Drive and Theater Drive were paved on May 1961.
Courtesy Norm and Kim Dunn / Henry Hauser Museum.

Mid 1940s......

.....photo of Sherbunby's Canteen Drug Store. Paul Wolfe and Fred Whitton had the Gate Theater (Smoke Shop building) built in early 1942 and soon after they built The Canteen, a package liquor store. When the war was over, Paul Wolfe sold his interest to his partner Fred Whitton, then Fred Whitton sold the Canteen to Clarence Sherbundy. The new business became Sherbundy's Canteen Drug Store. In 1957 the Canteen was sold and a later date the front half of this building was removed and the remaining rear half of the building was remodled to become a bar which to locals that remember it as L & R Tap Room. I suggest checking out Virginia Sherbundy Rogers' Oral History on DVD, contact the Henry Hauser Museum for more information.Henry Hauser Museum photo.

From four miles away and at eight thousand feet high.....

.......date unknown of the L & R Tap Room.

1954.....

...looking west towards the main gate. The sidewalk on the left that is visible is for the Service Club. Mac's Bent Elbow would become The Sorry Gulch Saloon, the Gate Theater building became The Smoke Shop and Sherbunby's Canteen became Sierra Drug and later it was Snow White Appliance and TV and Snow White Launderette and now it is known as Bloom Country Florist. Post card image provided by David Simpson.