John Walker Photographs 1929-1933 | Tombstone, Jerome, Charleston, Arizona 1932

JOHN WALKER TOMBSTONE, JEROME, CHARLESTON, AZ 1931

TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Allen & 5th Street
The Oriental saloon on the NE corner of Allen & Fifth St. (it survived the 1882 fire)— Jim Lindsey’s Silver Dollar Emporium is east (rt).
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Bird Cage Theater 1932

TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Bird Cage Theater
The Birdcage Theater, 1881-1889, stayed closed until tourism emerged in Tombstone. An earlier photo does not have the big sign across the top.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Fremont Street 1932
Looking west up Fremont St.,the 2-story building on the left (south side) is the fire station. Schieffelin Hall is the first 2-story building on the right (north side). Beyond is the Hotel Nobles.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Street Scene
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Street Scene #2
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Wyatt Earp Sign
Tombstone of old was a tough place. Wyatt Earp nearly came to blows with the good townfolk! The sign says this occured several months before the OK corral gunfight.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Allen & 5th Street #2
Wehrfritz’s Crystal Palace, NW corner of Allen & Fifth St, burned down May 26, 1882. Up Fifth St. on the left is the Tombstone Epitaph bldg. In 1881, it was located on the north side of Fremont St.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Alley
Looking out to Fremont Street with Addie Bourland's across the street. Before the 1882 fire this was a narrow alley leading to the corral and vacant lot behind it where the actual gun fight took place.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Alley #2 1932
Another view of the alley with John Walker standing next to the fence.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Fremont St.
Looking east on Fremont St. to the 4th St. intersection. The Hotel Nobles (originally the Gird Block) is left. In 1881/82, the door to the far left opened into the county court offices where Judge Wells Spicer held the shoot-out hearing.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Alley #3
The site on the left was Mollie Fly’s boarding house. The photography studio was in a second building behind the boarding house. Eighteen feet west and across the alley from the boarding house was William A. Harwood’s House, belonging to Tombstone’s first mayor and seen here. The alley was where the shooting started, and, for the most part, continued. As it neared its conclusion, Tom McLaury put into Fremont St. in the vicinity of the photographer. Holliday, closer to the irrigation ditch that ran north and south (and seen here) fired his shotgun and killed the cowboy. Little but perhaps a stray shot, occurred to the south in the lot behind the alley and alongside of the OK Corral.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA OK Corral Sign
Closer look at the alley sign.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Boot Hill Graveyard Marker
This is the end result of that famous fight at OK Corral. The grave marker seems too fresh looking to be the original, so despite the town being in such a dimished state in 1932, someone made an effort to keep this grave marker cleaned up.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Boot Hill 3 Graveyard Markers
Wider view of the graveyard with Walker's 1932 Ford Woody off to the left.
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TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA Monument to Ed Shieffelin

TOMBSTONE, AZ Ed Shieffelin Monument
The plaque says, 'Ed Shieffelin, died May 12 1897, aged 49 years, 8 months. A dutiful son, a faithful husband, a kind brother, and a true friend.' He eventually became rich from silver which brought on the boomtown years for Jerome. He died young and as boomtowns often do, when the silver ran out the town declined.
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JEROME, ARIZONA
Jerome began as a mining camp in 1883 and grew into a town to house workers from the United Verde Mine which produced copper, gold and silver.
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JEROME, ARIZONA
Jerome became a notorious 'wild west' town, a hotbed of prostitution, gambling, and vice. On 5 February 1903, the New York Sun proclaimed Jerome to be 'the wickedest town in the West'.
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CHARLESTON, ARIZONA
Charleston Arizona was founded in 1879 as a milling site for ore from Tombstone's silver mines. These photos are all that was there in 1932. Today there's even less.
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CHARLESTON, ARIZONA
A large earthquake accompanied by more than thirty minutes of aftershocks struck on May 3, 1887, leaving the town's adobe structures in ruins, and sealing the town's fate.
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CHARLESTON, ARIZONA
During World War II, the US Army used Charleston as a practice site for urban combat.
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CHARLESTON, ARIZONA
These adobe ruins exist today to some degree, but time has severly worn them down.
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