Flashback Friday

Ninety-five years ago today, thousands flocked to Yuma to celebrate completion of a highway linking Arizona with the Pacific Ocean.

Ninety-eight years ago, the Tombstone Epitaph's front page shared "about the best announcement that has come to Cochise County on road work for some time." Today, the result is SR 82.

Learn more about these structures, which after nearly 80 years continue to provide value to those living in, visiting and traveling through this southeastern Arizona community.

More than 30 years ago, the Black Canyon Freeway saw the first digital message boards installed.

Listing who received invitations and even how officials would obtain lumber to build a speaker stand made for page-one news back in 1936.

A celebration this week in 1915 included a parade of decorated automobiles, a concert and horse races.