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With the Great Depression the mines closed in Jerome in 1930. Five years later Phelps Dodge bought most of the mining rights in and around the town.... more
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With the Great Depression the mines closed in Jerome in 1930. Five years later Phelps Dodge bought most of the mining rights in and around the town.
Blasting was the cheapest way to get at the ore in the mountain, exploding up to 250,000 pounds of dynamite at a time. An underground railroad transported the ore to the nearby Clarkdale smelter.
"A movie theater, a pharmacy, a pool hall, a JC Penny's, and other businesses crumbled, slid downhill, and had to be dismantled. Jerome's famous 'Sliding Jail' can still be seen hundreds of feet downhill from its original location.
In 1952 Phelps Dodge left for good and the town quickly became a ghost town. 15,000 residents dwindled to maybe fifty resolute individuals and families."
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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