Photography Homage Henry Buehman first known image of Tucson Park Brewery Levin's Park 1874-2008
by David Lee Guss
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Photography Homage Henry Buehman first known image of Tucson Park Brewery Levin's Park 1874-2008
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David Lee Guss
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The Southern Pacific RR didn't arrive in Tucson until March 1880 so people and supplies came by stage and wagons. Henry Buehman took this image in 1874 the year he opened his "Photograph Parlor" on the corner of Stone and Pennington.
The building on the left is the corner of the "old government building." The Park Brewery is in the background with Levin's Park beyond that.
The Prussian brewer Alex Levin opened his park in 1869. "The three-acre entertainment center eventually included a restaurant, dance pavilion, theater and opera house, riding stables, an archery range and other recreational facilities. During its heyday, it was the site of every important social and communal event in Tucson."
Noted historian C.L. Sonnichson says in his book on Tucson history: "Those enterprises financed his establishment of the three-acre park "west of town" and "at the end of Pennington."
Over the years he added a dance hall, restaurant, an opera house that would seat 2,000, a shooting gallery, archery range, an icehouse, a bath house, riding stables and a bowling alley.
When the first Southern Pacific train made its grand entry into Tucson on March 20, 1880, (causing consternation among local officials by arriving an hour ahead of schedule), Levin's Park was the site selected for a welcoming banquet."
History buffs have discovered that the park stood to the north west of Granada and Congress in downtown Tucson, the present location of the state office building. No historic marker marks the spot.
Photographers are decidedly not welcome to document the location due to post 9-11 paranoia.
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