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Groundbreaking in Tempe - Tempe Daily News - September 19, 1978
Groundbreaking in Tempe - Tempe Daily News - September 19, 1978
Groundbreaking in Tempe - Tempe Daily News - September 19, 1978

Groundbreaking in Tempe - Tempe Daily News - September 19, 1978

DateSeptember 19, 1978
MediumEmulsion on paper
Dimensions5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2001.19.3863
DescriptionFrom the Tempe Daily News September 19, 1978: Groundbreaking for a showroom and warehouse to be the first Arizona facility for Leon's Furniture, mass retail merchandiser of home furnishings, was held in CMD's Broadway Industrial park on Southern avenue, Monday. Wielding shovels - amidst ribbing from a lot of onlookers - are (left to right) Tempe Mayor Harry Mitchell, Tom Leon of Toronto, Canada and James F. Donovan, trustee if Central Manufacturing District. Jan Young Photo. The film negative of this photograph is housed in box 2G8-D.
Status
Not on view