“Streets of This Town” is a little photo series featuring random pics I take on long walks through Tucson—to sort of coincide with Tucson Salvage.
For all the boosters boasting of Tucson’s financial turnaround, I walk these streets almost nightly and am quietly taken by the levels of abandonment—hollowed out storefronts, houses, gas stations, on major and minor streets. No craft cocktails on 22nd Street and Alvernon.
This article appears in Mar 2-8, 2017.


6th poorest in the country and proudly run by liberals for many decades.
Because all the money is held hostage in Phoenix, by conservatives.
We’re #1 in dickish whiners like What,Again.
Dickish whiners RULE!
Literally. We have one for a president.
Beautiful.
You have craft cocktails a short walk away from 22nd & Alvernon at Joesler village. There is no storefront along 22nd street that I’d consider opening a craft cocktail bar.