You don’t look 94 years old!
14 Feb 2007 Leave a Comment
Today is Arizona’s “birthday”, it was admitted to the Union on Valentine’s Day 1912. It was the last of the contiguous states to be admitted, right after New Mexico.
Here’s a few fun facts about Arizona:
During World War II, there was a German POW camp located near Papago Park in Phoenix. At one point, the Germans got hold of a map of the area, saw the “Salt River” and decided to escape and take the river to Mexico. They didn’t know that the Salt River is dry 99 percent of the time and they were all returned to the camp after their unsuccessful attempt at freedom.
Speaking of Papago Park, the first governor of Arizona, George W.P. Hunt is buried beneath a small white pyramid, known as Hunt’s Tomb, on a hilltop in Papago Park. Wiki says the tomb is a minor tourist attraction, but I think that it’s been closed to the public for quite some time. But visitors to the Phoenix Zoo can see the pyramid quite clearly.
Arizona does NOT have a lieutenant governor, although there were rumblings to change that when then-Governor Evan Mecham was impeached in the late 1980s.
Arizona does not practice Daylight Savings Time. It may be confusing to the rest of the world, but I’m glad we don’t change our clocks around. After all, what would we do each summer with another hour of sunlight? 
