Saturday March 2nd
The warm weather finally got here today; it got up to 82. We went for a drive to Superior and Globe and all the little towns in between. They are all old copper mining towns with some mining still going on. Superior was pretty interesting; it was a pretty good sized town yet after WWII but gradually diminished as the underground mines closed and the technology of copper mining changed. Most of the downtown buildings are still in fair condition but empty. Globe is in better shape because they still have an active open pit operation there, but there are still a lot of old buildings standing empty. But the town is still a lot busier than it was when I drove through while I was living in Safford, in 1977.
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