As the old phrase goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. If that’s really true, then the Petrified Forest has a lot of treasure from 50 years or more ago.
The National Park Service is preserving a lot of what Route 66 drivers and passengers threw out the windows in the mid-20th century and is trying to put it into historical perspective.
William Parker is a paleontologist at Petrified Forest National Park.
More Arizona History
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It’s part of an effort to use advances in DNA technology to attach names to those the military was unable to identify after the aerial assault 85 years ago. -
Darlene Justus is determined to preserve two military barracks from Camp Papago Park — a World War II POW camp. -
KJZZ contributor Robrt Pela has been going to Durant’s for decades. About a year ago, he joined us in studio in the wake of news that the restaurant would be closing temporarily. After 75 years, it had been sold to new owners — the Mastro family, who own a couple other steakhouses in Phoenix. -
The first of its kind in the Grand Canyon State, the museum was created to share the history of the game in Arizona through photographs, memorabilia, alternating exhibitions and personal stories. -
As the country celebrates its 250th anniversary, states including Arizona are rolling out their own celebrations: A semitruck carrying a traveling museum will be pulling up to all 15 counties. One of its stops was the Glendale Public Library.
