Talk:List of historic properties in Casa Grande, Arizona

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Johnston's Grocery Store

Hey, a non-logged-in editor, who I assume to be a good-faith would-be contributor, added information about Johnston's Grocery Store having been mislabelled as "Johnson's Grocery Store", plus other information. I moved what they posted in the article to here, here is what they stated:

This should be JOHNSTON'S Grocery Store. Owner for 15 years (1920-1935), George Washington "G.W." Johnston was murdered in this store for $13 at age 64, dying the next night on July 10, 1935 at 6:40 pm: The son of the owner (and informant on his death certificate), Arthur Leroy "Art" Johnston, wrote in his 1978 autobiography about "Johnston's Grocery" (mistakenly labeled by Casa Grande Historic Buildings as "Johnson's" Grocery Store):

"In 1920, two years after my mother died, we moved from Conde, South Dakota to 301 N. Picacho Street ("$30/month rental" on 1920 Census), Casa Grande, Arizona, where my widower father had a store. My father ran a so-called all-around store. In those days they didn't have any shopping centers, but that's what it was, in a small way. He handled everything from meat to groceries to hardware."

MORE ON ROBBERY/MURDER:

In Casa Grande, Arizona, George ("G.W." to the world) purchased an all-around store on the southeast corner of N. Picacho Street and E. 3rd Street in 1920. This store included groceries as well as clothing and other dry goods. It was here on July 9, 1935, that he was attacked by two robbers and struck with a lead pipe. A gentleman coming in to make a purchase found him barely conscious in the back of the store; he summoned for help, and George was taken to the local hospital. Unfortunately, George was too critically injured (cerebral concussion) and died the next evening. What was supposed to be a simple robbery then became homicide. Eventually the two were caught, and the younger of the two assailants confessed. They were tried and convicted. The one who struck the blow received the gas chamber and the other life in prison.

Please let's try to sort out the facts here. One way forward would be to identify sources, such as the probably-available NRHP nomination document, to be discussed here. Also, I assume they're right and will change this list-article to show "Johnston". Please respect this and discuss here. --Doncram (talk) 23:29, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Okay I see what is displayed now is that it is listed as "Johnston's" and then it is accurately stated that it was listed on the National Register as "Johnson's". This may be covered at Johnston's Grocery Store (currently a redlink) with Johnson's Grocery Store (now a redlink, probably should be a redirect).

For the record, the National Register has made many many errors in site naming, documented at wp:NRIS info issues (Wikipedia-space nation-wide index of errors) and wp:NRIS info issues AZ (Arizona sublist). WikiProject NRHP editors usually note the error and, if possible, supporting evidence about the error there, and present the believed-to-be correct info in mainspace. A footnote can be used to explain about there being discrepancies, but the correct info is to be put forward most prominently.

About this one, it seems there is not a separate NRHP nomination, but rather the Arizona state historic property inventory form about the site, which carries what is apparently the typo.

I wonder, is there some way we can find someone with access to historic newspapers to use as sources? --Doncram (talk) 23:40, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

development

This list-article properly has a lot of red-links, because it properly links to many topics of NRHP places, which can have separate articles. The redlinks have been deleted and restored one or two times now. Please don't delete them again. It takes work to put them in and fix them so they link correctly, avoiding disambiguation links. If you don't like redlinks, then please cooperate in turning them blue, i.e. in developing separate articles for them, using the available online NRHP documents and photos. Tips for developing NRHP articles are covered at wp:NRHPhelp.

I would be happy to collaborate in developing these, if anyone else is. Perhaps a good one to start with is Johnson's Grocery Store, as named by the NRHP perhaps erroneously (see above section). It is currently a redlink. I'll start it now. Help developing it would be appreciated. --Doncram (talk) 22:33, 20 March 2018 (UTC)