Westside Enterprise (Tolleson, Ariz.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
614 issues from 1941 to 1953, published in Goodyear, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
The first issue of the weekly Tolleson Independent appeared on June 20, 1941, in Tolleson, Arizona, in Phoenix's growing West Valley. The title changed to Westside Enterprise in August 1941, and then to Westside Weekly in July 1953. From December 1953 to July 1955, the title changed back and forth between Westside Weekly and Westside Enterprise, at one point carrying both titles together before settling as Westside Enterprise in 1955.
The newspaper was filled with local news, recipes, sports, extensive movie advertisements, and a fashion column with photographs. As the West Valley grew, so did coverage of news in the paper, expanding from four pages to sixteen to twenty pages in the late 1950s, shrinking to six pages by 1963. The newspaper's slogan changed from "Devoted to Agriculture and Allied Interests of Arizona," to variations on "Devoted to the Interest of…" towns it covered in the West Valley, including Tolleson, Litchfield Park, Coldwater (later Avondale), and Goodyear. Sometimes it was simply: "Serving the Westside Since 1941." The publishing location moved from Tolleson in 1941, to Litchfield Park in September 1942, to Goodyear in July 1952.
Established when Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company purchased land to grow cotton for tires, the town of Goodyear was largely a company town, and the paper reflected this, reporting on the expansion of its operations for a contract with the Air Force and the resulting need for more housing for the expanding workforce. The…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Goodyear, Arizona, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress