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Post by the Scribe on Nov 22, 2021 2:02:14 GMT
Visiting the old homestead where relatives like Mindy roam.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 4, 2021 12:22:27 GMT
In this 1924 photo Federico "Fred" Ronstadt and his wife, Lupe, pose with their four sons, from left, Bill, Edward, Gilbert and Alfred.
Fred Ronstadt's wagon and locksmith shop at Broadway and Scott Avenue in 1897.
Advertisement for Fred Ronstadt, carriage and wagon maker, in the Arizona Daily Star, Nov. 12, 1897.
Linda Ronstadt and her father, Gilbert, at Mariachi Espectacular on April 24, 1987, at the Tucson Convention Center.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 4, 2021 18:40:33 GMT
Las Cabanas
In 1923, the Ronstadts’ longtime friend Genaro Manzo sold them 80 acres of land south of the Rillito River, in what was likely the middle of nowhere to Lupe Ronstadt.
About six years later, the Ronstadts subdivided the land, located at the northwest corner of Prince Road and Tucson Boulevard, and recorded the Sierra Vista Acres subdivision.
In time the lots were sold off but the family maintained two large lots known as Lot No. 3 and Lot No. 4, located between Jackson Avenue and Tucson Boulevard. The property in Lot No. 4 came to be called La Cabana, or The Cabin.
Front of La Cabana before entry addition, circa 1940's, with Mary Catherine, Margaret, Guadalupe and Terry Ronstadt.
The front of La Cabana after entry addition.
Fred and Lupe Ronstadt, center, with some of their grandchildren at Las Cabanas in the early 1950's. Fred Ronstadt died in 1954. Lupe Ronstadt lived until 1974.
Gilbert and his family, including Gilbert’s children Peter (who would become a Tucson police chief) and Linda (who would become an internationally acclaimed singer), had a home to the southwest of La Cabana, in Lot No. 3.
Linda's childhood home. 1946-1964
Maynard Dixon, a California-born artist, portrayed the people, land, and character of the West. He left California to work as an illustrator in New York in the early 1900s, but left because he did not like its competitive nature. In the late 1930s and 1940s, he moved West, often staying at his home in Tucson. This work features the home of his neighbors, the Ronstadt's.
Photos in the 1970s of Linda's parents home.
Linda, Dad and Mom.
Linda and Dad.
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Layout of the Ronstadt ranch buildings and new street names named for her grandparents.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 5, 2021 9:00:04 GMT
Fred and daughter Luisa Ronstadt Espinel
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 9, 2021 8:41:41 GMT
with Mary Clementine (?)
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 21, 2022 6:18:29 GMT
Linda's cute daughter, Mary Clementine with Eugene Rodriguez (Los Cenzontles) in the background
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 23, 2022 9:13:20 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 29, 2022 11:54:33 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 31, 2022 10:04:50 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 6, 2022 4:33:17 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 6, 2022 4:34:29 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 15, 2022 8:31:52 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on May 28, 2022 23:47:58 GMT
Linda's mom at her sorrority house U of A
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 28, 2022 21:13:35 GMT
A family picnic in the fall of 1903. Ronstadt’s grandfather Fred, holding the guitar at far right, has eyes only for Lupe, Ronstadt’s grandmother.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 28, 2022 21:31:50 GMT
Much of what she knew about her early family history had come from the writings of her grandfather Fred, published posthumously as a memoir, Borderman. That book gives a detailed account of the life of her great-grandfather Friedrich Augustus Ronstadt. How he immigrated to Mexico from Hanover, Germany, in the 1840s. How he served in the Mexican army. How he settled in the Sonoran pueblo of Banámachi. Borderman provides less detail about Ronstadt’s great-grandmother Margarita Redondo and the other women in her family. It became an inexplicit goal of Feels Like Home to fill in these blanks, Downes says—“to elevate and lift out the women in this story.”
To Ronstadt, Margarita had always been a solemn face gazing silently out of old black-and-white photos. Born on the Sonoran frontier, Margarita was 17 when she married Friedrich, a 50-year-old widower with four children. She had seven more children and lost three of them. One baby, Joe, died of a respiratory infection. A five-year-old son, Rodolfo, died of diphtheria. Three-year-old Armando died after he pulled a pot of scalding-hot milk onto himself. Ronstadt had heard that Margarita wrote letters and that some of her letters might have survived. Downes found them in a collection of Ronstadt family papers at the Arizona History Museum. “Her heart practically leaps off these sheets of lined paper,” Ronstadt writes. In one letter sent after Armando died, Margarita relays her torment to her son Fred. “Death would be for me the best possible relief,” she writes. “It takes a piece of my heart that I made the clumsy mistake of leaving the milk where he could reach for it.” www.vogue.com/article/linda-ronstadt-feels-like-home-interview
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