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Glendale’s Forgotten Rise and Fall | Mesa News
Glendale’s wild past comes alive in this episode: from 1905, when Stanford grad Victor Messinger launched the town’s first library and became its first clerk, to the railroad’s boom that fueled agriculture. Horses ruled the dusty streets, the Gillett Building stood tall with a basement wildcat for security, and irrigation canals were summer cool-down spots. Ostrich ranches faded after WWI, schools grew so crowded they built 36 one-room classrooms, and truckers like Ray Lehman kept commerce rolling. By 1920, Glendale shipped more produce than any other Arizona town—especially cantaloupes…
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