This is a picture of main street in the old copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, taken just after sundown. The evening lights have just been turned on. All the buildings seen here are well over 100 years old, and are still in use today. The building on the left is both a library and the town post office; it dates from 1906. There is no mail delivery in Bisbee, as it's very hilly with steep climbs necessary to get to most of the houses. The residents have been picking up their mail from their PO boxes at the post office / library since it was built by the Phelps Dodge Mining Company. The bank on the right pre-dates the post office, and originally housed the Bank of Bisbee. It was taken over by the Bank of America at the time of this picture, and is now occupied by Western Bank. My mother was born here in 1912, when electric street cars were in use up and down this street. Bisbee was the major supplier of copper for the war effort during WWI.

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