A black and white postcard of Main Street taken from across the Wallace Pool Hall in the early 1950s. Many signs can be seen. Safeway can be seen in the background beyond the Bisbee-Warren bus. J.C. Penney is on the left near the pickup truck. Many automobiles are parked on the street. The front caption in white at the bottom reads: “Street Scene-Bisbee, Arizona 6-Y-342”. 11-1955 was written in ink. The postcard is unused, and the publisher is unknown. Carl Sandquist Collection.

The Wallace Pool Hall was owned and operated by Edward Barclay Wallace and located in the Letson Block on Main Street. The establishment was in operation for sixty-nine years, from 1910 to 1979. It was considered one of the finest billiard halls in the county and pool contests were regularly held. Wallace’s Pool Hall updated its light fixtures in July 1919 among other improvements. Musicians occasionally performed there including a jazz trio of Alfred Truscott on saxophone, Eddie Becker on the piano and Joe Berggman on the drums who all performed on September 13th 1920. Edward Barcaly Wallace was born in 1881 in Kansas and moved to Bisbee in 1906 after fighting in the Spanish American War. In 1913, he married Helen Lamb and raised their children together on Higgins Hill. He enjoyed deer hunting trips with R.E.Charley, Henry Smith, Paul Frank, and Roy McCalister. Edward B. Wallace died in August 1965 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

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