A black and white photo postcard of Mrs. Rast and her two young children circa 1917. They lived on Laundry Hill. The postcard is unused, and the publisher is unknown. Ida Power collection.

In late December 1922, Laundry Hill residents dissatisfaction with the name led to a committee being formed which included J.J. Dugal, James Malley and Gus Haiger. They gathered many signatures on a petition for city council to change Laundry Hill to a more pleasing sounding “Garden Heights”. Despite their best efforts, the name remained. Though lacking a better name, three flights of new stairs were added to Laundry Hill in the same year. On March 26th 1975 a storm hit Bisbee. Powerful winds reaching 50 miles an hour blew down a small building on top of a nearby home on Laundry Hill.

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