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In the early 1970's the State of Arizona had big plans for American Avenue: Drive a high speed highway thru the center of town to facilitate truck traffic heading to Magma/San Manuel. Oracle residents got pissed off and decided to fight it. They made so much of a ruckus that the central planners in Phoenix had to back off. After town meetings and a big petititon drive, Oracle won. The "thru town" option was killed and the by-pass as we know it today was approved and built out a few years later.  Active Oracle citizens won a big victory. One of the first but definitely not the last.
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AuthorKaz and I moved to Oracle in 1979. The house we bought dated to the late 1940s. With little advance knowledge of the place, we set out to build a new life together, intending to settle in and raise a family. 
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