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CONTENTS Contributors - Christian Lestinsky & Marcus Reichley From The Editor: Amassing Aggregates at Mealtime: Tabby Construction - Douglas Towne Construction Around Arizona: Projects • People • Practices Back When: A Playhouse of Hope for Phoenix’s Youngest Patients - Billy Horner Arizona Sand & Rock Company: The First 30 Years (1927–1957) - Billy Horner Arizona Sand & Rock Company: The Second Chapter Billy Horner Al Carter: The Innovator Behind Arizona Sand & Rock Company - Billy Horner The Slawson Family: From Ahwatukee Ranch to Arizona Sand & Rock - Billy Horner Mystery Castle: South Phoenix’s Enigmatic Hand-Built Folk-Art Masterpiece - Douglas Towne Saluting Arizona’s Builders: Jeanette E. Daley Donna Reiner Old School Equipment: Arizona Bulldozers Feeding Crushers - Billy Horner Building on the Past: 1948 – From Soap Box Thrills to a Judge’s Bench: The Jim Carter Story - Billy Horner Architect’s Perspective: Antelope Canyon Informs Architecture - Doug Sydnor, FAIA Digging Through the Archives: Al Carter’s “Sidewalk Paver” Debuts in Tempe - Billy Horner Bid Results Advertising Index
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n this issue, we’re spotlighting one of the literal foundations of construction: aggregates. River-deposited sand and gravel are the default choice for mixing with cement to make concrete, though some use the crushed, jagged rock produced by Salt River Materials. Personally, I prefer what’s left on my plate after a seaside oyster meal. My history with the delicious bivalve goes back to Christmas Eves in Denver.
Before I was born, my family had to cancel a trip to Nebraska to visit relatives. Erma Towne, my mother, asked what she could prepare to make up for the abandoned trip. My siblings, Linda and Mark, said, “Pizza!” and my father, Robert, asked for fried oysters. I was fortunate to grow up with such delights while awaiting Santa. For years, we went to Oliver’s Meat Market on Sixth Avenue in the Mile High City to have oysters
ladled from a huge canister into pint-sized containers for cooking at home. That fried-oyster holiday tradition continues in my family to this day. Since this auspicious introduction to what many consider a slimy, unpalatable seafood, I’ve made many pilgrimages to enjoy them fried or raw on the half-shell, most recently at Felix’s in New Orleans’ French Quarter, where the employees often break into song while shucking the bivalves. Another unforgettable experience took place in an industrial setting in Bay City, Oregon, where I savored fried oysters while watching, through glass windows, teams of shuckers fill jars at the facility. Shucking is an art, but it is also hard, repetitive work. Away from the dinner table, oysters
Horton House on Jekyll Island, Georgia, 2025. Images Courtesy of Author
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Top: Jarred oysters shucked by workers at Pacific Seafood, 2018. Right: Author next to an oyster shell mound at Pacific Oyster in Bay City, Oregon, 2018.
serve as invaluable biological filters, processing about 50 gallons of water each day in marsh environments, removing nitrogen, phosphorus, and other harmful minerals and incorporating them into their shells. Oyster shells were used as both concrete and aggregate in a building method known as tabby construction. The building material was popular along the South Atlantic Coast with the Spanish and British during the colonial era. Native American shell middens often provided the raw material for tabby, including large ones in St. Augustine, Florida, and Beaufort, South Carolina. Colonists burned oyster shells to produce quicklime, then mixed the quicklime with water, sand, ash, and broken oyster shells. The mixture was poured or tamped
into wooden forms called cradles, built up nearby historic ruins of the Horton House, in layers like rammed earth. Tabby was used built using tabby construction in 1743 by in place of bricks because the region lacked Major William Horton, the island’s first clay, and it was also English resident. Horapplied like concrete for OYSTER SHELLS WERE USED AS ton, a Renaissance Man floors, foundations, colknown as the “Georgia BOTH CONCRETE AND AGGREGATE version of Thomas Jefferumns, and roofs. In 2025, I became IN A BUILDING METHOD KNOWN son,” lived in the house acquainted with tabby until he died in 1749. AS TABBY CONSTRUCTION. construction during a trip In 1898, locals stato Savannah, Georgia. bilized the historic While touring the Lowcountry, we stopped two-story building by rebuilding a wall and at the bucolic Jekyll Island, where a mem- recoating the house with stucco. The Hororable airport sign read “11 feet above ton House’s orange color comes from the sea level.” local sand used in the stucco. I’m a fan of After making a mental note not to buildings that seem an outgrowth of the buy any real estate, no matter how lovely earth, like adobe, but tabby is an even more the coastal neighborhood, we toured the delicious example of this local, sustainable building material. For those more intrigued by the culinary intricacies of oysters than their construction uses, my lovely wife has perfected a simple method for frying the bivalves: dust with flour, dip in an egg wash, coat with panko crumbs, and fry in sizzling vegetable oil. The resulting oysters can be eaten plain with salt and pepper, or with a few drops of lemon juice, Tabasco sauce, or cocktail sauce. An accompanying glass of white wine is preferred but optional. Best of all, you can tell people you’re conducting construction research while enjoying this epicurean delight. Left: Author with a dozen oysters on the half shell at Felix’s in New Orleans 2023.
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onstruction on a new concourse at Terminal 3 in Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport marks the latest phase of a long-term effort to expand capacity at one of the country’s busiest airports. Sky Harbor is also beginning the earliest phases of construction on a new terminal, which Mayor Kate Gallego announced in her 2024 State of the City address would include a new Customs facility to increase the airport’s international flight capacity. Construction on the “West Terminal” could begin as early as 2029 and potentially open in 2033, according to City of Phoenix officials. Anticipation of the new terminal comes as Arizona recently became home to the ARIZCC.COM
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largest single foreign direct investment in U.S. history, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)’s $165 billion commitment to the state. Although it’s still too early in the planning process for details on the West Terminal to be clear, Sky Harbor and Red Brick Consulting representatives shared with Arizona Contractor & Community details on the ongoing construction at Sky Harbor, which will expand capacity at Terminal 3, its smallest terminal. Changes include Terminal 3 expansion and the West Taxiway The $326 million Terminal 3 expansion is expected to be completed in 2027 and will add six new gates in the form of a single-sided concourse on the north side of the terminal. The expansion also includes space for a future post-security tunnel to Terminal 4, bypassing the need to take a train between the terminals, which only exists
Construction of the new six-gate Terminal 3 expansion and associated runway.
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he quiet parking lot beside the state Developmental Disabilities building on Garfield Street and 19th Street in Phoenix gives little hint of the laughter and excitement that once filled the air there. But on that corner in 1949, something extraordinary was taking place, the construction of the Crippled Children’s Playhouse, a small structure with a huge heart. George Campbell, the director of the Arizona Society for Crippled Children, conceived of the idea for the playhouse and served as the project chairman. The
Crippled Children’s Hospital was built in 1942 by the Works Progress Administration, a federally funded agency, and served children with physical disabilities. Campbell saw the need for a space where young patients could simply be children, where recovery could be mixed with imagination and joy. When Campbell approached the Phoenix Junior Chamber of Commerce, the community responded with open arms. Contractors, materials companies, and workers from across the city volunteered their time and supplies. The general contractor, E.W. Duhame, led the effort and construction crew to help bring the playhouse to life. Local contractors like the Arizona Sand & Rock Co. and Acme Materials, two friendly
competing firms in the ready-mix business, located directly across from each other along Seventh Street and the Salt River, both supplied concrete. Designed by Robert Wilhem, the 14-by-16-foot structure was modest in size but monumental in spirit. Construction took just two days and about $2,000 in supplies. Arizona Governor Daniel Garvey and other dignitaries attended the groundbreaking. Children on site enjoyed the progress and watched in delight as concrete trucks, escorted by police motorcycles, arrived to pour the foundation of their new playhouse. Years later, the playhouse was demolished to make way for a parking lot. Youngsters with disabilities are now supported by the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs, a sub-agency of the Arizona Department of Health Services. Below: Children watch as an Arizona Sand & Rock Co. mixer delivers “Premix Hy-Strength” concrete for their new playhouse, 1949. Image Courtesy of Arizona Contractor & Community
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he cacophony of mid-century bulldozers, iron giants with their noisy engines, plumes of black exhaust, faded paint, and squeaky, steadfast tracks, once filled Arizona’s aggregate sites. These machines were essential to crushing operations, pushing vast quantities of rock into crushers that turned the raw material into aggregates, which are essential for modern infrastructure. Although modern, high-tech equipment is now used in crushing operations, there remains a proud legacy of these vintage bulldozers and their talented operators. In aggregate operations, the bulldozer’s job was to move rock, gravel, and sand from extraction sites to the crusher. Equipped with a massive steel blade, the bulldozer was controlled by hydraulics or, in older
models, heavy cables, and it pushed raw material into stockpiles or directly onto conveyor belts leading to the crushers. This process demanded both power and precision. Skilled operators had to level the material evenly, maintaining a steady feed to maximize the crusher’s efficiency. A well-fed crusher meant uninterrupted productivity, and for that, a bulldozer was indispensable for the repetitive work. Vintage bulldozers were mechanical marvels of simplicity and strength. Brands such as Allis-Chalmers, Caterpillar, and International Harvester were widely used in Arizona aggregate operations and could withstand punishing conditions for hours on end. Their simple, durable designs meant fewer breakdowns and minimal downtime—qualities every quarry manager valued.
Back then, operators’ cabs lacked comfortable seats and climate-controlled interiors. The machines, though top-ofthe-line at the time, were still primitive, and operating conditions could be hot, freezing, and almost always dusty. Moreover, operators had to balance the gears that controlled the cables moving the heavy front blade. After all that, most machines ran until a shift was completed, as there were no electric starters, only the cumbersome gas pony motors to turn over the flywheel. Arizona’s operators often recalled how these machines would labor tirelessly through heat and dust, pushing tons of rock. Their tracks provided unbeatable traction on rough terrain, and their engines, though noisy and smoke-belching, would sometimes overheat but rarely fail. Despite today’s technological advances, some vintage bulldozers remain in use. For equipment enthusiasts, the sound of these machines in action is instantly recognizable and remains a powerful link to our bygone industrial age. Image Courtesy of Paul C. Helmick
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Left: Contractor Paul C. Helmick using an AllisChalmers bulldozer during crushing operations, 1966. Above: New Pueblo Constructors crushing operations on State Route 82 near Patagonia, 1964. Right: New Pueblo Constructors using a Caterpillar D8 bulldozer and Michigan loader on Interstate 19 and Ruby Road near Nogales, 1966. Below: Advertisement for Allis-Chalmers HD-21 bulldozer, showing one pushing material to a crusher, 1958.
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Sharp Creek Contracting 602-437-3040 sharpcreek.com
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Curry Supply 800-345-2829 currysupply.com
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Landco Power 480-788-1333 landcorental.com
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Sitech Southwest 602-691-7501 sitechsw.com
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MARCH APRIL 2026
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EXCAVATORS DOZERS CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT
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Options: Slopeboard, Winch
COMPACTORS CAT CAT CAT CAT
825K/H 815K/F2 CP56 CS56
GPS, Straight, Tilt GPS, Straight, Tilt 84” Padfoot 84” Smooth Drum
LOADERS CAT 980M CAT 966M CAT 950M Compact Models Now Available
7-8 yd 5 yd 4 yd
CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT JD
3.5 yd 3 yd
938 930 299 Skid Steer 255 Skid Steer 415 Skip Loader 210 Skip Loader
CAT 745 Next Gen CAT 740B CAT 621G CAT 725C CAT 613C II WATER TOWER
9,000 gal 8,000 gal 8,000 gal 6,000 gal 5,000 gal 12,000 gal
Greater Phoenix Wyn Henderson (602) 762-6438
190,000 lb 145,000 lb 115,000 lb 110,000 lb 110,000 lb 87,000 lb 82,000 lb 82,000 lb 80,000 lb 78,000 lb 65,000 lb 54,000 lb 54,000 lb
CAT CAT CAT
34,000 lb 18,500 lb 11,000 lb
315FL CR 308E2 CR 305E2 CR
Options: Thumb, Hammer, Vibraplate, Wheel, Ripper Shank, Skeleton Bucket, Rubber Pads, Sheet Pile Driver
SCRAPERS
Options: Forks, Boom, Side Dump, Skeleton Bucket, Scales
WATER EQUIPMENT
CAT 385CL CAT 365CL CAT 352FL CAT 349 Next Gen, GPS CAT 349FL, GPS CAT 340 Next Gen CAT 336 Next Gen, GPS CAT 336FL, GPS CAT 335FL CR, GPS CAT 328DL CR CAT 326FL Long Reach 60’ CAT 325FL CR, GPS CAT 321DL CR Compact Models Now Available
CAT CAT CAT CAT
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34 yd, Open Bowl 24 yd, Push Pull 23 yd, Elevating 11 yd, Elevating
MOTOR GRADERS CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT
14 Next Gen GPS, 16 ft, Rippers 14M GPS, 16 ft, Rippers 150 Next Gen GPS, 14 ft, Rippers 140M3 GPS, 14 ft, Rippers 140LVR (Levers) GPS, 14 ft, Rippers
Phoenix-Tucson Leo Krueger (520) 940-1915
ARTICULATED TRUCKS CAT CAT CAT
Phoenix-Prescott Keith Richard (480) 456-6699
745 Next Gen 740B 730 Next Gen
45.2 ton, 34.7 yd 43.5 ton, 33.5 yd 21.0 ton, 23.0 yd
Greater Phoenix Pete Costa (480) 433-8833