2544
East Allen Road Tucson, Arizona
USA
'Valley Of The Moon
Children's Park'
The
'Valley Of The Moon
Park' in
Tucson Arizona
advertises itself as an enchanted
historic magical
fairyland promoting kindness
and
imagination to all who enter.
It began as the purchase of
two and a half [2.5] acres
of undeveloped sandy scrub desert downward
sloping land
of two
[2] adjoining parcels on a dirt road in the Drakes Addition to the
City of Tucson by Mrs. Felix B. Legler on March 24, 1919
from Mr.
W.B. & Mrs. M.V.F. Miller.
Mrs. Legler's husband George a visionary, mystic, dreamer,
and
visionary after their separation agreement
began construction on the
property in the 1920s.
The
Valley Of The Moon
Park had
its official opening
in 1932,
being added to in size with an additional land purchase of
adjoining
land by George Phar Legler on January 16, 1935.
The childrens park became
a unique concept
visualized,
designed as it went along, mostly hand built by homeless
laborers passing through town suppiled with hot meals
sometimes a bed, a
space on a floor,
or sleeping on the desert sand under the stars at
night.
At
the 1932 opening George Phar Legler through his
'Valley Of The Moon
Childrens Park' began offering
a wide varieties of
wonderous performances
and shows including tours, magic shows,
various presentations, mystical séances,
scientific and metaphysical seminars,
theatrical staged and numerous other
unique performances, educational experiences,
along with
various forms of both private and public
events for the those who visited there.
On October 10, 1945
George Phar Legler
donated/gifted the 'Valley Of The Moon Park' property
to the 'Valley Of The Moon Memorial Association'
set up as a 501(c)3 nonprofit
Arizona Corporation
George Phar Legler and legal advisors had formed
in Arizona that year
in hopes of preserving the
Valley
Of The
Moon Park property and his goals
of "Fostering
tolerance and brotherly love for all of humankind,
regardless of their
race, creed, or their color."
Valley Of The Moon
Over almost four decades 'Valley Of
The Moon Childrens Park'
became a focus of
numerous news
and magazine
publication articles locally and nation-wide,
including a 1953 four [4] full page feature in
LIFE Magazine,
features in other
national, regional, and local magazines,
along
with at times some nationwide historical
preservation interest
of private and governmental groups and efforts.
The 'Valley
Of The Moon Park'
a decades effort
originally imagined, began, and operated
as the visionary project of then
Tucson Arizona resident
George Phar Legler
along
with the help
of his
supporters
continued.
George Phar Legler
'The Wizard'
With One Of His
Favorite 'Actors'
2020s
Valley Of The Moon.Com Publicity Photo
The
Valley
Of The Moon Park in
Tucson Arizona
is a
reminder of the many efforts of its creator
George Phar Legler,
to those homeless laborers and local citizens
that worked and
donated the building materials
that make it all possible.
Please
tell them the Tucson Museum sent you,
And be sure to
ask them: "Where's George?"
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