Statehood was 13 years away. Since then, we've grown more than a hundredfold. The current population is probably about 835,000. If you've been here a decade, you're an old-timer. Vehicles can be well-equipped for modern life, with cup holders, CD players, cellular telephones and, in the case of Jeanine Leverenz, a supply of baby food.
Some folks slip in and out of town without leaving any official mark.
Those who stay seldom stay in one place. More than half of us have moved in the past five years. In the nine years since the Census Bureau last counted heads in Tucson, an estimated 470,000 people have moved in and 374,000 people have left town. Some of those are obviously the same people, and a core of native sons and daughters remains to preserve and perpetuate the specialness of this place. So we took a snapshot.