Summer 2019 issue shows Pinal Ways is going places
Pinal County was a much different place 60 years ago, and it had little to do with the internet.
The interstate highway system was built in the 1960s, and it has since changed our lives and culture by increasing our reliance on cars and killing small towns as Americans knew them in the early to middle 1900s.
When people could so easily jump into their cars and drive to the big city, a lot of the foot traffic and mom-and-pop businesses in small towns died. People started working and shopping farther away from home. Communities such as Coolidge were affected.
