The success of the Toggery enabled Johnson to become a major investor in downtown Mesa real estate. When the Emporium mercantile housed in the 1905, two-story, brick-clad LeSueur Building west of ...

So, McPhee devised a novel scheme to fill downtown Mesa with shoppers. Over the years Saint Nick had visited Mesa, but never arrived in this spectacular way. By the 1930’s aviation had come into ...