Question about why old newspapers keep naming the same street corner in every moon landing photo debate
I fell down a rabbit hole last week after a buddy in Tucson sent me a 1969 newspaper clip about the Apollo 11 broadcast, and I noticed the same street corner address showed up in three different letters to the editor that month. I started pulling old microfilm from the library downtown and found that same address tied to a printing shop that shut down in 1971. Here is the trick that actually worked: instead of reading the articles, I just tracked the street addresses in the classifieds and cross checked them against city records online. Turns out 14 of the 30 letters I looked at came from two blocks near that shop, which is weird for a national debate about moon photos. I am not saying it proves anything big, but it made me wonder how much of what gets called a debate is just a few people writing to each other. Has anyone else tried chasing addresses instead of names when they dig into old paper trails like this?