Resource Guides: History: Sun City

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"Sun City"

Phoenix, AZ 1960

"retirement communit*"

views on aging

Sunbelt
In Encyclopedia of American Environmental History in American History Online
SUN CITY, ARIZONA | History

Vision USA, No. 88, 1985. United States Information Agency, 1985. Accessed December 9, 2014. http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/1789962.

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Caring for the Aged by Fiona Van Zwanenberg
Call Number: 306.3 VAN
ISBN: 0531171906
Publication Date: 1989-01-01

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