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Old 08-04-2013, 12:50 AM
 
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Looks about 100 times more livelier and probably much more fun than it is now.
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Old 08-04-2013, 03:59 PM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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It's sad to think that historic buildings here were demolished in favor of urban sprawl. Unfortunately that urban sprawl mentality still exists with blighted areas that could have been updated and preserved abandoned all over town .
Yep, that's what expansive sprawl tends to: shift the residential areas & shopping to the 'burbs, leaving downtown with primarily office buildings, and not much character other than that. As a result, commute times increase, traffic becomes congested, the urban core goes dead at night, and many established areas become blighted.

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I bet most of the newbies don't realize Phoenix had cable cars at one time.
I know ... they were called street trolleys. The lines were all removed sometime after WWII, about the time when the automobile became the primary mode of transportation and suburban sprawl was beginning to catch on.

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Looks about 100 times more livelier and probably much more fun than it is now.
Hard to believe that downtown Phoenix was a very bustling area some 60 or 70 years ago. Even the opening scenes of the movie "Psycho" showed downtown as pretty bustling in 1960. It was still considered a small city back then, but there was very little sprawl unlike what we have today.
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Old 08-05-2013, 08:42 AM
 
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Looks so much more walk friendly! I always hated pulling into parking lots when in Phx.
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