How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Scottsdale: tile, restaurant)

[Arizona Mike]

Mystery Castle, referred to above and still here:

[pbenjamin]

Originally Posted by Arizona Mike

The lobby of the old Sky Harbor Terminal (when there was just one - that's why the numbering now starts with Terminal 2). Long since torn down, but the Phoenix Bird mural is now in Terminal 2 (also scheduled for destruction).

I think you have your history a little muddled. The mural has always been in Terminal 2, it was commissioned for the terminal's opening in 1962. The picture is of Terminal 2. The artist was Paul Coze. Details here (http://www.waltlockley.com/coze/cozepublic.htm - broken link).

[ArizonaBear]

I just remembered something: in 1972 there was a movie (Cancel my Reservation) filmed here in Arizona that showed Sky Harbor, etc. Bob Hope was in it

[Arizona Mike]

Originally Posted by pbenjamin

I think you have your history a little muddled. The mural has always been in Terminal 2, it was commissioned for the terminal's opening in 1962. The picture is of Terminal 2. The artist was Paul Coze. Details here (http://www.waltlockley.com/coze/cozepublic.htm - broken link).

Thanks for the correction, I thought I remembered it in Terminal 1. Walt Lockley's site you linked to is really good, he has some great articles on Phoenix architecture

[Arizona Mike]

There was also a 1970s Albert Brooks movie ("Real Life"), a mockumentary that satirized reality television (long before such things were really popular - it was based on the Loud Family PBS series) that was filmed around the Valley, including Legend City.

[ELOrocks17]

I too am a native, and although I am not as old as some people here, I do remember things about growing up here--for example:

I remember going to Legend city every 4th of July to watch the fireworks and I have a distinct memory of watching (from a distance) one of the fireworks hitting the ground causing a fire and a crater! And i remember seeing a group of people all around it..that was probably in 1975.

I remember eating at Farrells and the Sugar Bowl in Scottsdale.

I remember attending Cherokee elementary school in Scottsdale around 1976

I watched Wallace and Ladmo and thought a ladmo bag was the greatest thing in the world.

I remeber the only things at the intersection of 32nd st and Greenway was a U-totem and karate studio on the SE corner, and a do it yourself carwash on the NW corner.

I remeber shopping at Smitty's (Mom always bought the Clover club chips)
and at Yellow front, Skaggs, AJ Bayless, TG&Y, and Gemco (on 43rd and T-bird (?)

I remember seeing "The Car" at the drive in

I remeber reading the Phoenix Gazette

Thats all i can think of for now

[Arizona Mike]

Originally Posted by ELOrocks17

I remeber the only things at the intersection of 32nd st and Greenway was a U-totem and karate studio on the SE corner, and a do it yourself carwash on the NW corner.

The U-Totem's long gone, but the karate studio's still there (my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school rented mat space in there for awhile), as is the car wash. In fact, I use the high-pressure hoses there to blast out my swimming pool filters.

[ELOrocks17]

Originally Posted by Arizona Mike

The U-Totem's long gone, but the karate studio's still there (my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school rented mat space in there for awhile), as is the car wash. In fact, I use the high-pressure hoses there to blast out my swimming pool filters.

I went to Greenway middle school back in the mid 80's (about 2 blocks away)

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by azdr0710

ArizonaMike mentioned, much earlier, about Shiprock, the ruins of a house out N 32nd St S of Lincoln/Glendale....he said it was finally torn down when 32nd was extended to Lincoln....it had become a ruin in the 50s, I think, when the house burned due, so the story goes, to wind blowing the drapes into the fireplace which was lit at the time (don't know why windows/doors were open while a fire was lit, but.....)

anybody remember when "Love and Bullets, Charlie" was filmed here?....horrible late 1970s flick with Charles Bronson....they built a replica facade of the McCune Mansion on the site of Shiprock and blew it up one evening as part of the filming....hundreds of cars were lined up along Lincoln to watch it blow....very cool.....

ArizonaMike:.....GREAT stories you have and a fun, sentimental way of telling them....thanks.....moved here in 1975 at age 12, so missed a lot of the stuff....but did get to see much...

speaking of the McCune Mansion, it's now for sale for $16 million as a fixer-upper.....you can drive right by it now, too....the old driveway to it is now a public street off N 40th St....an earlier owner (Gordon Hall) subdivided the formerly extensive acreage.....

Shiprock was owned by two sisters. The house was located just off 32nd Street, a dirt road, between Stanford and Lincoln Rd. Built about 1938 and burned down about 1940. The foundation and fireplaces were torn down because 32nd Street was paved and the house was in the way. The house was two stories with stepped wooden siding; the stone foundation at one end looked like the huge pointed bow of a ship.

[gentlearts]

I lived at 6330 N Central in 1968 for 6 months. Funny, but when I went back to visit the old place a few years ago, bulldoxers were leveling the building on that spot and it wasn't even the apartment building I used to live in. My apartment had been leveled before that building was built!
It was the year that Robert Kennedy was shot and I had an 18 mo old baby. There was a nice apartment building there with a super pool and the residents were from everywhere. There was a big orange grove across the street. What a fun time for someone like me who had never been out of New England. Cristown Mall was there, but malls in general were a very new concept.