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

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by desertratz

You young un's...............I started out with a 4 Track tape player and wore out my Cream and Doors tapes at the river.

http://www.8trackheaven.com/4track.html (broken link)

lol I remember 4 tracks but I think it was early 60's wasn't it and I didn't get into music until '64. I'm not even sure when 8 tracks came out...I was really into vinyl until cassettes came out. I listened to the radio in the car...shoot, I thought FM was big!

[Outatime97]

Originally Posted by Donalumni

I'm sorry but my vote for good fried shrimp was Pete's Fish and Chips on the NW corner of Van Buren and 36th St. just west and across 36th St. from the Phoenix Drive In Theater. Nobody seems to remember it and say it's across Van Buren and east down by Bills Johnson's original restaraunt. It is there now but originally was as where I described. I lived on 35th st. and Pierce and remember walking down in second grade at Davey Crockett school (still there) to get lunch. I was pretty independent and didn't like the cafeteria food. There was a food market on 35th and Van Buren (nw corner) where we could get a hershey bar for a nickel. We also walked to an old market (even back then it was old) just south of Roosevelt on the east side of 32nd St. and it had wood floors. It's still there as a hispanic food market and there was an old grain silo behind it. I remember I saw my first Balsa wood airplane there in the little plastic bag with the plastic propeller and rubber band. The miracle in getting the little balsa plane together was stuffing the wing and tail feathers thru the flat body of the plane and still be in one piece. Life was so simple then and the plane would cost you .15 cents and provide days of pleasure in the summer sun flying it with just your shorts on and a pair of flip flops.

Yes, I remember the Pete's on the north side of the road. It caught fire in the mid/late 70's and they built the new one across and down the street. Not sure what the little store south of Roosevelt on 32nd st. may have been called before, but when I lived in that neighborhood, it was Danny's market.

[Donalumni]

Originally Posted by trillcatz

lol I remember 4 tracks but I think it was early 60's wasn't it and I didn't get into music until '64. I'm not even sure when 8 tracks came out...I was really into vinyl until cassettes came out. I listened to the radio in the car...shoot, I thought FM was big!

I had a factory 8 track in my 66 Mustang so they were around then.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by Donalumni

I had a factory 8 track in my 66 Mustang so they were around then.

I had a 1957 Chrysler 300 with that odd Highway Hi Fi record player in it, so that would be before the 8 tracks of the 60's. The record player only played records put out by Chrysler, mostly classical, Gene Autry, Disney, 101 Strings and so on. The heavy stylus wore the grooves out pretty fast.

[PattyJ]

Does anybody remember where the Cactus Riding Stables, were located in North East Phoenix in the 1960's

[katidid7]

played in that hole all the time.......also used to be sheep in the field there by pt coe school

[1937Gal]

Originally Posted by 1937Gal

I called my 85 year old uncle on this memory just tonight... he said that my mother (his sister) would drive us to the Ice House East of 19th ave, south of Grand Ave, they would get the block of ice and he was allowed to drive home. He said that is how he learned to drive...so he has fond memories of that ice house.

I am cleaning up my desktop and I keep running into this photo I took of a small pin that belonged to my grandfather. Many posts back there were discussions on the ice companies in Phoenix, and although most of us recalled The Ice House, some of us wondered about the ice house just south of Grand Avenue, east of 19th Avenue. My Uncle tells me that my grandfather worked at Union Ice for many years. This pin was an anniversary pin with 2 small diamonds for the years of service.
IMG]http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee317/crayola58a/UnionIceCompany.jpg[/IMG]

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

I had a 1957 Chrysler 300 with that odd Highway Hi Fi record player in it, so that would be before the 8 tracks of the 60's. The record player only played records put out by Chrysler, mostly classical, Gene Autry, Disney, 101 Strings and so on. The heavy stylus wore the grooves out pretty fast.

Didn't 4-track come out before 8 or am I confused?

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by PattyJ

Does anybody remember where the Cactus Riding Stables, were located in North East Phoenix in the 1960's

Wow! I sure remember the name...I'm thinking I went riding there as a kid but have no mental photo at all. That wasn't the stable out on Washington was it? I sure remember the name...was it out by Cactus Rd?

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by trillcatz

Didn't 4-track come out before 8 or am I confused?

4-track was the brain child of Earl "mad man" Muntz in the first half of the 1960's. Bill Lear of Lear Jet fame was licensed as a distributor and improved on the design and came up with 8-track. Ford Motor Company liked the 8-tracks and started making them an option in their cars around 65 or 66. The 4-tracks had better sound quality, but this was just an early version of the Beta vs VHS or the Blu Ray vs Super DVD.