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

[AZDesertBrat]

Originally Posted by observer53

I've got a better one than that. When I was five, my mother's car was stolen. I was the youngest in the family by at least five years, and the ONLY one in the family who knew the license number. And, over 50 years later, I STILL remember that license number. The brain really is a fascinating thing.

Yes, I DO remember that. And back then, there wasn't a clock in every room on the wall or as part of some electronic device, so we actually needed to use that number, especially after a power outage.

Crazy as it is, I still remember both my phone and license plate numbers from when I lived in Oregon in the 60s. I couldn't tell you what my license plate number is NOW! lol I wonder why our brain remembers some things like that and not others. Hmmmm...

[learicalAZ]

Originally Posted by Chrisxxx

Climate Control had a little jingle that went, "Applegate eighty-eight ninety and a one, that's Climate Control."

Desertspiritsteve's post last October (10-10-10) remembered the jingle as "APplegate 88 50 and a one", and I thought it was AP-88-60-1.

Roosevelt, would you be so kind as to break out one of the old phone books and set us all right?

[observer53]

Originally Posted by SluggoF16

While we're on to the change from letters/number to all numbers, when did Scottsdale change from its own addresses to the Phoenix numbering system? It seems to have been 1960 or so, as the home I grew up in had a different address when it was first built that year. It may just have been that particular subdivision near 82nd and Camelback.

I'm thinking sometime early 60's would be about right.

[tom85014]

Originally Posted by Westside Willie

There is an AZ history book at the Phx library that (incorrectly) shows Grace Court having been demolished sometimes back in the 1970's

dummies

Here are two more photos - the first photo is probably 90 plus years old - interesting to look at the students clothes and the landscape in the background.

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by tom85014

Here are two more photos - the first photo is probably 90 plus years old - interesting to look at the students clothes and the landscape in the background.

Ever notice how many older ladies who were teachers back then were "Miss"? I remember a number of age 40+ who never married when I was in school in the 60's. I wonder why that was...it doesn't seem to be that way now.

[Chrisxxx]

Originally Posted by trillcatz

Ever notice how many older ladies who were teachers back then were "Miss"? I remember a number of age 40+ who never married when I was in school in the 60's. I wonder why that was...it doesn't seem to be that way now.

My thinking is that back then women either got married and became housewives and mothers or they devoted their lives to their students as teachers. Being a teacher was one of a very few occupations outside the home that were socially acceptable for women back then.

[Westside Willie]

Originally Posted by SluggoF16

Who's the guy with the glasses in the middle behind Michael Landon?

Thats Brian Donohue. Read about him here at Wallace Watchers
WallaceWatchers.com:: Wallace and Ladmo Official Site

[SluggoF16]

Originally Posted by Westside Willie

Thats Brian Donohue. Read about him here at Wallace Watchers
WallaceWatchers.com:: Wallace and Ladmo Official Site

I THOUGHT it was the guy who played Harvey Trundel (from the noon-time Ladmo Show) but the glasses threw me. Now I remember Clifton Flowers the face, not the name. He bears an uncanny resemblance to a Mississippi rockabilly artist named Webb Wilder. Thanks for the info.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by learicalAZ

Desertspiritsteve's post last October (10-10-10) remembered the jingle as "APplegate 88 50 and a one", and I thought it was AP-88-60-1.

Roosevelt, would you be so kind as to break out one of the old phone books and set us all right?

Climate Control
2222 Black Canyon Hwy
AP 8-8501
Airtemp division Chrysler Corp.

[Chrisxxx]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Climate Control
2222 Black Canyon Hwy
AP 8-8501
Airtemp division Chrysler Corp.

Well darn! I remembered incorrectly.