How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (crime rate, statistics)

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Here is an odd laundromat I guess from the 60's located about 6800 South Central. I wonder if the building was originally a drive in restaurant. I used to like this type of laundry, you dropped off your clothes and they washed and folded them for a very nominal price compared to a regular laundry.
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lol before I even looked at the photo I knew it would be the Corral...yes, it was a fluff-n-fold...I used to do my laundry there when I first moved out on my own. It was the Corral for as long as I remember it which would have been about '61 or so.

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by AZDesertBrat

Yes, it was a drive in restaurant. I remember it from when I was a kid and my aunt would take me there for a hamburger. My doctor's office was near there too and my grandmother would get me a Coke after a visit...if I was a "good girl".

Was your MD Dr. Joe Delozier? He was the only MD in south Phoenix** in the very early 60's...then Dr. Joe Sabodka (sp) came in around '66. Are you talking about pre-'60's or way after that?


**I'm referring to south Phoenix below Baseline Avenue. I think his office was just below Baseline on the east side of Central...could be mistaken on the exact location.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by SuzanneDeAz

I found on Earth Google the cluster of stores that were available to residents in that area in the 50's and 60's. It used to be a grocery store, dime store and drug store. Next to the drug store, on the SE corner of 16th street and Roosevelt was a gas station. Right now it has a lot of little shops, a Family Food store and where the grocery store was there is a Wash and Dry Laundry place.

There was a gas station Wayne's Texaco on southwest corner and Circle K on the northeast corner in 1969. Buzan's Richfield was on the southeast corner.

[SuzanneDeAz]

I found this pictue online and wonder if this is Montgomery Stadium of Phoenix Union High School. I attended there in the early 60's. I also remember having Christmas parties I think that were sponsored by the JC's. I think there is a Jr. High school there from the Phoenix elementary school District.I got this picture on a web site that speaks of PU Colored high school which was renamed Carver High school, which now is a museum. If this is from the Carver school than I think that they built it in the same image as the one for PUHS as it sure looks famliar. http://www.yelp.com/biz/george-washi...center-phoenix

[AZDesertBrat]

Originally Posted by trillcatz

Was your MD Dr. Joe Delozier? He was the only MD in south Phoenix** in the very early 60's...then Dr. Joe Sabodka (sp) came in around '66. Are you talking about pre-'60's or way after that?


**I'm referring to south Phoenix below Baseline Avenue. I think his office was just below Baseline on the east side of Central...could be mistaken on the exact location.

I don't remember my doctors name. It was 1950-51 when I lived with my grandparents for a year. I was 8. His office was north of Baseline right near the Corral Drive In.

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by AZDesertBrat

I don't remember my doctors name. It was 1950-51 when I lived with my grandparents for a year. I was 8. His office was north of Baseline right near the Corral Drive In.

I moved to south Phoenix in '61 so I'm not sure. He could've been in practice then but he would've been awfully young.

It looks like the Corral Drive-In of the '50's was a laundromat by the '60's. What an odd change but now the odd configuration makes sense.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by SuzanneDeAz

I found this pictue online and wonder if this is Montgomery Stadium of Phoenix Union High School.

Montgomery Stadium was huge, it had 4 stories of classrooms and was longer than the football field.

[SuzanneDeAz]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Attachment 83153Montgomery Stadium was huge, it had 4 stories of classrooms and was longer than the football field.

Thanks, after I posted that I read somewhere that it held up to 23,000 people so I knew it was not the same one. It just looked so much like the way I remembered it, however it is much larger. Do you know if it is still there?

I also read that it was used by ASU for their games so it had to be larger. I guess they were similar being they were built about the same time for the same school district.

I found a very nice web site of PU. Home Page

I think that is why I loved East High so much as when I attended PU for two years all I did was run run run between classes. It was not uncommon to have a class on a 3rd floor in one building and the next class was on a second floor or across the bridge. One had only 5 minutes between classes. Often your locker would be in a building where you had only one class so you often did not have time to go to your locker between classes but had to carry your books with you. I had to walk back and forth to school and run all day which kept me slim but tired

[observer53]

No, Montgomery Stadium is LONG gone. I don't know what the problem is with the link you posted, so I edited it out. See if you can post just the link, without any changes in the font, etc.

[SuzanneDeAz]

Home Page

hope this works

if not try this:

Home Page

http://phoenixunioncoyotes.com/Home_Page.html