How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Glendale: usage, Saturday)

[slowesthand]

Originally Posted by jukebox47

Here is a Pic of the Mustang Motorcycles Poster.

http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/...f/MVC-541S.jpg

Those Mustangs looked like they were bad a## bikes in there day.

I remember as a kid going to Sears and drooling over thr Allstate mopeds!

[jukebox47]

Originally Posted by slowesthand

Those Mustangs looked like they were bad a## bikes in there day.

I remember as a kid going to Sears and drooling over thr Allstate mopeds!

If you went to the Sears in downtown Phoenix I was hanging around there too dreaming of a new bike instead of the junkers I had. It seems like the bikes were in the basement. The Sears parts department was on East Henshaw (now Buckeye Road). I was a good customer; my Allstates always needed parts.

I had an Allstate (Puch) moped and several of the bigger 175cc bikes. Puch was made in Austria; the twin cylinder machines had a single combustion chamber that both pistons shared so only one sparkplug. I hated mixing oil and gas.

[Dave Bob]

Originally Posted by papergypsy

Behind Town and Country was a small 9 hole golf course called Milky Way Golf Course. I remember huge nets that kept balls from flying onto 20th Street and into the elementary school at 20th and Campbell. Across the street from the school was Dick Smith Swim Gym, and it is where I learned to swim in 1956. Dick Smith went on to become the coach of the US Olympic women's diving team in 1964 and the coach of the men's team in 1968.

Dick Smith's was quite a popular place. I learned to swim there too, and my friend and his dad took judo lessons. Mothers could sit in a glass-walled area near the front and watch their kids in the pool.
I think one of the divers Smith was coaching at the time was Bernie Wrightson, who won an Olympic medal.

Do you remember Bool's cactus nursery on the south side of Camelback about 28th St?

[Commander Max]

Anybody remember Pugzie's?

Sadly they are shutting down on the 31st(10/31/2012).
After 31 years of being in business.
The reason is the owners are retiring, the building is going to be replaced with apartments.

I'll sure miss them, they were one of the best sandwich shops in Phoenix.

[observer53]

Originally Posted by Commander Max

Anybody remember Pugzie's?

Sadly they are shutting down on the 31st(10/31/2012).
After 31 years of being in business.
The reason is the owners are retiring, the building is going to be replaced with apartments.

I'll sure miss them, they were one of the best sandwich shops in Phoenix.

Major bummer! I used to eat there a lot when I worked just a block or so away. I've been there a few times in the last several years, as I'm not in that neighborhood any more. I'll try to stop in for one last lunch!

[SluggoF16]

In 1982 Pugzie's was considered eclectic... I stopped in a couple times when I worked at 32nd and Thomas as a delivery driver, on the recommendation of my boss. Some of our deliveries were to 16th and Glendale and I'd time them to be around lunch time.

Add that to other old memories going away, like Graham's Fruit Stand and their date shakes.

[kgb1956]

I worked for a beverage distributor briefly in Tempe and then started my own small beverage company, Monarch Beverage Group, in Gilbert for a couple of years until 2005 and Pugzie's was a customer. I seem to remember they did a lot of business lunch deliveries. Nice people, good food, and sorry to see them close. I downloaded a menu for the memory. I just wish I'd have kept a few for some of my more favorite closed restaurants I frequented such as Reuben's Plankhouse in Tempe, Bravino's in Chandler, and Dog 'N Suds on Stapley Dr. in Mesa.

[papergypsy]

Originally Posted by Dave Bob

Dick Smith's was quite a popular place. I learned to swim there too, and my friend and his dad took judo lessons. Mothers could sit in a glass-walled area near the front and watch their kids in the pool.
I think one of the divers Smith was coaching at the time was Bernie Wrightson, who won an Olympic medal.

Do you remember Bool's cactus nursery on the south side of Camelback about 28th St?

Yes, definitely remember the cactus nursery. I also remember there was a night club on the SE corner of Camelback and 24th - I think it was called KoKo's (?) I remember my folks went there one night in the late 50's to see Lily St. Cyr do her striptease act in her acrylic bathtub. There were also date and citrus stands lining the south side of Camelback from about 26th to 32nd. They would be open during the "colder months" when the snowbirds came to town. They could buy gift packs of fruits to send to their friends and relatives back home. Every year we would go to one stand that was owned by friends of my grandparents and buy those round plastic tubes you could stick into an orange and use to drink out all the juice.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by papergypsy

Yes, definitely remember the cactus nursery. I also remember there was a night club on the SE corner of Camelback and 24th - I think it was called KoKo's (?) I remember my folks went there one night in the late 50's to see Lily St. Cyr do her striptease act in her acrylic bathtub. There were also date and citrus stands lining the south side of Camelback from about 26th to 32nd. They would be open during the "colder months" when the snowbirds came to town. They could buy gift packs of fruits to send to their friends and relatives back home. Every year we would go to one stand that was owned by friends of my grandparents and buy those round plastic tubes you could stick into an orange and use to drink out all the juice.

Courtesy of acmeron, whose website is long gone.

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by kgb1956

I worked for a beverage distributor briefly in Tempe and then started my own small beverage company, Monarch Beverage Group, in Gilbert for a couple of years until 2005 and Pugzie's was a customer. I seem to remember they did a lot of business lunch deliveries. Nice people, good food, and sorry to see them close. I downloaded a menu for the memory. I just wish I'd have kept a few for some of my more favorite closed restaurants I frequented such as Reuben's Plankhouse in Tempe, Bravino's in Chandler, and Dog 'N Suds on Stapley Dr. in Mesa.

Bravino's!!!................used to be my favorite hangout when I lived in Chandler in the early - mid 70's. They had the best sausage pizza I've ever had and haven't found anyone else that even comes close! I remember they got one of the first Pong consoles when they first came out. A friend of ours, who'd recently broken his leg, streaked Bravino's on a saturday night while on crutches. He even made into the back dining room. That really lit the crowd up, as if we needed an excuse anyway?

I used to frequent Dog N' Suds frequently also. They were behind the Circle K on the SW corner of Stapley and Broadway, facing onto Stapley Dr.