How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (profit, proximity)

[roosevelt]

I don't remember this place, maybe someone else does.

[BEJ]

I don't remember it either. There was a pool hall around 13th & Van Buren where some of us played. How about Dick's Drive-In (15th & McDowell), Whittier (49-56), Coronado Park, PUHS, Fox Theatre Saturday Serials, Rialto Theatre, cruising Central Ave, Boy's Club (15th PL & Moreland).

[roosevelt]

My aunt lived at Palm Lane and 14th Street so I'm very familiar with Whittier and the Coronado pool. There was a Foster's Freeze at 12th Street and McDowell I would to to a lot, and the Chili Pepper across the street. Dick's Drive In was a 50's style place, later changed names but still the same. The pool hall was Mack Langston's Pool Hall and they had Keno, card games, dominos and checkers. Pretty tame stuff.

[azdr0710]

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[BEJ]

Use to swim at Coronado Park during the summer. I remember a Jack-In-The-Box at the corner of 13th and McDowell. I don't recall the name of the pool hall, but there was a old (prob 70s), gray haired, short, guy named "Mike" who owned and ran the place. He charged by time and I remember having "arguements" with him because he would always round up the time to the nearest five minute interval. Usually, the extra cost was a nickel or a dime. He once told me he made his living on nickels. At the time I played there it was pool and poker.
I had a blind date once while in high school. It was a "double" date and we ended up at Dicks. The girl and I didn't get along and she ordered several dollars worth of food. When I complained about how much it was going to cost (I didn't have much money) she said "Well, I know I won't see you again so, I might as well take you for everything I can".
It's amazing what you remember so many years ago !!!

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by BEJ

Use to swim at Coronado Park during the summer. I remember a Jack-In-The-Box at the corner of 13th and McDowell. I don't recall the name of the pool hall, but there was a old (prob 70s), gray haired, short, guy named "Mike" who owned and ran the place. He charged by time and I remember having "arguements" with him because he would always round up the time to the nearest five minute interval. Usually, the extra cost was a nickel or a dime. He once told me he made his living on nickels. At the time I played there it was pool and poker.
I had a blind date once while in high school. It was a "double" date and we ended up at Dicks. The girl and I didn't get along and she ordered several dollars worth of food. When I complained about how much it was going to cost (I didn't have much money) she said "Well, I know I won't see you again so, I might as well take you for everything I can".
It's amazing what you remember so many years ago !!!

Here's to bad dates..............I had date I made a month in advance to a teen that became a pinup model. When I showed up on the big night, she had the flu.

[SluggoF16]

Originally Posted by azdr0710

this thread will hit 1 million views in a few days.....thanks to all the contributors

Awesome. And one of the few CD threads that doesn't degenerate into off-topic political or religious rants, trolling, or juvenile name-calling. Instead, reminiscences from a time gone by in a locale that was a really great place to grow up. (Just wish I had more pictures of the Phoenix area in the 50s [when my parents moved there], 60s and 70s.)

[BEJ]

I wonder if the phrase "If I only knew then what I know now" would apply to "bad" dates in the teen years ?
I was a "bagger" at the A.J. Bayless store on the southwest corner of 16th St and McDowell. Made a big time $.75 an hour working part-time after school. Next to Bayless, there was a beauty/barber shop, a dry cleaners, and Olsen's Pharmacy. Now, there is a parking lot and nothing else (if I remember correctly).
Also, worked at "Bob's Big Boy" at the corner of Central Ave and Thomas Rd. I'm sure it's long gone, too. At first, I did the drinks on the drive-in side then, a BIG promotion (it was a $.10 an hour raise) to the inside making salads or something along that line. I stayed because you could have anything you wanted for a meal (if you were working 8 hours) and they had great shrimp and cocktail sauce. I remember always getting a HUGE bowl of shrimp and that great sauce. But, I missed all the Hot Rods cruising through the drive-in section looking for a parking place, which was almost impossible to find on the weekends, and drinking all the "mistake shakes" I made during the night.
I have kept the promise I made to myself so many years ago ----- "I'll NEVER work fast food again".
My hat is off in deference to all fast food workers.

[Arizona Mike]

I'll fess up: Phoenix places I associate with bad dates: El Camino Theater & Sombrero Theater

[chaparrito]

I'd have to start a new thread to list all the places in the valley where I remember having bad dates.