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

[Arizona Mike]

Can't remember if these were posted, but



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More info here: MALL HALL OF FAME: September 2007

[hotashell]

i've seen those. thanks anyways.

[SluggoF16]

My sister forwarded me this. I think the color's off or else the holder of the ticket is a Smurf.

[Leaving Arizona]

Originally Posted by SluggoF16

35 years ago yesterday the Salt River peaked at over 200,000 cu ft/sec. As an ASU student who lived on the north side of the Salt, and used the Rural or McClintock low water crossings/culverts to get to school, I had to be resourceful in getting across the Mill Avenue bridge. Parked at the zoo and biked across, wasn't hard at all, mostly due to the fact that it was generally against the flow. Pic from A Mountain.

Wow, I'd almost forgotten that NB traffic had the surface street, and when there was any kind of release or waterflow due to rainfall, the Mill Ave bridge became a very narrow two-way.

That picture... wow, amazing how much the north bank has changed.

I was about 8 years old when those floods happened. I remember my dad having to get up at three am to make it to work in Litchfield Park (we lived about a mile south of ASU), and that traffic heading anywhere north of the river trying to jam itself over the Mill Ave bridge made getting to school for my older sibs at Tempe High pretty difficult.

[James J. Gonzalez]

Love this photo
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[roosevelt]

my old neighborhood. Central and roosevlt. This building was torn down for the curve to first avenue one way street, most famous tenant was andy chuka.

[1937Gal]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Attachment 145697my old neighborhood. Central and roosevlt. This building was torn down for the curve to first avenue one way street, most famous tenant was andy chuka.

Oh how lovely to see this old photo of Central and Roosevelt. I went to school with Andy Chuka, Jr. That photog studio had a huge presence in our earlier days. My parents lived at 402 W. Roosevelt where I became more than a glint in someone's eyes. Now it's a business that was in my business circle before I retired. Life goes in circles.

[Applegate8]

In the '60s, I remember Andy Chuka's business being on the east side of 1st Street a couple of blocks south of McDowell (someone please tell me if my memory is faulty). But what I most remember about Andy Chuka is seeing him at a Shriner's Convention I worked at in the early '60s when I was in high school. I was doing some kind of work right next to Andy and some of his pals and what I most vividly remember is how funny he was and what a foul mouth he had (even by today's standards!).

[azdr0710]

relative newcomer (!) to Phoenix (1975) here and I've never heard of Andy Chuka.....can anybody tell me what he did to become well-known?.....only thing I found googling around is that maybe he did art work??.....also saw an obit for an Andy Chuka the 3rd who died in 2012 at age 46....

thanks

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by Applegate8

In the '60s, I remember Andy Chuka's business being on the east side of 1st Street a couple of blocks south of McDowell (someone please tell me if my memory is faulty). But what I most remember about Andy Chuka is seeing him at a Shriner's Convention I worked at in the early '60s when I was in high school. I was doing some kind of work right next to Andy and some of his pals and what I most vividly remember is how funny he was and what a foul mouth he had (even by today's standards!).

andy was a good friend of my father. He really did love the shriners. Andy looked like albert einstein and was always laughing. His business was picture framing and printing. He moved to 1st street after the central building was torn down. his son contnued the printing business. Andy also had a store downtown in late 30s.