Best things/memories about AZ?? (Phoenix: live, place, climate)

[maverick974]

I fondly remember when I was about 10 years old, my father managed a dry cleaners in Tustin California. The guy that owned it lived in Wickenburg. He had a "ranch" on the river and there was a runway. He had several personal airplanes and he would fly out to California, pick up my brother and I and flew us back to Wickenburg. We would wake up, saddle up his horses and take a long morning ride into the box canyons up there. When we got back to the house, his wife would have a huge breakfast waiting for us. I can still smell the bacon and eggs. I can still see "my horse, Boots. I can see the house, the stalls and the fields like I was there this morning.
After breakfast, he would have us clean the stalls, clear the fields, paint the house, etc, etc. Looking back on it, he brought us there once a year to clean up his ranch but we were too young and having too much fun to notice.
Every afternoon we would go to a little restaurant called Shoppes Restaurant and had the most wonderful shakes I've ever had.
That was around 1970. I remember that he had businesses in Phoenix and I remember driving into Phoenix from Wickenburg and I remember thinking that Phoenix was so small.
Anyway, that's all gone now. He was killed a few years later when he was flying his small plane low and slow looking for some lost hikers. They had just installed some new high power lines over the riverbed but hadn't put those big colored plastic balls on the lines so they would be visible. He hit the lines and died instantly.
The house and ranch is long gone, Shoppe's Restaurant is gone, even the town isn't the same but the memories will always be with me.
Fun times.

[HTY483]

-Having a pool growing up. We weren't even rich either, just average middle class. Most of my friends had pools as well. No fancy waterfalls or anything, just your basic pool with a diving board. It was great.


-Suns/Bulls Championship series.

[jamies]

Supai, and the afternoon I spent all alone at Havasu Falls. Sitting in the moonlight next to Mooney Falls watching the light on the canyon walls for hours.

Lunch in one of the front window tables at the Tovar Lodge overlooking the Grand Canyon.

Kayenta when it snows. Canyon de Chelly when it snows. Globe and Miami in the rain.

The old road to Globe. The regular road to Jerome.

Bisbee.

Dinner at Christmas time in Flagstaff with the snow falling and all the pretty lights.

Having my tent blown into Oak Creek in another thunderstorm, with me in it. Ended up in Flag in a hotel to dry out from that adventure.

Hiking Beaver Creek and boondock camping for free when everyone else is paying $300 a night for a $30 room in Sedona.

The Morinci Mine, what a sight!

Driving from there to Show Low - what a mistake! We spent a week driving that road one afternoon...

Before there was a bridge between Bullhead and Laughlin. When there were only three casinos and Bullhead City was mostly trailers. And a two lane road to Needles.

Before there was an Interstate and Rte 66 was it, and there was actually a reason to stop in Oatman, Needles, Seligman, Winslow and Holbrook.

[509]

I miss the old Bullhead City.

I miss the Arizona without homes scattered throughout the desert as far as the eye can see!!!

I love the night sky in Arizona.

[wit-nit]

Memories....


Wallace & Ladmo Show with Gerald...

Legend City, Phoenix, AZ

[petlover8]

Originally Posted by 509

I miss the old Bullhead City.

Just as I miss the old Lake Havasu City. Now, much like Prescott, it's over flowing with Californian's.

[teddyearp]

Hmmm. Nothing. But these:





















I could go on and on and on and on and on. Going to Slide Rock before anyone really knew about it . . . .

[elkotronics]

I'll have ta visit Slide Rock one of these days - that looks cool!

[teddyearp]

Originally Posted by elkotronics

I'll have ta visit Slide Rock one of these days - that looks cool!

For the record, I did not post a picture of Slide Rock. that last one was taken from the Mogollon rim.

[elkotronics]

That's all right. Still looks cool. How is Randle treatin' ya these days, partner?