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

[izthplgn]

I remember going thee in the late 50's.Mom had afriend that worked there and my brothers and I saw the sound studio but we were more interested in swimming in the pool located in the southwest corner of the property. It was close to the canal and there were small toads that used to find the way there. Wish I had pictures.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by izthplgn

I remember going thee in the late 50's.Mom had afriend that worked there and my brothers and I saw the sound studio but we were more interested in swimming in the pool located in the southwest corner of the property. It was close to the canal and there were small toads that used to find the way there. Wish I had pictures.

Here is the only picture I have of Cudia City, the entrance. There is the canal.

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by izthplgn

I remember going thee in the late 50's.Mom had afriend that worked there and my brothers and I saw the sound studio but we were more interested in swimming in the pool located in the southwest corner of the property. It was close to the canal and there were small toads that used to find the way there. Wish I had pictures.

The first 2 pics were sent to me by a old friend who is a native Arizonan like me. I'm not sure where the bridge with the plaque is located?
The second 2 yellowed pics were obtained from the picture files of True West magazine.

[AZDesertBrat]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

I don't have a Bayless interior photo but I have a 1953 Phoenix Safeway photo, don't know which one it was. Nothing digital here. I knew someone who worked as a cashier for Bayless. They said the odd looking Bayless house way up on Central and Northern had an extension built on the south end and they trained cashiers in the room.
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The first Safeway I remember was on So. Central between Broadway and Roeser Rd. in 1951. It was two doors from our house and my sister and I liked playing in the doorway, making the doors open and close, jumping into and out of the post beam! I also wrecked a pair of roller skates by skating on the brand new blacktop parking lot.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by desertratz

The first 2 pics were sent to me by a old friend who is a native Arizonan like me. I'm not sure where the bridge with the plaque is located?
The second 2 yellowed pics were obtained from the picture files of True West magazine.

Great photos, they are the only ones I know of showing the wooden buildings. I have one where they are shooting a movie but can't find it.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by AZDesertBrat

The first Safeway I remember was on So. Central between Broadway and Roeser Rd. in 1951. It was two doors from our house and my sister and I liked playing in the doorway, making the doors open and close, jumping into and out of the post beam! I also wrecked a pair of roller skates by skating on the brand new blacktop parking lot.

I knew of 2 Safeway stores during the early 40's. One was on Central near Willetta and the other on 7th Avenue north of Roosevelt. They had the same architectural style, old Spanish Mission. In fact, I think the building on 7th Avenue is still there remodeled for an office. The only thing I remember about the store is the aisle with the syrup cans shaped like a log cabin.

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by AZDesertBrat

The first Safeway I remember was on So. Central between Broadway and Roeser Rd. in 1951. It was two doors from our house and my sister and I liked playing in the doorway, making the doors open and close, jumping into and out of the post beam! I also wrecked a pair of roller skates by skating on the brand new blacktop parking lot.

I remember the Safeway store in Mesa on south Country Club Drive between Main street and the railroad underpass. When I was 5 in 1956 my mom went shopping there and drove over a parking bumper and put a hole in the oil pan of our 55 Pontiac. Boy was my dad pissed! After Safeway moved on, that building was used for office furniture storage then KDKB radio moved there through their heydays in the 1970's and beyond. It's now a cold storage facility.

A few hundred yards south of that store was the old Packing Sheds Bar which was always good for a knifing on a Saturday night my dad would say. It was so named because of the packing sheds on Broadway just south of the tracks where they packed cataloupes, honeydews and watermelons for shipment around the country. The old Crystal icehouse that provided ice for the railroad cars sat square in the middle of all the packing sheds.

[Desertspiritsteve]

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Cudia City from Arizona Central 2007

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[AZDesertBrat]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

I knew of 2 Safeway stores during the early 40's. One was on Central near Willetta and the other on 7th Avenue north of Roosevelt. They had the same architectural style, old Spanish Mission. In fact, I think the building on 7th Avenue is still there remodeled for an office. The only thing I remember about the store is the aisle with the syrup cans shaped like a log cabin.

I was born in the early 40s so I wouldn't know about those first two. The one by our house was just your typical big 'box', no real architectural 'style'. The last time I was by there it had been turned into a Social Services office. Where our old house was had become a big thrift store and is now a cabinet building company. There was another Safeway store, on the corner of 24th St. and Van Buren, behind the Carrow's restaurant, that was turned into a medical type place. I was working as an apprentice electrician in 1978 and helped put all the new electrical in it. Still lots of Safeway stores around.

I remember the Log Cabin syrup in the cabin shaped cans. I had a few of them I used as 'piggy banks'. My dad would cut a hole in the top of the can for me.

[AZDesertBrat]

Originally Posted by desertratz

I remember the Safeway store in Mesa on south Country Club Drive between Main street and the railroad underpass. When I was 5 in 1956 my mom went shopping there and drove over a parking bumper and put a hole in the oil pan of our 55 Pontiac. Boy was my dad pissed! After Safeway moved on, that building was used for office furniture storage then KDKB radio moved there through their heydays in the 1970's and beyond. It's now a cold storage facility.

A few hundred yards south of that store was the old Packing Sheds Bar which was always good for a knifing on a Saturday night my dad would say. It was so named because of the packing sheds on Broadway just south of the tracks where they packed cataloupes, honeydews and watermelons for shipment around the country. The old Crystal icehouse that provided ice for the railroad cars sat square in the middle of all the packing sheds.

Amazing how real estate gets used over and over for different things.

I lived in Mesa in the 60s and I remember some of things you've mentioned. I don't remember a Safeway back then but I did most of my grocery shopping at Cost Plus 10. I remember the icehouse and I lived on Broadway. I remember the rail road tracks being a pain in the neck sometimes!