How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Mesa: manufactured, transportation)

[deraffe]

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.

i think your dedication plate is on the bridge over the canal on 40th street just over the canal. i grew up just south of there and i seem to remember a brass plate on the bridge, but i never stopped to see what it said.

[baby sinister]

Speaking of grocery stores...went by the Food City on 16th st and Mohave the other day and noticed that it has closed. That store was open forever.

[roosevelt]

Here is an interesting picture. Back in 1958 someone in the state legislature wanted to change Arizona State to Tempe University. These students are protesting that they want Arizona State University to be the name. Seems UofA started all this because ASU was stealing their name.

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by baby sinister

Speaking of grocery stores...went by the Food City on 16th st and Mohave the other day and noticed that it has closed. That store was open forever.

That particular Food City and 2 other stores closed on 21 July 2009 due to Bashas' bankruptcy. Bashas' purchased Food City in 1993 and expanded it across the valley.

At least we still have Carolina's Mexican Food at 12th and Mohave. YUM!!!!

[baby sinister]

Anyone remember when the City of Phoenix Garbage truck training was at Mohave and 24th st?(back in the days when there were two guys that stood on the rear of the truck) I had a summer job working out of the City of Phoenix sanitation facility at 25th st and Hess in the summer of 1975 and we cut down grass and weeds at that site. It was pretty cool at first because the planes were flying in right over our heads...but working out in 110 degree heat everyday, it got old real fast. Every time I watch Cool Hand Luke, I think about that summer. We were a teenage road gang..lol. Seems to me, there was a church somewhere close to 20th st and Mohave that had a colorful stained glass window in it...there was also a taxidermy place in that area also, if I remember right.

[roosevelt]

Arizona County Club in 1962.

[roosevelt]

Big Surf in 1971, perhaps opening day, I can't remember.


I do remember the Salt Cellar nearby opening about this time, I was at the city council meeting trying to get a zoning variance when the guys wanting to open the underground restaurant came up for discussion. I thought they were nuts. They got approval but not for what they wanted, the city made them build an entrance structure above ground because of silly rules and regulations otherwise the place would have looked like a city park on top.

[observer53]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Big Surf in 1971, perhaps opening day, I can't remember.
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I do remember the Salt Cellar nearby opening about this time, I was at the city council meeting trying to get a zoning variance when the guys wanting to open the underground restaurant came up for discussion. I thought they were nuts. They got approval but not for what they wanted, the city made them build an entrance structure above ground because of silly rules and regulations otherwise the place would have looked like a city park on top.

And the Salt Cellar is still in business after all these years, when hundreds of other restaurants across the Valley have come and gone. I remember going there for frozen daiquiris after working shows at Gammage when I was in college.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by observer53

And the Salt Cellar is still in business after all these years, when hundreds of other restaurants across the Valley have come and gone. I remember going there for frozen daiquiris after working shows at Gammage when I was in college.

My building was just up the street and I only went there a few times; I heard stories about people that started to go down but panicked and wanted out!

My favorite place to eat at the time was Betty Crocker's Tree House on Scottsdale Road. Great bakery and the dining room looked like the Tiki room at Disneyland.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by desertratz

That particular Food City and 2 other stores closed on 21 July 2009 due to Bashas' bankruptcy. Bashas' purchased Food City in 1993 and expanded it across the valley.

At least we still have Carolina's Mexican Food at 12th and Mohave. YUM!!!!

I eat at Carolina's place on 91st and Peoria all the time.

I think Food City was forced out of business by El Rancho cornering the Hispanic market.