How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Mesa: drive-in, children)

[azdr0710]

roosevelt: I assume this ad was for Maryvale???.....would be cool to go drive around the 'hood over there now, find a house that looks like that model in the ad, take a pic, and post it here as a "then and now" thing..... I may do that one of these years!

[AzSon]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Wanna buy a house? You know, the price seems high to me. Wonder what they are selling for now?

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Roosevelt, at first I thought you were being ironic when you said the house price was too high, but then I got to thinking and later saw your reply about the $ 10,000 houses.My parents house (not a J.F.Long),3bdr 1 ba w/detached 1 car garage and about 900 sq.ft. sold for $7500 in 1945. 20 year fixed rate mortgage @ $50 per month,so they ended up paying $12,000. The "Futurerama" had a monthly payment of $123,couldnt see any details about length of mortgage.A 20 year fixed rate on that would end up costing $29,520.So yeah actually the price on that house in 1954 does seem a little high for the valley of the sun,yet about $3000 less than the national average in '54. I can remember when my sister got married in '65 and they were looking for houses with mo. payments around $100. It would be interesting to see these houses now and know what thier current prices are.
Just for the kicks and giggles of it I used the Federal Reserve Bank's CPI calculator to adjust for inflation. According to that index it would take $122,468 in 2010 dollars to equal the $14,995 1954 sales price of the "Futurerama'.

[Donalumni]

Originally Posted by AzSon

Roosevelt, at first I thought you were being ironic when you said the house price was too high, but then I got to thinking and later saw your reply about the $ 10,000 houses.My parents house (not a J.F.Long),3bdr 1 ba w/detached 1 car garage and about 900 sq.ft. sold for $7500 in 1945. 20 year fixed rate mortgage @ $50 per month,so they ended up paying $12,000. The "Futurerama" had a monthly payment of $123,couldnt see any details about length of mortgage.A 20 year fixed rate on that would end up costing $29,520.So yeah actually the price on that house in 1954 does seem a little high for the valley of the sun,yet about $3000 less than the national average in '54. I can remember when my sister got married in '65 and they were looking for houses with mo. payments around $100. It would be interesting to see these houses now and know what thier current prices are.
Just for the kicks and giggles of it I used the Federal Reserve Bank's CPI calculator to adjust for inflation. According to that index it would take $122,468 in 2010 dollars to equal the $14,995 1954 sales price of the "Futurerama'.

Great info AzSon! I remember going with my parents to a X-mas party at a home up on Camelback mountain that was way up high just below where the castle is that they give tours through. I remember my parents discussing, on the way home in the car, how could a person afford to pay for a $70,000 home! My parents paid $10,500 for our home in 1963 in south Scottsdale at 68th st. & Oak and sold it in 1988 for $95,000.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by AzSon

Roosevelt, at first I thought you were being ironic when you said the house price was too high, but then I got to thinking and later saw your reply about the $ 10,000 houses.My parents house (not a J.F.Long),3bdr 1 ba w/detached 1 car garage and about 900 sq.ft. sold for $7500 in 1945. 20 year fixed rate mortgage @ $50 per month,so they ended up paying $12,000. The "Futurerama" had a monthly payment of $123,couldnt see any details about length of mortgage.A 20 year fixed rate on that would end up costing $29,520.So yeah actually the price on that house in 1954 does seem a little high for the valley of the sun,yet about $3000 less than the national average in '54. I can remember when my sister got married in '65 and they were looking for houses with mo. payments around $100. It would be interesting to see these houses now and know what thier current prices are.
Just for the kicks and giggles of it I used the Federal Reserve Bank's CPI calculator to adjust for inflation. According to that index it would take $122,468 in 2010 dollars to equal the $14,995 1954 sales price of the "Futurerama'.

The price of almost $15,000 was high compared to what that same house is selling for now. Maryvale is the pits, the house condition, the neighborhood; I wonder what the price is now after the foreclosure disaster. I'm guessing around $30,000 or less, really a poor appreciation value after all these years compared to other parts of Maricopa County.

http://www.modernphoenix.net/maryvaleterrace.htm

[roosevelt]

Here is some low cost housing. Quonset huts were very popular after WWII in Phoenix. Many businesses also used them. With the housing market the way it is, I would imagine you could buy one like you buy a car.

[Westside Willie]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Wanna buy a house? You know, the price seems high to me. Wonder what they are selling for now?

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I like the one with the bathing beauty in Maryvale.
47th Ave & Indian School. Yes, lets all move there and enjoy our swimming pool. That area certainly hasn't deteriorated.

Thank you, Mexican gang-bangers for ruining much of our city.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by Westside Willie

I like the one with the bathing beauty in Maryvale.
47th Ave & Indian School. Yes, lets all move there and enjoy our swimming pool. That area certainly hasn't deteriorated.

Ha, that swimming pool ad either has the attack of the 50 foot woman or the pool is awfully small!

[FadedGlory]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Here is some low cost housing. Quonset huts were very popular after WWII in Phoenix. Many businesses also used them. With the housing market the way it is, I would imagine you could buy one like you buy a car.

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I spent 7th Grade in a Quonset hut. Had a total of three class rooms if I remember correctly. This was in the Creighton District. Man talk about being COLD in the winter and HOT in the summer!!!! I could hear the parents today if their kids were "schooled" in a Quonset hut.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by FadedGlory

I spent 7th Grade in a Quonset hut. Had a total of three class rooms if I remember correctly. This was in the Creighton District. Man talk about being COLD in the winter and HOT in the summer!!!! I could hear the parents today if their kids were "schooled" in a Quonset hut.

My grammar school used army barracks for hygiene and piano lessons. Even at USC in Los Angeles they were using several barracks next to the track field. Here is a photo of a Quonset Hut subdivision. Talk about knowing your neighbors! I guess the upper class model came with a sheet of metal over the front door and a little wooden fence.

[Leavin the swamp]

Salt River was a big arroyo that we would collect river rocks from to decorate our yard.

Gilbert was nothing but 4 way stop signs.

Loop 101 or 202 were not there.

Remember Mill Ave as a bunch of quirky shops with funky stores like Roads to Moscow.