How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Scottsdale: health, best place)

[azdr0710]

....does anybody remember SFS being open-air with Goldwater's at one end and Diamond's at the other!!????

I do. I remember before it was built.

[roosevelt]

Here is an email from a Phoenix Union High School alumni, does anyone know the street?

“I was born in Phoenix on a street name "French Alley" just south of PUHS and a little west of 7th Street. Now I have not been able to find this street because its name was changed or it was closed off.
But my birth certificate so indicated this name for the street. Remember the name of this street because it will play a big big part of my life after PUHS.”

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by azdr0710

....does anybody remember SFS being open-air with Goldwater's at one end and Diamond's at the other!!????

I do. I remember before it was built.

Yes, I remember, vaguely. Seems there were some restaurants in the open area. There was a Joe Hunt restaurant. Why does the song "Lola" come to mind. Maybe I heard it passing by a music store there.

[observer53]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Yes, I remember, vaguely. Seems there were some restaurants in the open area. There was a Joe Hunt restaurant. Why does the song "Lola" come to mind. Maybe I heard it passing by a music store there.

Joe Hunt's was right out in front, on the Scottsdale Road side, next to Goldwaters. There was Guggy's, further down the open area, and I think another place on the north side that I don't remember well. We spent a lot of time shopping in Bostrom's (which was a very early Williams-Sonoma/home decor place that was also in the open area, on the south side.

Roosevelt-- Have any more "mystery pictures" to start the New Year? (did we ever figure out where that one with the beauty queens by the unusual looking pool was taken????)

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by observer53

Joe Hunt's was right out in front, on the Scottsdale Road side, next to Goldwaters. There was Guggy's, further down the open area, and I think another place on the north side that I don't remember well. We spent a lot of time shopping in Bostrom's (which was a very early Williams-Sonoma/home decor place that was also in the open area, on the south side.

Roosevelt-- Have any more "mystery pictures" to start the New Year? (did we ever figure out where that one with the beauty queens by the unusual looking pool was taken????)

No one knows about that photo of the pool with the fountain in the center. This is the only photo I do not know where it was taken. The photographer does not remember.

[Desertspiritsteve]

Was SFS the other location of Circles Records?

[baby sinister]

Originally Posted by Desertspiritsteve

Was SFS the other location of Circles Records?

Yep...there was a Circles there in the early 80's.

[SluggoF16]

....does anybody remember SFS being open-air with Goldwater's at one end and Diamond's at the other!!???? - azdr0710


My mom worked at Leonard's Gifts and Luggage on the west end of Fashion Square in the 70s. When Sakowitz opened in the early 70s it was a big deal, and she and a whole lot of retail workers in the old Fashion Square took jobs at Sakowitz. She still has some old Sakowitz bags (as in the kind your purchases are contained in).
We were amazed at the "technology" employed at Sakowitz, the high-tech (at the time) registers... they needed a two or three day class on how to operate them. The marble floors were a first for the area... Diamonds and Goldwaters had carpet which was great if you were a ten-year old kid tormenting your sister with static electricity during the dry months (most of the time).

[hubblejim]

Does anyone remember a club called Sonny's? I went there in the 60's, but can't remember where it was! Also, what was the name of the club on 7th Street and Indian School, where the Vibratos played?

I lived in Phoenix from 1955 to 1970, moved away and came back 40 years later. Wow--what happened?

Jim

[SluggoF16]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Payless Discount Nursery. Down the street was Betty Crocker's Tree House with all those mechanical birds making noise while kids ate their animal shaped Jello, one leg at a time, then the head.............

Betty Crocker's Tree House was open in the early 70s on the east side of Scottsdale Road just south of Osborn, about where the Drinkwater turnoff is now. There was a similar place farther south called The Drumstick, on Scottsdale near McKellips. They were a chicken joint, served Texas toast with pretty much everything, and had a model train suspended over the dining area which circled around continually. It was open from around 1971 to the mid-70s.