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

[slowesthand]

Originally Posted by baby sinister

Any one remember the Federated (Fred Rated) stores that we had in Phoenix? They were appliance stores, if I remember correctly. There was one at Tower Plaza. Was watching the movie "Psycho" this morning and it reminded me of the commercial parody that Federated did of the movie.

I do remember a store at Tower Plaza, located on the west end, I think it was called Fed Mart. I could be wrong with that name. I bought some photography items there when they were having their going out of business sale. My guess it was early 80's.

[Arcadia Camelback]

Originally Posted by slowesthand

I do remember a store at Tower Plaza, located on the west end, I think it was called Fed Mart. I could be wrong with that name. I bought some photography items there when they were having their going out of business sale. My guess it was early 80's.

Hmm, the only FedMart I remember near that area was the one at 48th Street and McDowell. [Interesting factoid: FedMart was founded by Sol Price, of Price Club fame.] I still have a Schrade Uncle Henry LB7 Bear Paw pocket knife I bought at that FedMart in the '70s.

Originally Posted by massphotoman

I remember going to legend city and laying on the bean bags watching the laser shows. I also remember going in and then sneaking in the back way into Compton Terrace to watch AC/DC. I saw the For Those About To Rock show. It was great. I was so young. I was with a friend and neither one of our mothers would have let us go to a concert. What she did not know did not hurt her.

Heh, some buddies and I snuck into the Def Leppard concert at the old Compton Terrace in like 1983.

[Dave Bob]

Originally Posted by trillcatz

Does anyone remember Trulich's (sp?) Steak and Seafood? It was located along the access road on the west side of the Black Canyon...maybe between Indian School and Camelback? Back in the early '70's you could get a lovely steak dinner for less than $5.

The name is familiar. I think the spelling was Treulich's. Never ate there, but must have see their sign numerous times to burn it in my memory, so you may be right about it being visible from I-17.


Back in the 60's there was a restaurant called the Arizona Club. It was up on top of one of the taller downtown buildings, but I don't remember which one. Had dinner there with my parents & their friends a couple times.

[observer53]

Originally Posted by Dave Bob

The name is familiar. I think the spelling was Treulich's. Never ate there, but must have see their sign numerous times to burn it in my memory, so you may be right about it being visible from I-17.


Back in the 60's there was a restaurant called the Arizona Club. It was up on top of one of the taller downtown buildings, but I don't remember which one. Had dinner there with my parents & their friends a couple times.

The Arizona Club was around long past the 60's -- finally closed in 2009 or 2010-- for the last several years, at least, it was in Chase Tower.

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by baby sinister

Any one remember the Federated (Fred Rated) stores that we had in Phoenix? They were appliance stores, if I remember correctly. There was one at Tower Plaza. Was watching the movie "Psycho" this morning and it reminded me of the commercial parody that Federated did of the movie.

Remember the Barry's TV and Appliance stores all over the valley? I think all Best Buys and Circuit Cities helped to put him out of business.

He always had these cheesy commercials he ran on TV and when I think of them I also think of the Dire Straits song - Money for Nothing.

[roosevelt]

Scarce postcard of the Brookshire's on McDowell and 16th Street.

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Scarce postcard of the Brookshire's on McDowell and 16th Street.
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I think I remember a Brookshire's up in Sunnyslope in the '70's maybe...and maybe one down on about 4-5th St and VanBuren...heck, maybe it was 16th or 20th St...I can't remember but I think I remember one on VanBuren...or was it McDowell? Oh well.

[jack swilling]

Treulich's was a great convenience for the near west side, and the food was great and so reasonable.
Does anyone remember the first Miracle Mile that opened in the 40s on McDowell, just west of 16th Street, I believe, on the south side of the street? Before that, it was Hermann's, something like Corned Beef/Pastrami Heaven.
The new owner and his wife had sold their car in New York and gone to Tucson to purchase a property, but they found none of interest, so they decided to try Phoenix. They had no car, so they took the bus from Tucson to Phoenix, and did business with Hermann, a quite colorful man who liked to swish a huge butcher knife in your face when he was holding forth on one thing or another, like he was a portly, workingman's Errol Flynn. Hermann stayed on following the transition, and made many friends and a few enemies.
Down the street was the office of the legendary Dr. Paul Ryerson, University of Chicago, who worked first as a mining physician in the Globe-Superior area, then started a practice in Phoenix. The miners thought so much of him that when they got sick they brought themselves and their family all the way to Phoenix in the 40s and early 50s to be treated by him.
For a number of years, he was known as one of the top diagnosticians west of the Mississippi (or the Rockies?)
I can still smell the medical disinfectant that perfumed his office. When doctors like that left the scene, the whole patient was no longer treated, I think.

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by jack swilling

Does anyone remember the first Miracle Mile that opened in the 40s on McDowell, just west of 16th Street, I believe, on the south side of the street? Before that, it was Hermann's, something like Corned Beef/Pastrami Heaven.
The new owner and his wife had sold their car in New York and gone to Tucson to purchase a property, but they found none of interest, so they decided to try Phoenix. They had no car, so they took the bus from Tucson to Phoenix, and did business with Hermann, a quite colorful man who liked to swish a huge butcher knife in your face when he was holding forth on one thing or another, like he was a portly, workingman's Errol Flynn. Hermann stayed on following the transition, and made many friends and a few enemies.
Down the street was the office of the legendary Dr. Paul Ryerson, University of Chicago, who worked first as a mining physician in the Globe-Superior area, then started a practice in Phoenix. The miners thought so much of him that when they got sick they brought themselves and their family all the way to Phoenix in the 40s and early 50s to be treated by him.
For a number of years, he was known as one of the top diagnosticians west of the Mississippi (or the Rockies?)
I can still smell the medical disinfectant that perfumed his office. When doctors like that left the scene, the whole patient was no longer treated, I think.

I ate at Herman's in the early 50's. He was a big guy working by himself. Here is an ad from 1957 showing the name change. The area east of 16th Street was promoted as the Miracle Mile copying the famous one on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. I believe they even had an arch over the street with the 'Miracle Mile'.

[kirk nervig]

The arch is still there. That few blocks is having a bit of a come back. Fresh paint on most of the buildings.

Brookshires is now called The Hacienda, or something like that.

I live near there, 21st@Harvard. My house was built in '48, this wasn't part of Phoenix yet, so I was told by a lady at the building permit department.

Has anyone heard of T.W. Darnell? The old phone directories show that he was an artist, and the first person to live in my house.