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

[jack swilling]

Originally Posted by jukebox47

Does anyone remember Sandy's Restaurant? It was really a place like a Jack-In The Box or McDonalds. I think there was one at about 51st or 59th Ave & Indian School. It was next to a carwash on the South side of Indian School.

Yes. Delicious. Phoenix did not have many, however, as I remember, a few in Tucson were considered the gold standard for that sort of thing. An institution in the Old Pueblo. It was a hang out must.

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by jukebox47

Does anyone remember Sandy's Restaurant? It was really a place like a Jack-In The Box or McDonalds. I think there was one at about 51st or 59th Ave & Indian School. It was next to a carwash on the South side of Indian School.

Sandy's Hamburgers Drive-In Sandys 1960s 1950s McDonalds Hardees Burger King Lendy's Burger Chef Biff Burger Big Boy Henry's

[jukebox47]

Originally Posted by desertratz

Sandy's Hamburgers Drive-In Sandys 1960s 1950s McDonalds Hardees Burger King Lendy's Burger Chef Biff Burger Big Boy Henry's

That is quite a web site! Thanks! Now I remember why I liked Sandy's, it must have been the pretty Scottish girl! The food was good as I remember it and so were the chocolate shakes!

[locolobo13]

Here's an interesting gallery showing floods in past years.

Panoramio - Photos by Flood Control District

I didn't move here until 66 so can't remember the previous floods.

[AZBradley]

Cool link!!!!!

Thanks

[desertratz]

Originally Posted by locolobo13

Here's an interesting gallery showing floods in past years.

Panoramio - Photos by Flood Control District

I didn't move here until 66 so can't remember the previous floods.

Very cool indeed! I remember the 72 floods, especially the part where I was trying to get from the west valley to the east on a motorcycle down Camelback Rd. I was truly a drowned rat on that day! The Black Canyon freeway from roughly Van Buren to who knows how far north was just a canal full of submerged cars when the drainage pumps where overwhelmed and failed. I remember some guy put his boat in there and was putting up and down before he was chased out by the police. It poured rain steadily for several days probably because of some stalled tropical depression or something?

[Arizona Rosie]

Originally Posted by desertratz

He also skipped bail and headed straight for Mexico and hasn't been seen since. Kinda ironic ain't it??

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[Dave Bob]

Originally Posted by desertratz

Very cool indeed! I remember the 72 floods, especially the part where I was trying to get from the west valley to the east on a motorcycle down Camelback Rd. I was truly a drowned rat on that day! The Black Canyon freeway from roughly Van Buren to who knows how far north was just a canal full of submerged cars when the drainage pumps where overwhelmed and failed. I remember some guy put his boat in there and was putting up and down before he was chased out by the police. It poured rain steadily for several days probably because of some stalled tropical depression or something?

Backed-up traffic crossing the Mill Ave bridge made me late for the evening final exam in a history class at ASU. (At least I wasn't on a motorcycle!)
I think there was a pretty long period during that school year when I would get up extra early every day to get to campus since I always had to cross the Salt.

One of the pix on that very cool flood website shows Christown's parking lot full of water. That must have been the time I remember sandbags around my grandparents' house, on 15th ave just north of Christown.

[JoeC]

About The Salt River flooding:

Maybe early or mid 80s - does anyone remember when they had to close the newest bridge over the Salt (with a higher CFS - cubic feet/second - rating) because it was deemed unsafe, while the WPA-era Mill Avenue bridge (with a far lower CFS rating) was allowed to remain open? IIRC the river was flowing at 200,000 CFS, which was way over what the Mill Ave bridge was designed for - and it remained safe.

I thought it was a little ironic.

Am I remembering this correctly?

[SluggoF16]

Originally Posted by JoeC

About The Salt River flooding:

Maybe early or mid 80s - does anyone remember when they had to close the newest bridge over the Salt (with a higher CFS - cubic feet/second - rating) because it was deemed unsafe, while the WPA-era Mill Avenue bridge (with a far lower CFS rating) was allowed to remain open? IIRC the river was flowing at 200,000 CFS, which was way over what the Mill Ave bridge was designed for - and it remained safe.

I thought it was a little ironic.

Am I remembering this correctly?

Mid-to-late February 1980. One of the I-10 bridges closed, Mill stayed open. Central was open briefly, and was then closed, but most of the other river crossings were either culverts, fords (LWCs), or "bridges". Used to park at the zoo and bike across Mill to ASU. One of my buds lived in Hayden Hall on Apache where it bends to Mill... we'd sit on the ledge and watch the traffic crawl by, usually backed up to the Howard Johnson's. I was fortunate in that the traffic flow was opposite my direction of travel so I was never really caught in it.

It was interesting to stand on the bank where the Rural Road crossing used to be (near Packard Stadium). See earlier post for additionals.