How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (television, waitresses)

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Credit for these two wonderful photos is to Vintage Phoenix on Facebook; there are two great forums with the same name.

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I certainly remember those 15 cent Burger Chef burgers...ate one everyday in high school. Another dime got you a Coke too!

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by magicroses

I was there in the 70's too and am still in contact with 2 people from there. I was in with aunt Sue, then aunt Linda in San Juan and then later-Princess !!!!I never tell anyone about it---they think it was a school for psycho girls---but it didn't totally seem that way----Where were you? I miss Mr. P. We learned a lot from him! I graduated from there in 1978.

Boy, that's a blast from the past...Princess yes...I used to have outside Saturday chores and had cigarettes stashed lol. I was there in '68-69. Miss Marguerite didn't quite know what to do with me...when I left there was not an option to return lol.

[trillcatz]

Originally Posted by jukebox47

Great Pictures!! There was one on South Cental, below Southern Ave. I thought the burger price was really reasonable even for those times.

That's the one that I went to while at South. A meal for a quarter. A $7 a week allowance went a long way back then.

[locolobo13]

The Burger Chef I remember most was right across the street from Carl Hayden HS. The building is still there. It's a tire/wheel shop called LLantera Malverde.

By the time I got to HS (1970) the price was more like 25 cents for the burger, 35 cents for the cheeseburger.

[observer53]

Originally Posted by locolobo13

The Burger Chef I remember most was right across the street from Carl Hayden HS. The building is still there. It's a tire/wheel shop called LLantera Malverde.

By the time I got to HS (1970) the price was more like 25 cents for the burger, 35 cents for the cheeseburger.

I think there's still a former Burger Chef building on Bethany Home, west of 19th Ave east of Black Canyon.

I fondly remember eating at the one on University at ASU many times. Cheap meal when the dorm cafeteria was closed.

[brian740]

Originally Posted by observer53

I think there's still a former Burger Chef building on Bethany Home, west of 19th Ave east of Black Canyon.

I fondly remember eating at the one on University at ASU many times. Cheap meal when the dorm cafeteria was closed.

I don't recall one on Bethany in that area Observer ( though of course there could've been ), but there was one on Glendale Ave. just west of Washington High School, south of Glendale Ave between 19th Ave and Black Canyon. And I'm pretty sure the building is still there. Also, about a block west of the Burger Chef, on the north side of Glendale, was a Mugs Up Root Beer. I remember you could buy a mega-phone of root beer. It was basically a waxy-paper cone, and when you finished drinking it. You cut out the round bottom, and you had a mega-phone.

[baby sinister]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Credit for these two wonderful photos is to Vintage Phoenix on Facebook; there are two great forums with the same name.

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I see a Safeway, Gulf service station, Standard service station, and a "Ma Bell" phone booth.

[observer53]

Originally Posted by brian740

I don't recall one on Bethany in that area Observer ( though of course there could've been ), but there was one on Glendale Ave. just west of Washington High School, south of Glendale Ave between 19th Ave and Black Canyon. And I'm pretty sure the building is still there. Also, about a block west of the Burger Chef, on the north side of Glendale, was a Mugs Up Root Beer. I remember you could buy a mega-phone of root beer. It was basically a waxy-paper cone, and when you finished drinking it. You cut out the round bottom, and you had a mega-phone.

You are right, it's Glendale, not Bethany. My bad.

[Arizona Mike]

Originally Posted by brian740

I don't recall one on Bethany in that area Observer ( though of course there could've been ), but there was one on Glendale Ave. just west of Washington High School, south of Glendale Ave between 19th Ave and Black Canyon. And I'm pretty sure the building is still there. Also, about a block west of the Burger Chef, on the north side of Glendale, was a Mugs Up Root Beer. I remember you could buy a mega-phone of root beer. It was basically a waxy-paper cone, and when you finished drinking it. You cut out the round bottom, and you had a mega-phone.

There was also a Mugs Up Root Beer just east of 32nd Street on McDowell Road in the early 1960s (not sure when it closed down) - it was the old style drive-in where the waitress came out and hooked a tray onto the side of your car window. I remember the root beer they sold there as being incredibly good. I remember accidentally spilling a root beer float down my dad's back in his new car there...

[azdr0710]

Originally Posted by Arizona Mike

I remember the root beer they sold there as being incredibly good.

sorry to veer off-topic for a minute, but this made me think of the history of Root Beer and how people say it used to taste....from wiki article on Hires Root Beer:

"One of the major ingredients of root beer was sassafras oil, a plant root extract used in beverages for its flavor and presumed medicinal properties. The medicinal properties of root beer are emphasized in the advertising slogan, "Join Health and Cheer/Drink Hires Rootbeer." Ironically, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned sassafras oil in 1960 because it contains the carcinogen and liver-damaging chemical safrol. However, a process was later discovered by which the harmful chemical could be removed from sassafras oil while preserving the flavor.[8]"