How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Scottsdale: rush hour, animals)

[Westside Willie]

Originally Posted by rebecca castro

I am a woman who was in the Good Shepherd School for Wayward Girls I was there till 1970 I really have a need to talk to somebody about this School please help me alot of need questions to be answererd

Rebecca -I work at the Diocese of Phoenix.
Contact our archivist here: mbeteran@diocesephoenix.org

Westside Willie

[AZDesertBrat]

Originally Posted by Arizona Mike

I went to school with the daughter of one of the owners. A combination of rising real estate prices and the desire of the families for their children to have better lives meant gradually fewer and fewer flower farms.

They were glorious, though. In the days before the I-10 passing through Phoenix, we had to drive along Baseline to get to Buckeye and then down to Gila Bend when we made our annual summer hadj to San Diego. My folks left early in the morning to avoid the heat, and I always associate the intoxicating smell of all those blossoms entering the car as the sun rose and we drove past...

I can understand that. Aren't we all that way about our kids? We went the opposite way to Tucson all the time. lol Yep, oranges and flowers...smell soooo good!

[roosevelt]

Nice photo taken about 1950 at the Park Lane Motel at 16th Avenue and Van Buren. I had a new Schwinn Black Phantom at the time. I think this little girl's bike was called a Hornet.

[roosevelt]

Does anyone know if this photo was taken at Guys & Dolls. I was just a kid when I was there with my dad one afternoon. Photo could be 1966.

[Arizona Mike]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

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Does anyone know if this photo was taken at Guys & Dolls. I was just a kid when I was there with my dad one afternoon. Photo could be 1966.

Guys and Dolls, the old strip club on 32nd Street and Washington? Your dad took you there as a minor?

[roosevelt]

Originally Posted by Arizona Mike

Guys and Dolls, the old strip club on 32nd Street and Washington? Your dad took you there as a minor?

Yes, I was about 12 and the place was empty. My dad was conducting war surplus business with the owner who had a big storage yard behind the club filled with stuff bought at surplus auctions down in Fort Huachuca; anyway I'm sitting there by myself in the dark and behold..........Salley Rand came out and did a fan dance. I was petrified. I guess her contract was to do her show even if no one was there.

[Arizona Mike]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Yes, I was about 12 and the place was empty. My dad was conducting war surplus business with the owner who had a big storage yard behind the club filled with stuff bought at surplus auctions down in Fort Huachuca; anyway I'm sitting there by myself in the dark and behold..........Salley Rand came out and did a fan dance. I was petrified. I guess her contract was to do her show even if no one was there.

Deja Vu all over again, as Yogi Berra said. I just googled the subject and found you and I had the same on-line conversation 4 years ago, w-a-ay back on page 58 of this thread...Not only are we recycling Phoenix history on this thread, we're recycling our own comments!

[1937Gal]

Originally Posted by brookgarden

I think you're right - was it Reynolds Park?
Thanks!

There was a housing area with long "huts" on the northwest area of 35th and Van Buren which was referred to as "Alzona Park". In the 50s I had friends who lived in those.

[jukebox47]

Originally Posted by 1937Gal

There was a housing area with long "huts" on the northwest area of 35th and Van Buren which was referred to as "Alzona Park". In the 50s I had friends who lived in those.

I was a little kid but there was a time that we lived in Alzona Park. I really don't remember much except the walls must have been very thin and the people next door had extreme arguments and a some domestic violence.

I think Dr. Stump's office was down the street on Van Buren near the bowling alley. Dr. Stump's brother became Congressman Stump. One of the brothers owned a farm on 91st Avenue just a ways North of the "normally dry" Salt River channel.

[huebird]

I loved Betty Crocker Tree House restaurant. They had the best sandwiches, especially the reuben! I also remember that my husband had an affair with one of the waitresses, and we got a divorce. hahaha I fondly remember Betty Crocker, though, and the waitress did me a big favor!