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Old 12-31-2013, 08:42 PM
 
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The beauty shop was called the Biltmore Beauty College. You may be talking about Hobo Joe's that was on 20th Street.
Biltmore Beauty College! Sounds like the exact place! Got my Dorothy Hamill haircut there the Winter of 1976 when all little girls wanted to be like Dorothy Hamill after the 1976 Winter Olympics. I remember the restaurant actually being in the shopping center with the Safeway, Skaggs, Baskin Robbins, etc. Someplace in the middle of the row of stores. Might have been a Chinese or Asian restaurant, some or part of the time. My oldest brother when he visited at Christmas brought some old pictures of us from our Phoenix days to reminisce over. Us at various ages on banana seat bikes. Someone's birthday at KiddieLand at Encanto, riding the rocket ship ride, probably 1974 or 1975 by the clothes and our ages in the pics. Halloween pic of me the year I dressed up as Oscar The Grouch. Me outside my elementary school classroom, in a striped shirt and blue shorts Then a few later on pictures after we'd moved to CT, my 2 brothers in their mid teens, and me about 12, all of us looking rather gangly and awkward the way kids of 12-16 sometimes do! We got a good giggle out of the teenager pictures for sure!
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Old 01-01-2014, 09:18 AM
 
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You can always count on Roosevelt to come through! I must have passed that place a million times. Do you remember the coffee shop down closer to 24th? On the south side of the street, next to a hotel by the canal?
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Old 01-01-2014, 09:59 PM
 
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You can always count on Roosevelt to come through! I must have passed that place a million times. Do you remember the coffee shop down closer to 24th? On the south side of the street, next to a hotel by the canal?
I think it was originally Sambo's, then later (maybe still is) Jerry's.
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Old 01-02-2014, 07:31 AM
 
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I think it was originally Sambo's, then later (maybe still is) Jerry's.
Still Jerry's.
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Old 01-02-2014, 07:45 AM
 
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I think it was originally Sambo's, then later (maybe still is) Jerry's.
Wow. still Jerry's...amazing. Thats probably about the only thing that is still the same from that time era.

There used to be a bar on the NE corner of 24th st. and McDowell back then, later it was tore down and a Circle K. put there. I think it was called the "Blue......something" I might be off on that name. Does anyone remember that one?
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Old 01-02-2014, 09:06 AM
 
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Wow. still Jerry's...amazing. Thats probably about the only thing that is still the same from that time era.

There used to be a bar on the NE corner of 24th st. and McDowell back then, later it was tore down and a Circle K. put there. I think it was called the "Blue......something" I might be off on that name. Does anyone remember that one?
Blue Door Cocktail Lounge.

Anyone remember the Top Hat bar on Central near Roosevelt? They had a neon sign on the front of a top hat and cane.
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Old 01-02-2014, 09:39 AM
 
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Blue Door Cocktail Lounge.

Anyone remember the Top Hat bar on Central near Roosevelt? They had a neon sign on the front of a top hat and cane.
The Blue Door! I should have guessed it I remember blue neon over the door way!
Thx Roosevelt
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Old 01-03-2014, 02:08 PM
 
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Default Mystery Sphere

Roosevelt

Can you tell us what this sphere was?
This shot is appx. over 9th Ave & Adams c. 1930's

Thanx
Willy
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Old 01-03-2014, 04:23 PM
 
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Roosevelt

Can you tell us what this sphere was?
This shot is appx. over 9th Ave & Adams c. 1930's

Thanx
Willy
Reminds me of a natural gas storage tank. Kinda like the one pictured.
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Old 01-03-2014, 05:26 PM
 
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Roosevelt

Can you tell us what this sphere was?
This shot is appx. over 9th Ave & Adams c. 1930's

Thanx
Willy
Compressed natural gas storage tanks were round because a sphere was the strongest shape.
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