How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Scottsdale: high school, college)

[Barbarosa]

Looks like it, thanks.

[slowesthand]

Originally Posted by Barbarosa

Looks like it, thanks.
Attachment 159796Attachment 159797

Attachment 159798Attachment 159799

Attachment 159800Attachment 159801

Hey, looks like Marty Milner and George Maharis from "Route 66" in the vette following the 56 Chevy!

[Barbarosa]

Originally Posted by slowesthand

Hey, looks like Marty Milner and George Maharis from "Route 66" in the vette following the 56 Chevy!

Sure is. http://www.ovguide.com/video/route-6...0612313d1ffe14

[jukebox47]

Deceased - Price, Dr. Halford Reid On October 28th, 2015.

If you grew up in South Phoenix you may have visited Dr. Price. His office was on South Central. I visited there a number of times after a crash on my old Cushman Scooter to get a whole bunch of "road rash" healed up. Nice guy, WWII Medic.

You may also have visited Dr. Cucuzi (I know my spelling of his name is incorrect, sorry). Also South Central.

Or perhaps Dr. Maine (again spelling is in doubt). South Central as well.

[baby sinister]

Originally Posted by jukebox47

You may also have visited Dr. Cucuzi (I know my spelling of his name is incorrect, sorry). Also South Central.

I went to Dr Cucuzi (sp?) back in the 70's. He had no receptionist. He would come out and ask who's next...and it would be up to the people in the waiting area to keep track of who went in next. Usually he would give you a shot of penicillin and some penicillin pills and send you on your way. I heard in later years that someone shot him in the face during a robbery. It didn't kill him tho'...he was a tough old bird.

[jukebox47]

Originally Posted by baby sinister

I went to Dr Cucuzi (sp?) back in the 70's. He had no receptionist. He would come out and ask who's next...and it would be up to the people in the waiting area to keep track of who went in next. Usually he would give you a shot of penicillin and some penicillin pills and send you on your way. I heard in later years that someone shot him in the face during a robbery. It didn't kill him tho'...he was a tough old bird.

He was a tough old guy. He could be kind of crabby! Seems like office calls were $5, last I remember. He was a WWI Doctor, as I remember. He knew his stuff. My wife had painfully dislocated ((or something) her arm. He popped it right back into place and that was that. Last time I saw him he was on the roof fixing his evaporative cooler. No refrigeration there.

A friend last saw him in Payson; dancing like crazy. He told her he had retired there. He was shot (supposedly) for refusing to give an armed robber some drugs. I think it was Dr. Maine who came to his aid since he was just up the street. I think he kept a lot of medications but not pain killers etc.; sometimes no need to go to pharmacy, he had em.

[Lily fa pootz]

Originally Posted by John B Sloop

Anyone recall the Duppa Villa community of homes was on the east side of Phoenix around Roosevelt and maybe 16th St, now torn down probably in the early 60's? I went to school at Garfield Elementary, then to Emerson on 7th St above McDowell Rd. Garfield had many kids from the 'projects' called Duppa Villa. They were very small apartments in a long row as I recall….![/font]

I remember **** Villa well, or as well as one can when living there as a very small child. My WWII veteran father moved my mother and I there from Boston in 1948. We lived there until 1952. Most of the families living there were struggling financially. The housing was very spare and the rooms small, but the apartments were well-maintained and and teeming with post-war servicemen and their young families. We children ran around all day in our underwear. There were big water barrels on stilts outside the units, and large expanses of open yard. My mother had a hand-wringer washer and there were lots of clothes lines outside to hang things. We went barefoot from sunrise until we were called in to dinner, which was hazardous, as there were more than a few large anthills filled with big red fire ants all around.

[Arizona Mike]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

Jutenhoops, Christine and Gary. Lotions, potions, animal squirt guns, bubbles, unicorns, colorful prisms. I believe this is the 3rd Avenue and McDowell location.

Attachment 157453

Ave atque vale, Jutenhoops.


27 August 1998



23 December 1994


26 October 1983


8 February 2002

[Arizona Mike]

I miss Caf' Casino as well. We used to walk over there after watching a movie at the Cine Capri. When I got my first job after college and was transferred to L.A., the Caf' Casino in Westwood Village became the place we would walk over to from the office and hang out for morning coffee and crossaints and hide from supervisors. Plus ca change.

[Arizona Mike]

Growing up in the 1970s, I always looked forward to this feature in the AZ Republic sports section on Thursdays - Staff cartoonist Kearny Eagerton would illustrate the college and high school football wins and losses very graphically, using their mascots as stand-ins. I see my alma mater East High lost that week to Phoenix Union.