How do you remember Phoenix? Stories from long time residents... (Glendale: middle-class, pitbulls)

[thynizz]

Hey roosevelt... was wondering if you snapped this lovely photo or got it elsewhere? Im trying to locate some midtown photos from the 60's-70's. Just curious... thx!

-Nicholas

[roosevelt]

[hotashell]

got any pics of maryvale?

[level-one]

Hi, I am a native of Phoenix... In October of 1971 I went to my first live concert. It was a day concert at Phoenix Muni, and at 14 years old, it was a day long expedition taking buses from Sunnyslope out to the stadium. The concert featured the Beach Boys, Taj Mahal and several other bands...
Just wondering if anyone else here was at that concert and has more detailed memories...

[toextra]

Originally Posted by roosevelt

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This photo reminds me of my brief tenure at Motor Supply Co., on the west side of Central visible between the two pedestrians. I haven't been down there lately, but I think that building and everything south of it is gone on that side of the street now. I still remember the colorful characters to be encountered between the store and the main (at that time) post office. I worked there in the early seventies.

[ELOrocks17]

I remember this place!!

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by ELOrocks17

I remember this place!!

Looking at the car under the billboard in the middle, it's a 1971 Chevrolet Impala, so that picture was probably taken sometime in the early 1970s.

Central And Osborn - The one curved building on the right, used to have Western Savings' logo at the top and I think that was where their headquarters were - Several buildings that have been around in that area for a long time have been renovated in recent years, but this building needs to be either torn down or renovated. It has looked the same for as long as I can remember. I drove by there less than a week ago and in my opinion, it's an eye-sore. I'm not sure who the architect was that came up with that design on the south side of the building, but it's in serious need for a change. I'm sure the design looked modern back in the day when it was built, but now it looks like something out of a Flintstones cartoon! LOL.. This is a more recent picture of Central & Osborn and it doesn't look like it has changed since it was built.

[jukebox47]

The "Computer Card" Building. Back in the days of the IBM punch card it was supposedly designed to appear as a card (people say). The cards were a form of memory. They were somewhat the size of a postcard and (if I remember correctly) had 12 rows and 80 columns. A keypunch machine was used by data entry operators to input (punch rectangular holes) representing the data. For important jobs a verification machine was used by a second data entry operator to make sure all the holes got punched in the correct place. Machines read these cards for all the usual types of jobs computers and other less sophisticated unit record machines did in the day. You could even write a simple computer program, punch it into the cards and run it on a computer.

[Arizona Mike]

That building, then recently constructed, was used as a futuristic ghetto apartment complex for a made for TV sci-fi movie in 1966 that was filmed around the valley, "The People Trap," which aired on ABC. Set in an overpopulated future, it also used the Celebrity Theater (then known as the Star Theater) on 32nd Street as the starting point for a marathon race, with the winner to receive a small patch of private land for himself.

Hard to find a copy nowadays, as it was never released on DVD, but it was based on a short story by scifi author Robert Sheckley (which probably influenced both The Hunger Games and The Running Man), had a script by Earl Hamner (creator of The Waltons TV series), and had a big name cast - Pearl Bailey, Lew Ayers, Jackie Robinson, Mort Sahl, Phil Harris, Vera Miles, Cesar Romero, Michael Rennie, and Mercedes McCambridge.

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by Arizona Mike

That building, then recently constructed, was used as a futuristic ghetto apartment complex for a made for TV sci-fi movie in 1966 that was filmed around the valley, "The People Trap," which aired on ABC. Set in an overpopulated future, it also used the Celebrity Theater (then known as the Star Theater) on 32nd Street as the starting point for a marathon race, with the winner to receive a small patch of private land for himself.

Hard to find a copy nowadays, as it was never released on DVD, but it was based on a short story by scifi author Robert Sheckley (which probably influenced both The Hunger Games and The Running Man), had a script by Earl Hamner (creator of The Waltons TV series), and had a big name cast - Pearl Bailey, Lew Ayers, Jackie Robinson, Mort Sahl, Phil Harris, Vera Miles, Cesar Romero, Michael Rennie, and Mercedes McCambridge.

Oh wow, I didn't know that, then again I've never seen that movie on TV either.