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Wow - thanks for all the memories! Just visited Phoenix for the holidays and fondly conjured up some of my own in the Restaurant category...The Islands on 7th St., Northbank Restaurants, King's Table Buffet, Monk's Garden Restaurant & "Disco", Glass Door in Scottsdale, Caf'Casino, Victoria Station, The Tillerman...
I remember the flumes! We were bad teenagers, we'd go out late at night the night before going out there and look for Big Wheels trikes that kids had left out in their yards, steal them and take them with us to ride down the water slide type of thing they had out there. Right downstream from there was an aquaduct across a dry wash that was made from a steel half pipe. You had to be brave to float across that because it was so full of bullet holes you could barely touch the bottom without getting cut.
Such great stories, memories! Channel 61's station was right by my house at 35th Ave & Orangewood. I learned how to ice skate at Metrocenter. We had desert keg parties in high school at Happy Valley Road, Beardsley Rd., Skunk Creek. You could climb Squaw Peak at night and see the stars and city lights, Cloud 9 too (I think it was part of Biltmore Golf course not sure.) There were dollar movies at Valley West Mall, my first job was at the Karmelcorn there, people would come buy popcorn from me and sneak it into the movie.
We spent Summer's outdoors then, the heat wasn't so bad and TV was boring. The neighborhood kids would just migrate from house to house, pool to pool if you had one.
I have been trying to recall the name of a Mexican food restaurant about a half mile North or maybe South of McDowell on the East side of Central Ave in an old house during the early 1960's. I believe there was a stabbing death in the kitchen shortly before it closed. Can anyone help? It was not Woody's, which was on West McDowell.
Wonderful blog. Remember when I17 was the only freeway in Phoenix? In order to get to Paradise Valley you went done Northern Ave and it turned into Shea Blvd. Remember when all the kids from Deer Valley and New River were bused in to Apollo High School. Ll the elementary schools were Labeled "Unit 1 or Unit 2' so on and so forth? Remember when you were told to go out to play and you could go to the local Grade School and play on the play ground? Oh I could go on and on. Thanks again for the wonderful blog.
Anyone remember the drive-in movie theater that was located at 12902 N Cave Creek Rd. When my parents ran it, it was called the Valley Drive-In. Spent a lot of time there watching movies. My second job at a restaurant at 67th ave & Bell Rd, I had to drive to work on a 2 lane road, I could make it to work from Cave Creek & Greenway rd to work in 20 min not driving fast.
I remember Isaac Newtons's Notorious Falling Apple Saloon on Rural near the ASU campus in Tempe. I'm Luke Allison and I bought it with Ray Fluharty in 1976from Paul Yamaluk. My favorite entertainer was Hans Olsen and who can forget Nefertiti the belly-dancer with the boa constrictor on Tuesday nights. Sky Blue Water was the band we booked the most. They were in the middle of a Skynard tune one night when a woman called to say there was a bomb in the bar. I grabbed what I thought might be a clear pill bottle of nitro behind the band and walked out front wondering if it would blow me to pieces. Turned out it was the guitar player's glass slide piece. I raced back inside and placed it back on the top of his amp just as he reached for it. My competition was the Blue Goat Pub, Professor Pudgies, Varsity Inn, Fridays and Saturdays, the dreaded disco from the Sun Devil Lounge and finally Dooleys on Apache which buried me financially before the Tempe zoning board decided we were no longer welcome and pulled our license. Any of you who came to Newtons will remember the spotlight I shined on the dance floor and the gorilla arm wrestling frat boys. The Suns stole the idea for the gorilla from ME! I believe we may have invented "Drink and Drown" nights too...$10 at the door and all the well booze and keg beer you could drink. Our bouncers usually had to mace a customer or two during those drunkfests. If you lived in Tempe during the mid-70's you likely spent a night or two at Isaac Newtons. Thanks.
Rollerskating at Rollercade at Northern and 35th Avenue; buying my magic supplies at Bert Easley's on McDowell, concerts at the band shell at Encanto, pizza after a game at Alhambra HS at Peter Piper on 43rd and Glendale, watching soft porn from across the street at Indian School Drive In. During the summer, you could walk through my neighborhood (35th and Bethany) and pick fruit off all of the trees; back then, I didn't know what a pomegranate was for, or how to peel it.I remember when they built the Adams Hotel with the rotating restaurant at the top. You could walk home from work late at 2am, at the age of 16, and there was no curfew and the cops wouldn't hassle you. I remember when the girls worked down on Van Buren instead of at 27th and Glendale. I remember West Plaza, it had an LLSmith's hardware store and a Paddock Pools. Mr. Steak at 43rd and Bethany, and steak sandwiches at Jack in the box. Cruising Metrocenter on weekends and going to that Taj Majal game arcade on the outer loop. The ice skating rink at 27th and Indian School. Bingo on Friday nights at St. Vincent de Paul on 27th Ave, just north of Bethany where the room was absolutely full of cigarette smoke. The State Fair every year at the Coliseum. Walking to school my first day of first grade, and every day thereafter, BY MYSELF, and not being catered to by helicopter parents watching my every second. The bus was a dime and you could take it all the way to Sky Harbor at 5am, and no one thought anything of it. I thought Avondale was third world country, and Lake Pleasant was half way to Canada, but then I was 6.
Wow, so many posts & so many memories! I moved to Phoenix in late 1975 when I was 13, coming from Germany by way of Daytona Beach, FL. Our apartment complex was near 16th St & Camelback and I attended Madison Park, then Central High. I knew it was going to be a weird school year when everyone stood up and said, "Good morning Mr. Chambers!" when the teacher walked in. It was a great ice breaker. That following summer, the summer of the bicentennial was amazing and hot. I went to Big Surf with some friends, told them it was better than the ocean, 'no sharks'. I remember watching Wallace and Ladmo with my brother & sister along with that silly car commercial- Go see Cal. When we lived in Germany, I listened to the Armed Forces Network because there was no American television. KRIZ was my favorite station and I knew all the DJ's by their voice although they threw their names out 10-15 times an hour. I was listening to them until their final night. Tubing down the Salt River without sunscreen, oh yea, will never forget that. Papago Park, climbing Squaw Peak, Encanto Park, my first real job at Waffle House on Bell Rd and Black Canyon Frwy. Phoenix was a great place to live 1975 to 1980, and I hope it still is. I live in FL, but have very fond memories and will probably move to CO or NV in another 2 yrs. I visit the southwest often as I miss the desert and mountains.
Boy, what fun to read all the comments posted. I moved to Phoenix in the late 70's. Remember so many of the places, restaurants, parks, malls. Loved running around the whole city. Even to Tempe. Many happy memories there. I worked at Long Hair Inc. through manpower inc. But my husband worked there full time. There was 3 owners, 3 full time employees, including the chemist. Loved the conceived by nature hair products. Used to go along on deliveries to the hair salons. What memories this brings back!!!
Do you recall all of the country western dance halls in the 50's 60's Marty Robbins played at Fred Cares 35 th ave. and McDowell. Sarge's cow town and riverside ball room on Central, Harry's Capri east Van Buren, Buck Owens in Tempe on old US 60 and many moore
I really loved reading everyone's posts. Brings back a lot of memories. I moved to Phoenix in 1958. If my memory is correct, the population was only about 158,000 then. The Westward Ho Hotel was the tallest building in the city. A bunch of us played flag football at Encanto Park, then going to Mary Coyle's for ice cream on Thomas Road. I moved to California for 20 years and was always surprised at how much the Valley had changed. I'm back now and miss the old Phoenix, but time marches on.
Remember Sambo's? I was the graveyard cook! Remember when Thomas mall had big fish tanks, we used to go for feeding time for the piranha, what about the white Quartz mountains, or the Pancho's at Scottsdale mall? Or there were actual stockyards south of Legand City, and the Cudahey meat packing co., or when we used to go fishing at the Verde River, or go "skimming" with round wooden discs on flooded lawns!?...Aries.
Sheesh, no one mentioned swimming at the Flumes out in way west valley, Dangerous and exciting. Or watching classics at Sombrero Playhouse on 7th or waiting in the huge line to see Star Wars at the Cine Capri, the original. Or when Park Central was the only mall in town. But then I remember shopping at department stores downtown before Park Central opened
