You Grew Up In The 80s In Phoenix If You...

Sep 13, 2009

You Grew Up In The 80s In Phoenix If You...The other day I came across a list of Phoenix history that's making its way around the Internet on sites like FaceBook and a bunch of blogs. If you grew up in Phoenix in the 1980s (like I did), you will remember a lot of these!

You Grew Up In The 80s In Phoenix If You...
1) Would have done anything for a Ladmo bag.
2) Tried to fry an egg on the sidewalk.
3) Can still remember the words to The Hepatitis Song.
4) Spent way too many summer days in a mall.
5) Remember listening to KZZP.
6) Went ice skating at Metrocenter.
7) Get irritated when people say "Yeah, but it's a dry heat."
8) Have red burnt cheeks in every childhood picture.
9) Had a pool in your backyard.
10) Vacationed in San Diego or Rocky Point.
11) Know what it feel like to come out of an icy cold movie theater into 110 degree heat - I miss that feeling!
12) Saw your mom drive with potholders.
13) Know what "tubing" means.
14) Have been "ice blocking."
15) Have a T-shirt that says "I survived the hottest day in Phoenix history" referring to that summer day in 1990 when it got up to 122 degree in the shade.
16) Consider yourself a "Zonie."
17) Ever put Christmas lights on a cactus.
19) Burnt the bottom of your feet running out to get the mail because you were too lazy to put on shoes.
20) Know some Spanish even though you never studied it.
22) Enjoyed making song requests at Organ Stop Pizza.
23) Got in trouble for leaving crayons in the back seat of the car.
24) Are not intimidated by a Super Big Gulp.
25) Your heroes were Kevin Johnson (KJ), Mark West, and Tom Chambers.
26) Had to pay full replacement price for the rented VCR tape you left in your car.
27) Shopped at Goldwaters, Broadway Southwest, Federated, Globe or Diamonds.
28) Remember Dave Pratt the Morning Mayor on 98 KUPD.
29) Can count the number of times it snowed in Phoenix on one hand.
30) Stood in line to watch movies at the original Cine Capri.
31) Snow cones and brain freezes made summer worthwhile.
32) Cried when Wallace and Ladmo went off the air.
33) Went to Pistol Pete's Pizza, ShowBiz pizza, and can recall Tex Critters at MetroCenter.
35) Remember Gemco.
36) Ate at Furr's Cafeteria.
38) Saw your first concert at the Arizona State Fair.
39) Remember the Madhouse Macdowell (Purple Palace).
40) Remember Suns Fever.
41) Recall Thunder Dan.
42) Mourned the loss of Cotton Fitzsimmons.
43) Believed in the 100 year flood.
44) Did the hokey pokey at Great Skate.
45) Cruised Central Avenue, Metrocenter, or Mill Avenue.
46) Worried about drive by shootings at school.
47) Remember only TWO freeways either the I-10 or I-17.
48) Remember who Rose Mofford or Evan Mecham is.
49) Know what Sonoyta Motors is.
50) Know what Price Club is (and when there was only 1).
51) Had Dimension Cable.
52) Know what the Phoenix Gazette is.
53) Went to Legend City or Compton Terrace.
54) Know what Yellow Front, Lucky's, Smittys, AJ Bayless, are.
55) Suffered with a swamp cooler.
56) Went boogie boarding on irrigation day.
57) Fished in the canal.
58) Went to the hot air balloon races at Thunderbird.
59) Thought 19th Ave and Cactus was in the boonies.
60) Speaking of the boonies - drank in the desert with the rest of your high school friends until the bright light of the helicopter came blaring down.
61) Were ever excited about your appearance on "Pets on Parade."
62) Suffered the consequences of leaving your sister's favorite vinyl record in the car.
63) Remember your parents voting (or not voting for) for the ValTrans monorail.
64) Thought Big Surf was rad!
65) Danced at Club Rio.
66) Remember Tex Earnhardt and his "That Ain't No Bull" commercials.
67) Attended a birthday party in a railroad car at the McDonald's on Bethany Home and 23rd Ave.
68) Remember the Dr. Demento show on KZZP every Sunday night.
69) Burned your hand trying to open your locker at school.
70) Locking your car doors as soon as you got south of Bethany Home.
71) Wished you lived in California.
72) Didn't believe that high schools actually had indoor halls and full size lockers like they do on TV.
73) Didn't go to the park until AFTER dark.
74) Thought sweatbands were not just a fashion statement.
75) Your hypercolor t-shirt was permanently a different color under your arms.
76) Knew not to shoot at a Saguaro because it could fall over on you and kill you.
77) Thought Flagstaff was REALLY cold.
78) Always saw at least 10 people you knew on Mission Beach (San Diego).
79) Knew who worked on Van Buren.
80) Remember when the Roadrunners were the only hockey game in town.
81) Remember when Buckeye was BFE.
82) Wore jellies in the summer even though you had really bad feet sweat.
83) Went to see Santa @ Westridge Mall (that was the best one with the whole set up).
84) Remember when Ahwatukee was a retirement community half way to Tucson.
85) Remember 50 cent movie Tuesdays at Valley West Mall.
86) Have a scar on the back of your thighs from the 3rd degree burns sustained from the metal clip your seat belt clicked in to. No protection given from the OP short shorts.
87) Remember the orange trees planted all the way down the middle of Black Canyon Freeway (Now called I-17).
88) Ever get your butt and legs burned by metal slides at the Whataburger across from Metrocenter? (What sadist would put metal slides on a kids playground in Phoenix????!!)
89) Remember when Sun City wasn't connected to the rest of the valley?
90) Ever have brunch at Mother Tuckers?
91) Remember when it only took 2 hours to drive to Flagstaff.
92) Going to slide rock in Sedona and hoping it wasn't closed due to high levels of bacteria in the water!
93) Remember when Terminal 2 was the only passenger terminal at Sky Harbor and you had to walk on the tarmac.
94) Got free tokens at the Valley West Mall arcade for good grades on your report card.
95) Celebrated a birthday at Ed Debevic's.
96) Thought Bobby McGee's was the coolest restaurant ever or went to Dr. Munchies.
97) Ever rode the "crack the whip" ride at Encanto Park.
98) Ever got attacked by a jumping cactus.
99) Know what to do when you hear a rattle in the desert.
100) Used to shop at LaBelles, eat lunch at Liberty Bell Pizza or get soda at the U-TOTEM on Cactus.
101) Remember the commercial about Valley Fever..."Dustyyyy, dustyyyy, dustyyyy"!
101) Remember when you could get 2 tacos and a small drink at Taco Bell for $2.
102) Had hot air balloons land in your backyard when you lived on 75th Ave and Bell by the orange groves known now as "Arrowhead Mall."
103) Witnessed the shock when the "art" on the 51 when installed. (Referring to the lovely toilet and large silver sphere.)
104) Had the bell rung for their birthday at Farrell's (Christown).
105) Remember going to the Phoenix Firebirds baseball games.
106) Remember Dewey Hopper-the weather guy who always wore school t-shirts.
107) Watched World Beyond on Sat. mornings.
108) Ate at Bob's Big Boy.
109) Enjoyed three scoop ice cream cones at Thrifty's.
110) Ever shopped at Pic n Save (aka "Pick Your Nose")
111) Remember "Come on over, to Peter Piper Pizza!"

I have to say that I remember a lot of these. Some of my own memories of Phoenix in the 1980s include:
-Watching the "Sunday on Central" parade down Central Avenue with my parents.
-When Castles-N-Coasters was still called Golf-N-Stuff.
-When Wet-N-Wild was still called Waterworld Safari.
-Walking around Rawhide Frontier Town when it was still in Scottsdale.
-Riding the train at McCormick Stillman railroad park.
-Going to Phoenix Firebirds games back when Arizona did not have a MLB team.

Please feel free to contribute your own memories of Phoenix in the 1980s by clicking the "Comments" link below this article!

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Anonymous said...

Dusty... Dusty... Dusty.....
The Devil house, Friday nights ( I think or maybe Saturday nights) for under 21, standing in line forever, then dancing the night away...
Watching the lightning storms during Monsoon season up in South Mountain.
Paddle boats at Encanto park.

When Gary Tyson and family were on a murder rampage and how relieved everyone was when he was found dead in the desert just a few yards from a water source. Karma sucks sometimes doesn't it Gary?!???

Anonymous said...

How about that great rock band based out of Phoenix... Loosely Tight!

Anonymous said...

How about the bands Jodie Foster's Army, Killer Pussy, and The Mighty Sphincter?

Ron McCale said...

I lived in Tempe from about 1976-1982 or so and have this photo of playing Goofy Golf someplace in that area with a big red dinosaur holding a white bone like a cane and a Fred flintstone cutout thing next to it. Any idea where that was anyone? My mom thinks it was 1980 and for some reason it's making me crazy not being able to figure it out! I live in Tucson now and wanted to check it out. Any help would be cool. I wasn't sure how to attach the photo to this page so it's not available.

Maynut said...

Remember Kupd, in the trailer, and as KUP'D'D...PLOISH RADIO..and road 3 WHEELERS at the river, not quads.!

Unknown said...

I remember The Camelback Lounge and The Uptown Express on 7th Ave and Camelback.
Steven.

Unknown said...

Desert parties at 7th St and Deer Valley - 51st Ave and Happy Valley. Buying album's and concert tickets at Rolling Stone Records. Parties at Lake Pleasant (Dirty Shirt). Parties at the flumes. Dove hunting in the Arrowhead area. South Mountain with comments to your date "put out or get out'.

Unknown said...

Oh, and the air siren that would sound each Sunday at 27th Ave and Northern.

Lee said...

Earthquake McGoon's at Valley West Mall.

Anonymous said...

Please contact me via facebook, this site was hard to find. Foodtruck junkees. Looking for a girl named Wendy, she got pregnant and moved to oregon. Back in the 80's ...hung out at srgt pepoers. This is Lloyd also go by Guy. Thx need her ladt name, thought it was Porter. But cant remember.

Anonymous said...

Goodyear Aerospace. Valley Bank. Charles Keating and the Savings and Loans. The Squeeze Box on Thomas Rd. The Toad on KDKB. Village Inn Pizza. There was an all night Coffee Shop/Diner around Camelback on Grand (I don't think it was Mel's Diner, but maybe). The hilly 2 lane Thunderbird road from Phx to Scottsdale (OK, maybe 70's to many of these).

Anonymous said...

- searching for quarters in Gold Mine arcade @ metrocenter
- AMC midnight movie express trailer
- yelling 'show your tits' to chicks cruising metrocenter
- kung fu theater on sat. mornings
- waiting for younger sister to get her stupid stickers at jutenhoops
- parachute pants and concert tees
- 'member when it was still ok to ride in the bed of a truck? (FUN)
- bringing sex wax to school
- pirated ON TV
- bill's records and audio (for your hifi gear)
- saying 'KUPD rocks Arizona' through a fan to make yourself sound synthesized
- class field trip to the Wax Museum
- smear the queer in an irrigated field
- Fun Dip candy & Astropops at the public pool
- Mattel electronic football handheld
- your comb in your backpocket helped you get high score playing Track & Field video game
- D&D possessed the kid down the street
- it would actually get foggy on winter mornings
- SuperFun arcade at PV Mall was off the hook
- Max's 919
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.. somedays, i miss you phx (finally made to cali)
-

Anonymous said...

5150 at canyon lake!

Jeff said...

I grew up in this area too. A little east of 32nd street though. I grew up living around several apartments and homes between 40th street to 48th street and between Roosevelt to roughly Palm Lane. So I remember Skate World on 45th street and Oak, Thomas Mall (McCrory's retail store and the dollar theater there on Thomas and 45th street). Tower Plaza (the ice rink there & the arcade inside), Tower Records on 40th street and Thomas. Evan's Supermarket on 44th & McDowell, Thrifty's Drug in the same location. Winchell's Donuts right next to Seven-Eleven on 48th street and McDowell, Bob's Big Boy (my mom worked as a waitress there) on 46th street and Thomas. Carrow's restaraunt (Now Garcia's on 46th st. & Thomas). Pic N Save on Thomas and 32nd street. The 202 freeway wasn't built yet and all those homes where the 202 & the 143 meet were all still in tact. The old Greyhound Dog Track was still operating. Park and Swap, just north of the Dog track was the original vender spot where they literally had to pitch a tent each and every workday (I worked there so I'd know). Alcapulco Bay Beach Club restaurant in Tower Plaza (my mom also waitressed there too). So many more I could probably think of in this area.

Jeff said...

I remember McCrory's at Thomas Mall!

Jeff said...

Had a school field trip to Williams Air Base about 5 or 6 years before it closed down.

Jeff said...

I had a red card too. Funny story, the card actually got me out of a crazy police stop once. I was driving to work on midnight shift to the shady area Inwork in around Mohave and 3rd street. But before I got there I was on the I-10/I-17 interchange (the one by the airport, not "the stack"), and I picked up a hitchhiker on the freeway for some strange reason. Well apparently there was a cop killer on the loose in that area and my vehicle fit the dude's description because about 20 squad cars and a helicopter tracked and stopped me right after I picked the hitchhiker up on the freeway. They came in full assault and got me on the ground with police lights everywhere. They started searching me and my belongings in my wallet and found that red card. I vividly remember one of the cops saying "ah he's good, he's a red card holder" lmao. They let me go after that. Probably not because of the red card lol, but I'm sure it didn't hurt.

Anonymous said...

The enclosed movie-motion ride machine at PV Mall in the food court... later replaced by a Nintendo shop/stand that had a row of machines you could play video games at for free, which would time out after 5 minutes

Anonymous said...

Very severe monsoons... A house that was being built in our subdivision got burned down by a lightning strike during one of them. The "monsoon" barely happens anymore these days.

Anonymous said...

Alice Cooper would invite big groups of teenagers to hang out at his estate in Scottsdale

Anonymous said...

Cruising Central and seeing Larry Nance with his hot rod acting like one of the guys
Left hand turns took forever because there was no arrow giving right of way.
Rockers on Indian School. Partied with Ron Keel there one night. I'll never forget.
Surgical Steel
Dave Pratt and the Sex Machine Band. Drop it on Kadafi. He could sell out 10,000 seat venues.
Desert Parties

I miss those days. Brings back so many memories.

Anonymous said...

Deervalley cycle park
Saguaro Raceway
Sneaking into the Caterpillar proving grounds and riding up to the top of Whitetanks mountain (straight up road!)
Cycle Accessories
Big Mac's at McDonald's on 35th and Indianschool rd. (pretty much the edge of town)
Running across the asphalt to the next cool green grass to cool off Our bare feet
Southwest Yamaha Grand ave.
Riding at the Agua fria river day and nite
Riding dirt bikes on I10 as it was being built west of Litchfield rd.
Gr8 times!!!!

Anonymous said...

This is probably a little earlier, but does anyone remember a band called "The Spiders"? You might know the lead singer now as Alice Cooper.

Unknown said...

I remember The Camelback Lounge strip joint on 7th Ave. and Camelback, right next to another one that I just can't remember the name of. The girls liked me there!

katmalloy said...

Yes!

Anonymous said...

There was putt-putt right around where Bobby Mcgees used to be.

John valenzuela said...

He'll yes partying was part of growing up,back then I remember this little town called wendon,arizona.,they use to go in the desert to party,all Budweiser or old style beer.man if anyone knows these people from wendon contact me.john from the South side Phoenix of course I remember the palmers like Gabriela and Robert,along with the others over there like my cousins use to live there they had a restaurant on the highway,remember the Sanchez family well anyways contact me.big j near southern and 7th avenue phoenix,arizona85041 or write me I did some time with Alfred Cortez brother of Ruben hunt.contact me ese Alfred I told your Carmel to tell you q-vo at Lorain funeral,anyways what's up everybody ya 6815south seventh avenue phoenix,arizona85041dont be a stranger man.alright oh Arthur Sanchez and the family are all here,remember able I remember we went to minder binders in Tempe anyone remember that place.well I do and gypsies from Tempe was a big pot head,he never showed his face again after the first and last visit.hey able I know your down there but what happened to everybody wow promos of mine,it's big j in the buzzy buzzy still dizzy out here,q-options I remember party and lita partying is all we did in wendon.i remember the hole in the desert does anyone remember that,I do that was cool Tony had the bombs he would drive into the desert.once he let me drive it into the desert at night,but I couldn't change the gears from the top.anyhow old Robert and able had it out,that was.a bad fight never forget that one.i remember this white chick I wonder what ever happens to her.she was bad and the parties ever lasting one time they thru me out and I was going to walk home,but I didn't know the way home.those were the days when wow would drive his car over the tracks like a bat out of hell,hey he was pretty wild.then Stacy Brown started going to a.s.u that's when we all came back to Phoenix South side I started working we would party still,but in Phoenix then epe died and able died it was over then I went to the joint everybody went there own way,anyhowthinking about the good old days.gone but remembered,I even remember partying with cowboy Sanchez the daddy of the family,we went to the sheriff's house to have some brewskies.those were the days.later eveybody

Anonymous said...

Yes. On grand ave near downtown Phx. I'm told that's were the show was actually filmed.

And cerretas candy in downtown Glendale has the actual candy conveyor belt used in "l love Lucy"

Anonymous said...

Mr. Gatti's pizza!

Jwcg3 said...

Remember BC's Cave in the parking lot of the Roadway Inn in East Mesa or going to Mr Luckys to dance and stay to eat breakfast there?

Jwcg3 said...

Remember BC's Cave in the parking lot of the Roadway Inn in East Mesa or going to Mr Luckys to dance and stay to eat breakfast there?

Anonymous said...

Tee Pee motel in Tempe
Village Inn Pizza
Hobo Joe's

Unknown said...

I grew uo at 34th st. And Indian School north side of indian school....great neighborhood and my daddy still lives there😍

Unknown said...

Yesss! And later....Out of Water!

Unknown said...

I must know you!? And its funny you forgot about Roads To Moscow❤.... I bought that from Steve in 1986-87 and he failed to tell me about the tax lien against it. 😩😟💔💔

shawn said...

One of my first and only memories with my grandfather was him get me a slice of that pizza. He died when I was 4. I ate it all the way through high school and was devastated when it closed. The old man that works at the new pizza place actually used to work at pizza de more. He said the owner would not share his recipe, even with his kids. I would also do anything for a slice of that pizza.

shawn said...

Went to smittys every Saturday with my dad for breakfast and or pepperoni pizza. Miss those days.

Unknown said...

Wow. Love the trip down memory lane! I do remember a few things and places that I had a lot of fun at Tommy's teen club on Camelback, Big Surf, tubing the Verde and gping to the midnight movies.

Franklin H. said...

The Big Tin Shed, Smitty 's pizza, Stevie Ray Vaughn concert 1984 Arizona State Fair, Weiss Guys Car Wash, Lunt Avenue Marble club fajitas, Phoenix Youth Soccer Club, New Wave girls with orange hair. Great times in AZ. From: a true Zonie

Anonymous said...

Arizona natives born and raised who remember when their state hadn't been ruined by Californian's yet and because of the overpopulation, were forced to eventually move. It was nice while it lasted. 1975-2005.


Worst sports fans ever. Didn't want the Diamondbacks because we lost the Firebirds. Didn't want the Coyotes because we lost the Roadrunners. (Tucson doesn't count). The Cardinals were ALWAYS the laughing stock of the NFL and did not deserve their new stadium because they could not even sell-out Sun Devil Stadium. The Suns only sold-out when they were hot. Anyone who remembers the '93 season would know just fake the fans were. The Devils are the only thing left in the Valley that counts.

GO DEVILS.


Anonymous said...

Mags Ham Bun, The Sundial Cafe, Los Olivos. Flying Circus at SkyRanch. High School beer parties at the old Carefree Studios set. When fashion square mall was still open air. Lake Powell filling up for the first time.

Anonymous said...

I would add
Cinema Park Drive in at 7th st and Missouri
Clowns Den 24th and Camelback
GiGi country western bar 40th st and Indian School
Red Dog Scottsdale
Farrell's Ice Cream Shop
Kings Resturant, ordered by phone, best onion rings ever!!

Anonymous said...

How about the 99'er on Apache Trail in Phoenix. Everything on the menu was 99 cents.

And what ever happened to Goog's on Camelback?

Unknown said...

Gooogies Restaurants.

Drive-In Theaters.

Lunch Counters in Skaggs.

Listening to the frogs croak along the canal bank at night. Roughly 36th st and Roosevelt.

Petes Fish & Chips next to Phoenix Drive-In theater.

Park and Swap to buy cool junk you never knew you needed.

Driving down McDowell rd for two hours to go tubing or to Fountain Hills


Anonymous said...

That bar at 19th ave and deer valley (before bliss) was the electric stampede. What a fun little bar!

Lee said...

Chapter 11

Unknown said...

Does anyone remember the name of the male revue club on Cave Creek Rd, I think? It was only open on the weekends.

Anonymous said...

Smittys's had the best breakfast too!

Unknown said...

it was Frank and Joe's Mason Jar ,, seen some cool shows there Mid-80's ,, and Party Gardens yeah -- DKs and Flotsam & Jetsom (Jason "Juiced Head" was still with them :-))

Unknown said...

Oh then you remember the Depot bar

Unknown said...

Wow. I've found the flashback page.
Bob Simond Pontiac 'Right on the price, right on the corner of north seventh street and Highland'.
I-10 ended in Buckeye
Smittys had a Liquor Dept.
Rockers
Mr Luckys
The Mason Jar
The Schoolboys
Looseley Tight

Unknown said...

Manzanita Speedway
John F Long Homes
Cinnamon toothpicks from Tangs on 15th ave & Roeser
Dobson was one lane, concrete, from Guadalupe to Chandler Blvd
1980s Tempe Bars Utopia After the Gold Rush Devil House Minder Binders Gallaghers
Maricopa Tech 40th St & Washington

Anonymous said...

Pizza mart pizza arcade in back park your bike outside and hope itdont get stolen, shooting pool at golden 8 ball, panchos the best everMexican food wow never be anything like that place again! Superfund arcade Tex critters, and oasis waterworks and freestyle bikes

Anonymous said...

Green stamps

Unknown said...

If you can remember Linda Alvarez, Dewey Hopper, Mary Jo West, the Phoenix Fire soccer team, the heavy rains that washed out the Tempe bridge, Lenny Monti's, Purple Turtle, Best a Wan pizza, Farrell's ice cream, Chavela's Mexican Food, King's Table, Valley West Mall, Yellow Front, Mervyn's, Price Club, Yellow Front, girls selling flow ers on street corners

Unknown said...

Yup!

Anonymous said...

What about:
Pinnacle Peak
Reatta Pass
Minder Binder's
JD's
Woolco
McCrory's
Green Gables
The Wax Museum
The real stockyards
bhind the restaurant
on Washington (& the
Smell!)
A J Bayless
Skagg's Drug Store
Phar Mor Drug Store
Tumbleweed's rolling
down the street
The movie theater in
Christown having a
2nd floor balcony
Woolworth's
Hayden Flour Mill
Japanese Flower
Gardens on Baseline
VanBuren was a major
road going from Phx
to CA with huge
hotels and motels
Tasty Freeze
Real dog races at Greyhound Park
When tubing down the Salt/Verde rivers was
free
Rollerworld on 32nd
St/Thomas
Keg parties in the
desert off Curry Rd
Easter Service at the _mtn steps on
McDowell coming from
Scottsdale into Phx
Der Weinerschnitzel
A&W Rootbeer Stands
(really could go on)

Anonymous said...

When Squaw Peak was Squaw Peak

A desert party was just off the I-17 at Happy Valley Rd.

Anonymous said...

The original Delectable Dog Scottsdale, Tempe Glendale.
The Best Homemade Cheese fries �� a real Chicago Beef voted best of Phoenix from new times 83-84 Best Hotdogs!!!

Anonymous said...

Driving from Mesa to Chandler on Country Club at night it was cool because of all the farm fields.
Edmus Scary hosting movies on one of the independent channels.
Mustang Drive In Chandler, Velda Rose Drive in Mesa $2.50 a carload
Brown & Hoye Chevrolet, Mesa
Wilkie's Speed Shop
Price Road was just two lanes
Quart House Bar, corner of Price & Apache

Anonymous said...

Having my first "legal" drink at the Squeeze Box 44 & Thomas. The BEST sound system in the valley. They played vinyl and loud. Beautiful girls in swimsuits dancing. To be young again!!

Anonymous said...

Waiting all night to buy Rolling Stones Tickets at Dillards 1981
Great show, was a big event. Sun Devil stadium was packed.

Tim said...

This is wild, I recognize most of these. The worst part was how many cassette tapes I lost by leaving them on the dash board in high school in the late 80's, they would melt.

And I remember when I-10 didn't connect through in town, and before there was a "stack," or 101, 202, 303 or even 51 highways. Oh, and the 60 was called the "Superstition Freeway," even on the big green sign when you entered it.

Screed said...

Preston's was my favorite. I remember coming back to town after graduating from Uni out of state and frantically looking for a dance club catering to the same clientele as those you listed. All I could find was something way on the west side. As my luck would have it, Preston's opened up right around the corner from my parents house. (I boomeranged and lived back with my parents after college). I remember many nights sneaking out even during the week to get my drink and dance on in hopes of meeting the boy of my dreams.... for that night at least

Manrobcool said...

Can't believe nobody mentioned The Great Alaskan Bush Company

Stevie j. Edwards said...

Wow! I remember almost all those thing's mentioned above. But who also remembers channel 10's PSA. Blessed is the nation who's God is the Lord. Craze how much this nation has changed..great time and place to grow up, I wouldn't change it if I could!

Shannon said...

Wow...this all takes me back. Stumbled across this blog when trying to find the name of the original movie theater at Metro Center. General Cinemas? I worked there while in high school.

susan pratt said...

anyone remember,billie clone and the same,Mr luckies , (Garcia's metro center) chips and salsa,Fifth nantional bank on central, mirical cars their sighn read (if it runs its a mirical)jack in the box would give you a free steak knife with steak dinner(not shure if all jack in the box had that offer,but a jack in the box in avendale was ,i dont know what avendale is like now but back then it was a rough neighborhood,they might as well of put free shive. Go see cal COMERCIAL,the orignal loan ranger with the donkey (pat gibbons)

susan pratt said...

in the 80's you could buy a used car from a car lot in glendale for next to nothing, they were called trade in's Someone would buy a new car and their current car tossed in on the deal, got them a lower price, and were sold to someone who couldnt buy new car.i had a Chrysler new port,no dents ,no rust x condition ran great,it was i think a 1968, paid $300, dodge dart no dents no rust ran gteat year ? 3 or 4 hundred, merc monetary $400 hundered x condition ,cutless supream olds 1968 $500.only if we knew then,what we know now, i would of kept all of them sitting on blocks,in storage.

Laura said...

Oh yeah: Rocks Arizona, in the deepest gravelly voice for " er Rocks" and "Arizona" in that sing song voice!!!

Laura said...

When they built " THE STACK".

Anonymous said...

This is driving me nuts and nobody can remember the name of that music group in the 80’s that was comprised of teens and they sang and danced at different events. It was like the boy band Menudo but it had girls also. We would see them at the state fair or other local festivities and athletic events . I think they also traveled a bit and were always featured on local news and radio stations . Any idea? I can picture seeing them perform and this one kid I went to middle with was in it . This is driving me nuts .

Unknown said...

Also forgot Mason Jar,tower plaza when it was a mall with a ice rink like metro and Anthony's dept store I'm sure I can think of alot more but this is spot on.

Unknown said...

Yes!!! And the restaurant they had.

Unknown said...

Farrells at metro was the best for birthdays but I think it was at Christown when Christown was a mall

Anonymous said...

Anyone know a Wendy,? Dated Lloyd?

Karin H said...

Umlimited free appetizers at The Spaghetti Company!
Playing PacMan at Hanratty's :)

Sean said...

TV-61 - "See the Music"
Organ Stop Pizza
Express Market
Shadow Mountain Skate Center
The Key - KEYX 100.3 FM
Roadrunner Park
North Town
Lookout Mountain
Hollywood Records

Anonymous said...

Anyone remember the Village Inn Pizza at 35th Ave & Thunderbird? The had a salad bar and showed old black and white cartoons and Flash Gordon films (shorts).

Unknown said...

I totally agree!!! I left for good in 2000. Hurts to see all the change. Class of 88 at Trevor Brown.

Unknown said...

For another option of tubing rather than the Salt River a bunch of us used to take our tubes to the Flumes way out in the desert. No one was supposed to go in that waterway. There was posted signs and all stating to stay away. Not sure what they really were but some kind of above the ground half tube transport of water from one place to another with the top half of it open except for some rails across the top all the way so it was awful easy for crazy teens with innertubes to get into if they knew where it was located. The guys would drive us there and at a certain point would know when to get their tubes ahead of the pack then reach above to the railing overhead and pull themselves and their tubes out then stay there & make sure that us girls got out safely also and drag us out if we couldn't swing back up safely. That was because there was a dangerous drop off at a certain point down the line with some kind of a grating that then sucked the water down underneath ground. I can't believe what I used to do when I was a teen.

Anonymous said...

Top Value Stamps & S & H Green Stamps! I Remember Them Very Well.

Gary K said...

I dont know if this has already been mentioned - but Stretch N the Truth used to play at PeterBobs bar on N. Cave Creek road in the early 80's on weekends and the place was packed. Red headed female singer was a star.

Kelly said...

Whatever and lotions and potions in the mall at metro center

Unknown said...

Do you remember the pizzeria in the golf n stuff parking lot across from metro center? It was delicious and literally in the parking lot of what is now known as coasters n castles.

Rich said...

Tommy's club on Camelback.
Shop n Go.
High Roller skatepark.
Bare Cover.
Collonade Mall.
Town & Country Mall.
I was pretty popular in the 80s too!

Unknown said...

Trails department store for the new kind of culture of the 90s! Coons Bluff at Salt River AJ was retirement in the Sticks as well as the Renaissance fair stupid 100.3 kzrx , coffee houses and the Spaghetti Factory

scribbler said...

Starship Fantasy arcade @ 35th Ave & Northern
Orange groves and cotton fields
Hollywood Greats hosted by Jim Rose on Channel 5
Action Theater and Adventure Theater back-to-back on Channel 5 after Saturday morning cartoons
Watching Ladmo pick your postcard out of the hopper and winning a Ladmo Bag
Cruising Metro

Anonymous said...

Maggie Brock KZZP
The electronic clock that would announce the time on the morning show on KZZP
Steve Goddard (how do you do-dere) Afternoons
Jonathan L on KQ
Rosati’s Pizza in Tempe

Anonymous said...

You mean not “Blitz”?

Unknown said...

I remember the furniture store called the big ten shed

Unknown said...

Any one remember the furniture store calle the big ten shed

Paul said...

I went to Phoenix on holiday from the UK for 2 summers in 1985 and 86. Had an amazing time and experience.

I remember:

MetroCentre
Bobby McGees restaurant and bar - still got the little match books
Zazoo Nightclub - still got the match books
Rusty Pelican Bar
Lunt Avenue Marble Club
Denny's

Stayed at the Biltmore Club Apartments

Everything else is a blur, considering the alcohol consumed over a period of a month each time.

DM me on Twitter @paulallanson23. Would love to chat to anyone around Phoenix that time.

HardTruths2018 said...

You ever used to say, "Come on ovah to Peter Piper Pizza!"
You used to "cruise Metro."
You thought Evan Mecham was the biggest problem Arizona could ever have.
You lifted to be "buffed."
You waited in line at Graham Central Station, then Studio West, then Graham Central Station.
You noticed that persistent vomit smell at that one particular spot as you entered After the Gold Rush.

Unknown said...

Hitting the clubs, pointe at tapatio, Vinnie's, confetti's and Malarkey's, after hours at Hot Bids for the best underground music...the first time I heard boy George lol

Tara said...

Park-n-Swap... right?!

Tara said...

I do! My mom loved Fed-mart and Winco!

Anonymous said...

Video Roundup arcade in Scottsdale.
Bare Cover and Sidewalk Surfer.
The Wedge.
Scottsdale Six Drive-in.
Smitty's �� by the slice.
Boss fountain drink cup.
Beeline dragstrip.
Los Arcos Mall
Pancho's in Los Arcos Mall

Unknown said...

I grew up here, remember Los Arcos being built watched tore down weekends with ur 4x4 in the water blue point bridge good times, thanx 4 the memories.

Unknown said...

Awesome

Leslie Robinson said...

If you owned a water bed from Sun Valley Waterbeds

Theresa 1980 said...

I’m looking to reconnect to Jane and Julie - you’re friendly neighborhood bartenders. Give me a heads up if you hear from them.
tjelwell@yahoo.com.
We were THE originals Graham Girls!

Anonymous said...

Cheeks

Unknown said...

Loan Arranger and Carlotta Sales with their sidekick donkey..i think his name was E Z money...for Sonoyta Motors

Unknown said...

I can go further back. the Skateland next to Big Surf used to be Roller World

Unknown said...

your #22 incorrect year. only reason I remember is because I watched it at the hospital while in labor lol...it was June 1993

Irisheyes said...

I remember going to Ponchos, but cannot remember the year.
To the girl who mentioned Smittys, I remember Smitty's had the best vanilla and chocolate swirl cones ever on 35th Ave & Peoria.
In that same area was the original and still standing Garcias!!!
Anyone remember when Thunderbird was a dirt road and Bell Rd.'s pavement ended at Turf Paradise and pick back up around Cavecreek Rd. The Wagon Yard was the main feature on Bell and CaveCreek at the time ansbthere where a bunch of bars in the area that were country.
If you drove south on Cave Creek it was like club alley. I lives it because the variety of music qas just fabulous. You go from country to rock, Bid Band, Elvis impersonators(believe it or not).
Mr. Lucky's was the place to go if you were a minor because they were terrible at carding people.
You could go to a bar all night as long as your parent was present.
You could buy a pack of cigarettes for your parents as long as you have a signed note from one of your parents.
You could only drive around Metro Center 3 times only. After that it would be considered cruising and you could get in trouble. We also still have a lot of icons here in Phoenix restaurants stores that have been here forever and thank you all for the reminders

Irisheyes said...

So, now who is going to collect,compile, and synthesize all this new info into a newly alphabetic list that we can print out?

Anonymous said...

Ken Coy reporting the latest on the Tyson family (gang) in Death Valley preying on stranded motorists for a long time allegedly.

Anonymous said...

Seeing Ladmo shopping at Christian Mall.

Anonymous said...

Playing with crayfish in the irrigation ditch off 19th Ave underground circular tunnel near Keim Drive by the Horse ranch that existed there. When water was not flowing those days of course.

Anonymous said...

The flood that put schools like Orangewood Elementary School on 19th Ave & Orangewood Ave. out of commission for weeks in the late 70's and kids were busses to other schools while it receded and the schools repaired.

The solar eclipse too that we got to not see as we did not have the correct eye protective wear.

Anonymous said...

Correction to above: Ladmo personally shopping at Christown mall. Gotta love autocorrect right?

Anonymous said...

How about Bob's Big Boy and Googie's and The Sizzler either with the family or friends.
And the romantic evenings on top of Camelback Mtn. watching the lights below
(before there were so many lights).
Climbing Squaw Peak every weekend!!!
The smell of the desert after the rain (when there was still a desert).
Smitty's for anything and everything.
Sabin's for cowboys with money and Yellow Front for us regular folk.
7 Eleven for hanging out and snacks

cinphx said...

JimmyZ & Parachute Pants

Unknown said...

Been here since 76 Suns in the finals against Boston Celtics most places are covered here I just want to mention The Janitors Closet in Christown Mall it was below ground by the Movie Theater and the ever not politically correct Sambos on 19th ave and northern ave remember the golf coarse there also. Uncle Johns game room on 21st ave and Glendale next to Washington HS. cruising up South Mountain ( cost 50 cents to enter ) the drive in Movie Theatre at 43rd and Indian School cant remember the name help me on this one. The actual Dog Races at greyhound Park on Washington st Foremost Dairy 19th ave and Glendale. Maryvale was a nice part of town created by John F Long vouchers and as I said nice job on the others sites

don said...

Nearly 7 miles of cotton fields between Chandler and Mesa.
2 or 3 miles of fields between Chandler and Gilbert.
Drive from Chandler to Williams AFB took forever... AND the half built spaceship!!
Winchell's Donuts
Cruising Main in Mesa. Sad when it was closed down.
Cruising central.
Door slammer racing
Dave "The Wild One" Pratt, and him getting in trouble by offering tickets for
the Stones concert if some one burned down the Chandler Christmas Tree.
Keg Parties !! Papago park !!
Take it off point tubing the salt, and when they tried to fence off the jump spot!
Cliff diving out at Canyon lake
Falling in love with Mary Q. - personal -
Getting dumped by Mary Q. and 40 yrs later still in love with her. -personal-
Chaparral speedway

Even with all the rough things going on in my life back then, Class of 82, BEST
teen years possible anywhere! Best friends from Westwood and CHS.
Wish I could go back..Now I would know to appreciate it more, be more respectful of
everyone. !

Unknown said...

Wow, who is your mom?? I worked there until it closed?

Gary K said...

Unable to find any reference to Peter Bob's - dive county western bar - on N Cave Creek Road that used to have the band Stretch N the Truth play on weekends. Peter Bob used to sponsor a softball team locally also. He would pull at Sunday am games in his RV with a garbage can full of beer for the team. Place was packed on weekends. Cant find anything in Google land about this fine establishment.

Paul said...

No one mentioned flumimg not that I ever did.
Sun City was in the middle of no where and lake pleasant was even further out.
Always took 2 shirts in the summer time so you could have a dry one when you got where you where going.
Every car had Arizonia ram air, roll down the windows and drive faster

Jim Miller said...

Yep, Alice was going to Cortez High School at the time!

Jim Miller said...

Indian Drive-in!

Karley said...

Going to Bartlett Lake or Saguaro Lake without a long line, Acapulco Bay Beach Club, Monastery, Greasewood Flats

dog defender said...

KRIZ AND KRUX stations

dog defender said...

70's yep 👍

Unknown said...

I played Bashas bingo,I won a weekend at some resort in Tucson! I was only 17 so I had to take an adult. I took my grandma!

WenWatWho said...

What was looking for a Wendy?

Unknown said...

What about KRIZ and KRUX? Then came KDKB. On FM.

Unknown said...

Mesa ampitheater

Unknown said...

Grew up at 35av and Peoria. We had a Luckys grocery store..Skaggs drug store and Yellow Front disc store on the corner also Peter Piper on the end. Smarty across the street. Capt Bills subs next to St Jerome's church. Service Merchandise on 43rd Ave. Worked at Garcias Mexican rest when I was 16. Rode our bikes to metro to play video games. My brother worked at Gemco. Tubed the salt river.

Anonymous said...

I was the manager who opened that small Peter Piper at 35th
Ave and Peoria back in 1982! Great neighborhood back then. Really enjoyed the customer base. Most of the employees were Moon Valley H.S. students, but we had a few from Cortez.

Gary K said...

Here is a long shot: How about Peter Bob's Watering Hole on Cave Creek Road in N Phoenix? Used to have a band 'Stretch N the Truth' there on weekends with a red haired female singer (Robin - I believe). Place was packed. This would have been early to mid 80's. Thanks.

Gary K said...

On the Peter Piper comment: Used to be at 35th Ave/Dunlap (Los Compadres Apts) which was a nice place and area back then. Sounds like it is a war zone now. If I recall, wasnt there a Smitty's at 35th Ave / Peoria? Thanks

Anonymous said...

There was, indeed, a Smitty's across the street at 35th Ave. and Peoria (southwest corner) and the small Peter Piper was in the Lucky-Skaggs shopping center (northwest corner). It was on the end of the shopping center,tucked behind a United Bank building. Before the Peter Piper there was a Peter Piper, it was briefly Waldo Pepper's Pizza... and before that,it was a Straw Hat Pizza. You're right about the neighborhood now, though - nothing like what it used to be. Such a shame that so many once-nice parts of Phoenix are now dumpy.

Unknown said...

East Phoenix?

Tom Jones said...

King's Table and Pancho's on 10th St. and Indian School were our weekly family eat out nights growing up. The soft serve ice cream in a bowl covered in toppings. Good times

Anonymous said...

Loved Tommy’s and Truffles at Valley West Mall

Anonymous said...

Watching Wallace & Ladmo, phx inferno soccer

Anonymous said...

Jello wrestling at Dillingers

Watching Mariners spring training baseball for free on little league fields and benches

Baha bugs mixing it up in the desert sand

Floating Salt River and knowing all pit stops to get out at to ride bus back to base.

Anonymous said...

Clear blue sky (really blue, not brown-blue)
Kids whining that Peter Piper's Hergyball (skiball) took ten tokens and didn't give them tickets.
Come on ovah... to Peter Piper Pizza!
Angel Flight pants to Jordache jeans to parachute pants to ripped jeans
Compton Terrace
Crazy Dave Otto, Dave Pratt, Johnny in the Morning (Jonathan Brandmeier)
Malarchy's, After the Gold Rush, Zazoos, Grahams/Studio West
Evan Mecham

Anonymous said...

Park and swap and the greyhound dog races!!!!

Anonymous said...

You could see jackrabbits at 83rd av& Greenway where the city grew around a huge empty lot and the rabbits got trapped there

Unknown said...

The Cinema Park Drive-In

7th street and Missouri.

Anonymous said...

Smitty's pizza was so amazing!

Anonymous said...

Remember sleeping on the blow up rafts in your pool when the power would go off after a huge monsoon. Then riding same rafts down your flooded streets to meet your friends doing the same thing.

Duffy D said...

"Have another beer Dave"!

Anonymous said...

Many great memories at Compton Terrace a lot of concerts!! Last one I saw was Nazareth

Anonymous said...

Wow remember all these!! What a flashback!!

Anonymous said...

And before K-Mart it was WT Grant, Woolco, Newberrys McCrory's and TG&Y

Anonymous said...

I wish both Monti's were still in business. Best steaks ever!

Anonymous said...

It was Goony Golf and they had 2 locations: I-17 @ Bethany and 39th St @ Thomas Rd

Anonymous said...

That guy that worked at Rundels after it moved to Priest Rd was so weird! I'm not surprised he would sell alcohol to underage teens. He had a little TV behind the counter and was always watching the Suns games

Anonymous said...

I do! They were for Sonoyta Motors in Glendale and had 3 characters in their ads that I remember: The Loan Arranger, EZ Credit and Carlotta Sales. The ads were so dumb they were kinda funny and became cult classics!

Anonymous said...

Wickes and Sticks in most of the malls where you could load up on incense too

Anonymous said...

I never knew Jutenhoops was down there but I remember Bert Easley's magic shop at that location.

Anonymous said...

I remember several Fedmarts around town but not that one. Where exactly was it and what's on that land now?

Anonymous said...

Indian School Road is STILL the only east-west street that has a bridge over Grand Avenue! (I'm not counting Maryland Ave because that's basically a residential street), and why did they spend all that money to build a bridge for a minor street like that anyway? ADOT is incompetent !

Anonymous said...

What was Canterbury Carnival? I remember the name but not the facility.

Barry Dufuko said...

Who here has been to Nickel Palace?
Remember when they blew up the Manistee Town Center mall for the movie 8 Legged Freaks?
Who played in irrigation water at their grade school?
"~BURP~ Pepsi!" -Dave Pratt
Biting a corner off of Ponchos sopapillas and drizzling honey inside.
Calling collect, but saying the phone number to the pay phone as your name so your friends can call you after they paged you.
Pistol Pete's being better than Peter Piper, but Peter Piper having pink vw bug with '57 Bel-Air fins on it as promotional delivery vehicle.
Getting a free promotional shaved haircut at the barber shop next Smitty's in support of Charles Barkley in the early 90s.

Anonymous said...

Love's Wood Pit BBQ, I was there many times

HardTruths2018 said...

Pistol Pete's better than Peter Piper (hahahahahahaha)? I laugh because I worked for both companies. (I disagree with Barry Dufuco.) I could tell the story of the strange relationship between the two companies, though - but why speak ill of the defunct? Suffice it to say that the better company won.

Valley West Mall (before it was Manistee) had a nightclub, but I can't remember its name. It also had a Mongomery Ward's.

After the Gold Rush in Tempe was a great multi-level place located in the old Dooley's.

Most nightclubs let you in if you were ugly, but you still needed a shirt with a collar.

Everybody wore skin-tight pants in the first part of the 80's but parachute pants later.

There were seven Dirty Drummer bars, and they had great beer-battered mushrooms.

Moon Valley High School was the state football champion.



Gary K said...

Peter Bob's Watering Hole - bar on Cave Creek Road in N Phx. Used to have a country band named Stretch N' the Truth on weekends. The place was packed. Peter Bob used to sponsor a softball team on Sunday mornings. Used to bring tubs full of beer on ice to the games. A good American!

Anonymous said...

Lunt Avenue Marble Club. The home of "I got potted". A flower pot filled with several Liqueur and fruit juices and you got to keep the pot which said "I got potted at Lunt Avenue Marble club". Camel back and Central area.

Anonymous said...

How about Dewy Hoppers pow game during the afternoon weather.

Anonymous said...

Mel's diner was. Based off of a diner on McDowell and approx 19th Ave or maybe closer to 15th Ave but it was called Al's Diner I believe, but that place was still open 20 years ago and I took my family there back then and it was falling apart in everyway sadly. I ordered a apple juice for my two year old son and my baby drank it and started acting drunk and sure as shit that apple juice was completely fermented. Ya. So that's my story on going to the Mel's diner place. Also I totally was pissed yes and had a few choice words for them serving my baby alcohol but none the less he only had a few drinks of it, thank God, he fell asleep and woke up and back to sleep, poor baby, but he was fine. No permanent damage done to his little brain or body. Today he is healthy, smart as an encyclopedia and in the Navy. Also he never did drink in highschool or even when he turned 21 he is straight no alcohol no drugs no cigarettes. Loves apple juice.

Anonymous said...

Remember the "flower girls" that used to stand on the corner of busy intersections with a bucket of fresh flowers that they sold

Maui Guy said...

Going to Vinny's on Camelback and Scottsdale Rd.'s. Then driving home South on Scottsdale and realizing that the porn shop on Scottsdale and Thomas was PACKED on a Friday night!

Barry Dufuko said...

I'm talking about when Peter Piper first came out, Pistol Pete's was better because they had a play room and Peter Piper didn't. At least the one by me didn't. Later, it seemed like Peter Piper bought them out because a Peter Piper showed up in it's place at 43rd and Dunlap. I also worked at Peter Piper, the one on the east side of Metro, before they moved over by Best Buy on the west. That was a fun time working the play room!

Anonymous said...

Mr. Luckys, Corkys backyard on 47th Ave., across the street from Home Depot, the Alpine Village restaurant on seventh Avenue and camelback, Mary Coyles, ice cream

Anonymous said...

Patrick

Shannon said...

Oh, my gosh! I've driven by what's left of Alpine Village a few times and could never remember the name. I loved going there as a kid!

Anonymous said...

Dooley's-turned-After the Gold Rush in Tempe; Minder Binders; Zazoos; Graham Central Station, which became Studio West, which went back to being Graham Central Station, which closed and moved to Tempe; Acapulco Bay Beach Club; Bobby Magee's; Crazy Dave Otto; Dave Pratt; Jonathan Brandmeier (Johnny and the Leisure Suits); International Fitness Centers; cruisin' Metro; Dewey Hopper; Linda Alvarez; Deborah Pyburn; Evan Mecham; summer monsoons that rained and destroyed stuff; cold winter nights that were really cold; large malls with hundreds of stores but no Walmarts.

Anonymous said...

S&H green stamps, bill Johnson's big apple, manzanita speedway & little Elvis at long wings on mill, just west of the beast (6 east) downtown Tempe. Also the y dash inn across from ASU. Freddy's down the road (the library). HB Hanratties (belive it still there) Porkys back yard. Ya saw Andre the giant at the veterans memorial coliseum... and so many more!

Anonymous said...

I am shocked no one remember Sgt Peppers! The spot to club for teens! And driving to south side to get black hair care products! If anyone mentioned this prior sorry I missed it! But those were some memories moving here in the 80’s from Michigan!

Anonymous said...

Yes, it’s where the show was filmed.

Anonymous said...

Yes

Anonymous said...

citrus groves on bell on the way to sun city

Anonymous said...

oh for the 70s
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Anonymous said...

I was the head bouncer at The Pointe of View Disco at the Pointe Resort on 16th Street north of Camelback Road.

“Goodnight Don. Goodnight Floyd.”

The horror movies at midnight on Channel 5 on Saturday nights.

KDKB

Coronado High School.

The Lamp Post Inn on 83rd Street and McDowell.

Stan’s Delicatessen.

Loloma Elementary School

The Lulu Belle Restaurant in old Scottsdale

The cheese crisps at Los Olivos Mexican Patio in old Scottsdale

Anonymous said...

I remember KDBB's Rock-n-Red party's at Porky's Back Yard. Grand Central Station, The Library(club), Grand Central Station. Desert between Union Hills and Deer Valley. 7th St. And Deer Valley desert party's. The White Tanks. Going down the Flumes and having to reach for the rope to climb out, for fear of going all the way down. Cruising Central and Metro Center. Greenway Highshcool surrounded by partial Desert. The Library Cafe was a hot night club. Sun City's palm tree's were short and it was Only Sun City. U-Totem was the only store in Deer Valley. The Cloud Dancer movie was filmed at Deer Valley Airport. The Ice-skating rink at Metro Center and then the Arcade with the full size carousel replaced it. Baskin and Robbins 51 flavors was the high end ice cream shop. Peter Piper Pizza was new. Appetito's Sub shops. Climbing Adobe Mountain. Thunderbird Park and the Orange Grove's. Leather and Lace nightclub, had Rock-roll and Country. Mr. Lucky's before and after the Bull Pit. Voting on a Swimming Pool or Hand Ball Court for Greenway Highschool, when the had The Greenway Demons. The Wrigley Mansion. When The Biltmores track homes were first built. Crazy Ed's restaurant and club. When the hottest dance clubs were in Phoenix. Sperry Rand Corporation. When floating down the Salt River was free.

Anonymous said...

Chapter 11

Anonymous said...

And then Duck Park

Anonymous said...

Wasn't Confettis at 20th Street & Camelback. Before or after Mardi Gras?

Anonymous said...

I remember playing on those submersible out at legend city at the entry points

Anonymous said...

Old Madison #1 School - 16th & Missouri

Anonymous said...

I remember thus between 1985 and 1990 used to see Santa there and they had a Xmas tree with gifts for poor homeless less fortunate people

Anonymous said...

TRAILS

Anonymous said...

Legend city, paragon park

Steve49 said...

Phunk Junkeeeeeeezzzz
Zia Records
Running through Dilliards to be the 1st in line when tickets go on sale
Paraphernalia Boutique - Where we all met some cool buds
Runnin tables at the Golden 8 Ball
Verde river Offroading and Keg Parties
The Caves on the way out to the river
Raising the Flag at Panchos Buffet
Great Alaskan Bush Co $1 Dives
Mesa Amphitheatre
AT's Sportbar on Cave Creek


Anonymous said...

Dont forget. EZ credit 🐴

Anonymous said...

The golden eightball and the golden que
Eds fish and chips
Petes fish and chips
Avoiding grand ave at all costs so you don't get the train.
Angie's and jimmies pizza
Thrasher land the skate ramps and go carts
Parties and the river bottom and the tracks
The purple turtle
After-hours at the paradox
The live bull and Mr Lucky's
Male strippers at grahams Central station.

Anonymous said...

ducky! This is Lennon! KUKQ! Blitz, dv8, sunrise!

Anonymous said...

Zip around jeans !!!!!

Anonymous said...

I am a fellow slopper, I remember painting the s.... anyone north of hatcher road between 7th and 19th Ave remember er climbing up to cloud 9 the old short lived restaurant on north mt.

Anonymous said...

Chapter 11

Anonymous said...

Yep, chapter 11…..

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