North Phoenix Blog

For more than 60 years, Turf Paradise has been an iconic horse racing facility in North Phoenix. The 1,400-acre facility is located near 19t...

While this site is focused on Phoenix history and news, I thought that readers of this blog might enjoy a special feature about my recently-...

If you are one of the more than 200,000 drivers that travel along Interstate 10 in Phoenix on an average day, you may have noticed an area c...

Like many cultures, Americans have designated special places as the final resting place for our loved ones. I'm talking about cemeteries...

El Cid Castle before its demolition. Photo by: Tony the Marine There is something about castles that captures the imagination. Castles ...

LEGO Store at Chandler Mall For decades, Lego bricks have endured as one of the world's most-loved toys. The brightly-colored interc...

Urban historians may be disappointed to find out that many of Phoenix's mid-century restaurants, banks, and coffee shops have long ago b...

You might think that North Phoenix, with its suburban tract housing and its shopping centers and strip malls, might not be a very interest...

There is an unwritten rule among United States Presidents that whenever they visit Phoenix, they always make time to grab some local Mexic...

I'm guessing that you are reading this because you are looking for things to do in Phoenix at night. Well, there are better things to ...

Although I have lived in Phoenix all my life, it wasn't until recently that I made time to check out Hunt's Tomb. Located in Papag...

Before Sky Harbor and before the Interstate Highway system, people traveled to Arizona by train. Sure, miners and trappers and ranchers came...

Like the mythical bird that rises from the ashes, the City of Phoenix really does keep re-inventing itself. In the city's real estate-...

Phoenix is a surprisingly easy city to navigate because it is built around a grid system. Roads with names run East and West while streets a...

It's hard to ignore the hipster craze that has taken America by storm. It seems like everywhere these days, more and more people are wea...

Regular readers of this blog may know that I have been keeping an eye on a very large office building under construction in North Phoenix f...

There are a hundred reasons why this weekend was not the perfect time to go for a bike ride. It was 104 degrees outside. I didn't have a...

Before the Agave Library opened its doors last summer, the Juniper Branch Library was the only place in North Phoenix where bookworms could ...

You just cannot mention Scottsdale, Arizona without mentioning Frank Lloyd Wright. The Taliesin West school in Scottsdale is a masterpiece ...

When it comes to car parts, it's no secret that the junkyards of Phoenix are among the best in the country. Cars do not get rusty and co...