And I envy him terribly. I was born in 1998 & always felt I’ve been cheated out of the true American experience. Videos like this are all I have.

Haha you probably went to school with my dad dolend Hodges or his brother John Hodges. .I was born in 1979 and even In my 40 years the change is crazy I drove down mill the other day. didn't even recognize the streets i was on!!. And I actually rented a small old house when I was 20 near 5th and ash . It's gone but it's so different looking I couldn't even figure out the spot it was in

Dee Ann Though my parents moved back to Ohio two years later, in time for my birth there, my older brother was born at St. Joseph’s in 1947. While in AZ they lived south of the airport near 24th St/Univerity and at 20th St./McDowell. My wife and I moved to Phoenix in 1976 and by 1986 my parents and all siblings were in the Valley as well.

I lived near encanto park for many years. I worked at st jo's. Would go to Dee's on 5th ave and thomas, mary coyles, hamburger works 15th ave and thomas (still there) Its all changed. Have you seen 7th ave and osborn? Its high rise apts, park central area has changed bc of the light rail. In the 70s I used to say phx is a smalll town. And WHAT happened to scottsdale? Everything is busy and crowded together. We live in a big city that seems to have no end

@@lastnamefirst4035 Scottsdale got to big thanks to Herb Drinkwater the yuppies of the 80s there wanted more more more. Now its divided into North and South Scottsdale high crime homeless at intersections wanting money I don't even dare go through downtown on a Friday or Saturday night its DUI central.Glad I moved out of there.

@@Nova-ne1il Wow. SMH.

😂 😂 😂 😂

Head down on the desk in Social Studies lol.

flagstaff is a human shit hole

I just passed through Phoenix last year and it has grown very fast and big over the years. I used to live in the Camelback East Village and E. Indian School RD and N. Alma School Rd area back in the 70s. Things were just simple then too. Most of the people in my neighborhood came from the mid-west and east coast. My family came to Phoenix from Ft.Campbell Kentucky when my Dad retired from the Army. I moved from Phoenix to San Diego living with my Uncle who was a career Navy man and moved all over for 5 years up and down California and finally Pearl Harbor Hawaii. I finally stayed with my parents after the also moved to Hawaii because mom hated the desert. I finished high school in Honolulu Hawaii and into the Army where I roamed around the world for the next 23 years. I just have to get some vacation time from the job here in Vegas and roam around Phoenix and see my old childhood stomping grounds. Nice to remember Phoenix in the old days.

@J J You should came back to Az. and never look back at Ca.

@J J Nope not at all People are saying the hell with Ca.its turning into a dump and are getting out.

@J J Yes fall winter spring summer its just a cycle we are going through no matter what we do mother nature will do a 180 and fool you think of all the CO2 that comes out of the ocean.

Besides on TV, I remember their stage show at Legend City.

You guys are probably my age. I remember both of those too.

Wallace and ladmo came to our School Griffith 1976 I almost won the egg throwing contest,😆

And Alice Cooper..lives in scottsdale and likes to talk about wallace and ladmo

Lived in Arizona until 2002 still miss it enjoyed

Sure it is. You're just in the wrong parts, I guess!

​@@BPoweredLovenot at all

My house in year 2000 was worth like 150k. Now I just got the property evaluation from the county so they can raise my taxes again and they say it’s worth 500,000 dollars. Not a cheap place to live anymore. Not clean either. Maybe if you’re living like right next to the giant homeless encampment next to the capital building lol

I was almost born there in 1979

Collin Bennett for real 😂😂😂😂😂

Johnathan Giles I was wondering! Awesome.

I came to the comments just to say that as well. Such a great voice!

that water is so gross now homie lol. I went with my friend like 2 years back and broke out in a crazy rash that lasted over a week.

Phoenix is a nice place to live still. I was born and raised here.

The freeways were outdated in the 70s basically only 2 freeways I17 flowing down to the 10 and east and west there was not much you should see it now during rush hour.

Bet you’d REALLY love it now!

My buddy who works for adot says they’ve been trying to double decker the i17 for like 30 years. Would help a lot but nothing ever comes on it.

That was how broadcasters and announcers were supposed to talk. They didn't talk like that in any other times except when they were on camera or audio recorded.

Home For Me, Since 1973 😀

1963

Home for me since birth, 1973

@@carmenvillaverde797 74

What made it amazing?

Like the smell of the Tovrea stockyards, the humm and odor of evap coolers, the floods...?

No freeways

the "hundred year floods" that came every year from 70 to 80....LOL@@BillLaBrie

My mom used to tell me about the canal and how it was always at risk of breaking and flooding all of north central lol.

If you still owned that land it would be worth over a million dollars

Was my parents land.@@billyshears2032

Legend City!

how we could let our only amusement park close (I don’t count castles and coasters) baffles me. It’s a market of 5 million people

*Mogollon

Sounds like moe gee on

you feel old? OMG...I remember when McCormick was built!

I drove a truck delivering flowers when I lost my real estate job during COVID. I had to make deliveries to that development regularly. One day I get to a house and the woman answers the door dressed in all black like she just got back from a funeral. I didn’t read the card or anything but made an assumption and told her I was sorry for her loss. She thanked me and told me her friends sent her flowers from across the country because her cat died. I was speechless. Went back to the van and sat there for like 10 min thinking how the other half live. I’m sure this women never worked, and had a pretty easy life living in her multi million dollar home. If real tragedy ever struck her, I bet she would be a complete basket case.

Too many interstates? There's only 6 spread out amongst the entire state. This city/state is idiotic for not taking advantage of the Interstate system back in the 60s and 70s. The freeway system in Phoenix is TERRIBLE!

You have close to 6 million people living in the metro. Everyone drives. You want to get rid of freeways?!

Back then, it was splendid. Today however, far from it.

I live in Seattle, and i am dreaming about moving to Phoenix :(

Your right it's incredible!

It's beautiful

Compton terrace?

Desert Sky Pavillion?

@@drakawinkle584 bet it was compton terrace. Named after bill compton, disc jokey on kdkb in the. 70s. He was killed in a car accident

Sammy Scotch Did Compton Terrace have stadium seating? I only remember it as having a large grass area for sitting or standing. The last concert I saw there was AC/DC in 1982 when they were touring for their album "For Those About To Rock".

Sammy Scotch his girlfriend was driving, she survived

And wondering if those Suns will ever win an NBA Championship?

everyone who lives here homie is transplants. They bring their allegiance to their home teams with them. It’s why all of our teams struggle even with a giant market.

@Trumpenstein Arizona is much prettier! And it’s MAGA COUNTRY!!! 😍🇺🇸❤️

@Trumpemstein You forgot the “A” And AZ will vote red again in 2020!

@Trumpenstein Do us a favor and vote for Trump. Do you really want big government and socialism to ruin this great country?

Yeah for the sequel

@@cal7121 WRONG not maga country just bc u want it to be

"Americans"or autentic americans

babsfocker I have friended people on Facebook from my childhood (elementary in the 80s - through high school in the 90s) & I never knew how many Mormons I grew up with. Point is, they've been here forever. And I'm not Mormon and I've never noticed them.

What a dumb thing to say - geesh

Too much of a lot of things now, this state has gone to shit.

I'll take Mormons over you, oiyabastard ! Don't like phoenix or Arizona ? Then DON'T come here !

You're state is shit, free samples !

Tinfoil hats engage!

Oh shut up, I've talked to many people who grew up in the 1970's and 1980's and they remember seeing vapor trails from planes. Go away troll.

luverizimo everyone in this video is probably a trump supporter now. you’re a fucking idiot if you think arizonans in the 70s/60s would be hillary supporters

luverizimo. Tell me why the economy is thriving. Home sales are up. W million new real jobs. Lowest black unemployment is the lowest in 30 yrs under trump? Also he gave planned parent hood 1/2billion$$ signed a 2 trillion spending deal and allowed more amnesty than obama..

Don't be blind, trump has done nothing to help anyone, only the rich !

luverizimo thank god!!! That means it won’t turn into another liberal shit hole!!! Please move!!!

carmen villaverde move to California dumb bitch