I've been back 8 times since 1990 and have no ambition to come back anymore, not sice mom died.

Pheonix is a tiny town compared to my city Toronto. 5 largest in North America. (Can, USA, Mex). 5.5 million

@@samboggs3499 That was about the size of it. I visited in 1993 (3 years after I'd moved) and it was barely recognizable.

Phoenix metro area: 4,857,962

@@italianguy4195 Toronto is a tiny town compared to New York.

Me.

My family has loved here for over 100 years!

@@RSofficial22 Congratulations! Arizona becomes more beautiful each day! ❤️ 😃 🏜

Mesa, Arizona! 👍🏼

I think your dad is my father. With him being a milk Man, that makes you my half brother.

Today with all the theiving nothing can be unlocked unfortunately.

iwasherenowiamnot ok what up half bros?

edward starling I locked my car and someone smashed out a window.

@@iwasherenowiamnotok8893 lols.

I agree!

I remember Homer Lane. His recorded voice gave the station identification many times every day on KOOL, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. This is K-O-O-L TV channel 10, Phoenix."

I remember Thomas Wall. My grandmother worked at the Singer Sewing Machine store there. I was about 6

I remember Thomas Mall - i was about 7 and my Grandmother worked at the Singer Sewing machine shop there. I remember the State Fair being such a treat !

They tore down Hopi elementary and rebuilt it, looks like a detention center now.

I went to hohokam elementary and Coronado high school moved away in 87 to denver but in 2020 I still think about those great days.

We move to Tucson on 65, my grand parent had stocks in the water rights in Az, Calif we were from Denver but my mom fell in love with the desert

Stationed at William AFB, 1965-1968, SCOTTSDALE had the Roma restaurant with great home made spomoni.

Grew up there as well. McCormicks was an actual ranch and the family still owned it; signs that said; 'You've passed Shea North; all the cacti along Scottsdale road were labeled as you drove out to Cave Creek; hiking around the Boulders; Shea Boulevard ended just beyond Taliesin West....

It has gone down hill since the mid 90s I used to live there now there is a barrio that the illegals call little Mexico you see homeless on the corners its went down since the days of Herb Drinkwater.

Scottsdale and Shea was a 4 way stop sign.

Grew up there too, same era. Went to Tonalea, Cocopah and Chaparral.

Same here born gonna die here hopefully

I grew up in south Phoenix, it was very beautiful there at one time, now I live in Avondale!

@J J where are you from?

@J J Im confused. Why did you say "stay there" to him then?

Raised there, & I left---now is is disgustingly hot & polluted. The heat island affect is horrid !!!! from the damn population. Glad I left !!!

@Pablo Sosa nice “comment” there pablo. That’s why people like you need to stay away from America. Go back to whatever hole you came out of

Innocence of who, white people? I could easily argue that there was no innocence back then when plenty of minority Phoenicians lived in poverty and were still being exiled or forbidden to sit where white people could sit. Sounds almost opposite of innocent.

My mom wanted to live on Ca.elback Mtn...1957...but way to expensive...$19,000....

Why

Michael Sanchez cuz it looks like we came from nothing

@@michaelsanchez3822 because literally it rose from the ashes

Lol keep an eye out for tweeeeeeekers

You want to know sad ? Look at one of these films of Detroit in the late 50s to early 60s and look what's happened to it now . That is sad

@@user-vh7ki7xu7o Yeah that is sad north Phx has turned into tweeker town.

Cindy Sue with new infrastructure for the tweekers

I was BORN here and the whole western US has been in a drought for 10 plus years so before throwing the race card check your facts please.

Phillip Morales you haven’t seen anything yet. Stick around another 15-20 years.

@@aussiejunk393 damn cuz, you avi my nigga Roger. I met him, but his arthritis was so bad he couldn't stand. His son be the alpha now.

shit hole

Roger the kangaroo!?! You da man!

@Danel 7.38 million if we're being exact and that's for the whole state of Arizona

@Danel but then again if you County illegal immigrants in this state yeah we're probably closer to your figure LOL

There is a good side to the c-virus and people staying in their homes.....NO stopping or slowing down on the FREEWAYS and city driving reminds me of the 70's with only one problem the lights are still set for rush hour traffic

Who's danel?

So sad but so true

Bl SI it looked like NE Scottsdale

@@brianjamds6617 And that is built up now crime is on the rise in that town homeless on corners that's why many moved up to anthem.

@@cindysue5474 They'll keep moving too. I love Arizona and Phoenix is a metropolitan love/hate dirge. She is always expanding but doesn't take care of her core and that rot will eventually hit the arms. I know many were supposed to be revitalizing downtown but I am sure the changes in administrative powers slowed that down. The last hurdle will be sustainability as the Hoover Dam uses the last water in the reservoir. Arizona gets the least amount of that power which is why the Palo Verde nuclear plant was necessary. SRP and APS will continue to duke it out over power and water rights. Phoenix needs to live up to it's name and rise above from the ashes.

I feel like that was the peak of Arizona. Maybe late 90s very early 2000

The California people who that moved here are assholes. They ruined our valley.

@@NonPremiumID Amen!

Lake Pleasant is haunted. People die there all the time.

​@@celestialbeing5291oh quit! Lol, Lake isn't haunted..folks just stupid!

Remember Legend City? Lol..I've been here since 1957.

certainly do and my brother worked there! @@bluegrassgal

@@bluegrassgalYes, I remember the jail-themed photo booth. I can still see my mom laughing at the pics. My brother made the funniest face while tipping up the liquor. I own the pic now. I also remember when you got inside the booth, there was a box of empty liquor bottles on the floor for prop use. You wouldn't see that now, someone would make a stink about the glass bottles and the influence of alcohol on young people.

@@bluegrassgal Legend City was awesome. To be honest, back then, I enjoyed Legend City more than Disneyland. Numerous great memories of Big Surf. Phoenix was idyllic in the 60's and 70's, laid back and a safe place to live. Lots of unique, cool restaurants that have disappeared. Thankfully Durant's still thrives.

Joseph Thibeault I’m currently an asu student at the old Williams airforce base training to be a pilot. Arizona State University has established this place as a new campus since the airforce base was left but it’s still filled with history and many of the old buildings remain.

Thanks for your service old timer, hope you were lucky enough to avoid the hellscape of SE asia.

That's impossible unless you're an Indian

That's the damn truth!

I don’t get it?

Stephen Fisher u mean the right way

DainTV Phoenix leads the world in wrong way drivers causing accidents on freeways. There’s been one or more a week for a couple years now.

All we had was one freeway the I17 north to the 10 south.

Are you Rusrty from Cortez High? I remember those days too. What a difference 55 years makes.

Try again you can live in Casa Grande if you miss the vast desert you don't gotta hate on modern living just cause you're old

That's bullshit, there's millions of acres of desert, in fact 85% of the land in Arizona is owned by the BLM, UFS, and the State Trust and is VACANT! GET A CLUE

There's still plenty of desert out there, it s not hard 2 find

One thing I've noticed isthere arent many skyscraper for being as big as it is Denvers skyline is way bigger than here kinda hope they have plans to expand the Phoenix skyline so it feels more like 5th biggest city in US

@tinovigil8259 The best plan for the skyline would be to get rid of the skyscrapers.

My husband went to Sunburst and Greenway High, but in the 90s. They came from CA too. NYC before that.

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For you maybe, we're still here why you cry about it

Her Turkey story was the best and Bobby Joe Trouble and Mike and the hubcaps sad that Mike took his own life.

Bc ppl like you moved here.

🤣😂🤣

1957 we moved here. I relate to your comment. Good Ole days!

Well, this probably was a CBS production, seeing as how they showed channel 10. So they couldn't acknowledge independent channel 5 and the Gerald show.

@@gregmiga1393 i was being humorous. Maybe i should have placed a 😂 at the end.

Mystery Castle.....I love the story, did a tour in 1990 and His daughter was there, it was Awesome to meet Her.

That show was great it would never fly today especially with Aunt muades thanks giving turkey story and Bobby Joe trouble.

@DUZTEM DE7IL In jail everyone got a Ladmo bag that's what they were nicknamed.

Merc420 ikr

you need to see the east coast. that's crammed. and 100 years older than phoenix...

well I highly recommend a road trip for you then. seriously Phoenix is a young, wide open and pristine city compared to 200 years of life in places like Boston and DC. They're still great but Phoenix has so much opportunity.

Sad from what i heard that Phoenix and all the places especially along Van Buren Avenue have been torn down since i last went there in 1979 especially Bill Johnson's Big Apple Restaurant torn down

@HalfBreed I grew up in New York City. Today, it sucks, as everything has gotten so damned expensive! For example, if you want to rent a one bedroom apartment in Manhattan, you better be prepared to spend anywhere from $3,000-$6,000 a month!

how old are you?

@Clinton Lewis 🙋🏼‍♀️ I grew up in Desert Hills. Im in Glendale now though

It's never too late to move back!

@@chavalolopez1182 23 now...

Moving back to the 1960's would require a time machine.

Bill. I am a native of Arizona and lived there my entire life until we moved to UPSTATE New York lol.. I left because it became too over populated and crime ridden due to everyone and their brother moving there! Blah.. Rochester reminds me of Phoenix when I was a girl... I am now 48

We don't care.

@@woesaidtheangelso Phoenix is worse than New York with crime? News too me

Matt M worse than upstate New York. Someone smashed out my car window in Phoenix on Friday night.

Smash and grab not unique to Phoenix it happens in all big cities and suburbs. Leave your car unlocked and they won't break the window.

Who is chief bogus bear 🐻

@@piratesmurf4251 The so called Cherokee Indian chief (a southeast tribe not found in the southwest), featured in the video making Navajo jewelry. LOL!

It was dope when they didn’t drink all the water

…and the Eagles almost moved to Phoenix in 1984; SB LII would have been Arizona's first world championship

Well go back to Philadelphia. Cuz we sure dont like out of towners either always complaining. Go home.

@Darren Krock Philly is a dumpster fire

Cameron Walter lol. I agree. Philly is disgusting!

@Darren Krock you arizonans. Dawg you haven't lived here to be considered one of us so you have 0 fucking understanding of us, please. Don't come back, we would much rather keep cancer away from our state.

Phoenix and surrounding area is their home.

It's still there bro, we stayed there a few years ago with big family reunion. It was fun!

Driving to Tombstone at night can be dangerous you will see signs saying caution and show a symbol of illegals running across the road when you have that you know there is a immigration problem.

Right? So many homes have alarm systems now a days.

Too many Cali people here now...people just off the boat from Wisconsin that you see in shorts when it's 45F out...and other crazies

@@contrafax Lolollll..thank you for the giggle!

@@lisahinton9682 😁

Yes it is!

Leslie: Everything is relative. Back in the mid-1960's, houses may have cost much, much less than they do today, but people made much, much less money! The national average of the cost of a new home in 1965 was $21,500, while the median annual income was $6,882. In 2015 (the last year for which complete figures are available) the national average of the cost of a new home was $352,500, and the median annual income was $56,516.

Johnny: Thank you for keeping things in perspective, and for the information. It was just a shock to see how things were back then. Again, thanks.

@@jherskine You're a fucken genius.

My mom paid 60.00 a month rent in 66, now it's 600 HOA fees, something about 6's lol

Good for you

1957....go North High Mustangs!

Dam your older than I am

I remember 1973 like it was yesterday.

@Liberty Tree of course we have problems. I didn't know there was a country without any problems. Idiot. Oh I forgot the USA doesn't because Trump will fix everything lol

@@italianguy4195 Hmm sounds like you've just described what Toronto looks like

@@josephbell2160 what the fuck are you talking about. Your wa6yyyyyyyyyyy off

@@josephbell2160 Phoenix pop is 1.62 2017 and Toronto is 2.93 2017 not even close. Pheonix is little the tiny brother to my city idiot

What do you mean what's happening to it

Agreed. My family founded Holbrook. Times have changed. I still love it though.

Probably means the crime, drugs and trashy people that have moved in!!

hotel channel Californians

BearAZ Across the Seven Seas America! Journey! Those are the ones I remember

It was until the early 1970's

@@BBQFanNo1 It was ok till the mid 80s.

@@cindysue5474 it was okay until the nineties.

Phoenix is worthless now. dangerous homeless people, dying businesses delayed construction projects.

Theres way too many open areas interspersed with small mountain ranges on the south and west parts of the metro area to be a true valley like the San Joaquin for example.