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@Grantrichardson-mx8mr Күн бұрын
He sold the cart.
@doren8491 Күн бұрын
Take your legs out of the video an I'll watch
@michaelgarrow3239 2 күн бұрын
That’s why May 5th is a drunkin American holiday…. 😁
@BradHall 2 күн бұрын
I'll drink to that!
@jbardwell58 3 күн бұрын
I did the Walk for Mankind in Wichita, KS. Must have been about 1972. It was 21 miles.
@keithbongartz7462 3 күн бұрын
ROFL, ok, WOW, you had me at cursive, no one knows that anymore. :-)
@richardwenthen9391 4 күн бұрын
Looks more like a Half Windsor to me. Interesting stuff.
@BradHall 3 күн бұрын
Yes, I’m inclined to agree with you looking at it more carefully. I was a half Windsor man in my corporate days back in the 90s!
@julianf.wheeler3665 4 күн бұрын
Wow.
@timward3116 4 күн бұрын
I'm watching the Squad Car movie now on KZfaq. "B movie" was very generous. And someone should have told the writer that there is no "714 SOUTH McDowell" LOL. Still, every now and then a cheesy movie is fun.
@ricinro 4 күн бұрын
this is now called the Virginia Piper plaza
@BradHall 4 күн бұрын
Way, cool! Thank you!
@southwestAZ 4 күн бұрын
Fantastic
@southwestAZ 4 күн бұрын
Amazing!
@southwestAZ 4 күн бұрын
💛
@timward3116 5 күн бұрын
I don't know, Brad. You're right about the marketing, of course. But I just don't like Scottsdale's painted on patina. It still just seems like some sort of movie set to me, not a city with real character. Maybe it's just that I'm two economic levels from beneath all the hype.
@BradHall 4 күн бұрын
What a perfect description - "Scottsdale's painted on patina"! And it works so well, giving Scottsdale that bit of snobbery as if it were Beverly Hills or something. Us Glendalians would like to see some of that tourist money here, especially during the Super Bowl, when out-of-towners tend to stay in Scottsdale, and just drive into Glendale for the game. Glendale needs some of that hype, and some of that money!
@timward3116 4 күн бұрын
@@BradHall Geez, Brad, I should have hyphenated "painted on" and deleted "from" in the last sentence! Apologies for the poor writing. Sigh. Scenic Glendale. The little city that couldn't. I spent a lot of years living in poorer areas of Glendale and never could scrounge up any civic pride for the place - even though it has a stadium that looks like a Flash Gordon spaceship. I suppose that no civic pride is better than a snooty civic pride in an area that is soooo artificial. Glendale is huge, and I'm sure the "good parts" are very nice.
@BradHall 4 күн бұрын
Yes! And we have Chicken Day!
@timward3116 4 күн бұрын
@@BradHall I'm impressed! I can only imagine the food, festivities and games. Cerreta's chocolate-covered drumsticks. Chicken ice cream. Chicken tosses. Diving for chickens. Headless chicken races.
@user-ef9td1sk8i 6 күн бұрын
😮😮😮
@k7jeb 6 күн бұрын
Phoenix plows its commercial real estate under as frequently as the farmers did the cotton fields that preceded the present settings. Nothing in the entire Valley is built to last.
@BradHall 6 күн бұрын
Yes, Phoenix seems to get a facelift every few years making it unrecognizable, and I think that’s why most people don’t realize the city goes back to the 1800s
@k7jeb 6 күн бұрын
The Circle K stores originated in El Paso, Texas branded as "Kay's Drive-In Food Stores" and owned by one Fred Hervey, a local businessman who would become mayor there sometime in the early 50's and again in the mid-70's. When he expanded the chain to Phoenix, he ran into a naming conflict with another establishment and elected to change the name to the now well known form. He also owned a chain of drive-in restaurants called Oasis which had the now-iconic circular shape and was staffed by carhops. The 'OA' provided us El Paso teenagers in the 50's and 60's with an authentic, "American Graffiti" experience.
@flav7634 7 күн бұрын
It's a flux capacitor
@timward3116 7 күн бұрын
Only out west do people wear jackets and shorts, LOL. Loved the story you tell. Yes, my experience of rich people in general is that the best ones are quite oblivous to any reality beyond their own circumstances and the worst ones simply feel superior to everyone eles. The first is just ignorance; the second, stupidity and arrogance.
@BradHall 7 күн бұрын
Thanks for coming along with me on my cyber-adventures, Tim! And my best guess is that I would have gotten the jacket at Yellow Front - I never considered myself poor, but I shopped at places that the rich people would have never dreamed of going to!
@timward3116 7 күн бұрын
@@BradHall LOL! Been there, done that - as they say. I don't think I ever shopped at Yellow Front (I'm not sure we had them here, did we?). I think it was mostly K-mart and Payless Shoes for me. Sears would have certainly been too hoity-toity, but I might have bought a thing or two at Montgomery Ward's if I had to. I was not yet the fashion plate I became about ten years later (in the 1980s), when I elevated my game and shopped the "sale" racks at places like Miller's Outpost and The GAP.
@ChadV13 7 күн бұрын
I feel like we are not taught that alcohol is a drug not that there's anything wrong with alcohol but we should be taught that it is addicting and it can be dangerous and it should be moderated
@reallrain 7 күн бұрын
So cute!!!! What breed is she?
@BradHall 7 күн бұрын
Thank you! She's a piebald wirehaired dachshund. And she is my ♥
@ricinro 8 күн бұрын
I remember the KDKB crazy carrot at the midnight movies near curry road...the memories are as blurry as the '70s
@Iconoclasher 8 күн бұрын
In September 1962 my family moved to PHX from Wisconsin. We stayed at the Mayflower Motor Court, 3710 E Van Buren. Room #2. We lived there about 2 months. In fact I started 2nd grade at Crockett elementary school a few blocks away. (a few blocks to the northwest) In November we moved to Sunnyslope then transfered to Mt View Elementary. I drove by the old Mayflower and it's still there, well sorta anyway.
@timward3116 9 күн бұрын
I live here only because this is where my work was and my friends have always been. It used to be better, but now I really don't like it. But I put people and relationships over places - and I'm old now and have sort of become glued to this place. But there are many places I like much more: places of natural beauty and clean air; cities with public transit, free things to do, and a diverse culture and history; and any combination thereof. But to me, Phoenix is a concrete desert and a cultural wasteland. LOL! You asked.
@BradHall 9 күн бұрын
Yes, I did ask, and I do appreciate your point of view. I used to hear a lot of that when I lived in LA, seems to me that Don Henley said it the best - "Maybe we'll leave come springtime, Meanwhile, have another beer, What would we do without all these jerks anyway? Besides, all our friends are here, Down at the Sunset Grill..."
@timward3116 9 күн бұрын
@@BradHall Oh, was THAT what he was singing? I vaguely remember that song, but I don't think I had paid any attention to the lyrics (shame on me). Yeh, Brad, the place is what it is. If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I'll meet up with my loved ones "up there" and put my two-cents in for a new location for us all to meet in. It will be like deciding where to go for lunch or where to grab a beer. Besides, Phoenix will have dried up by the time we would be choosing - and I don't think anyone would vote for Baghdad, Phoenix's nearest competitor. I'll be voting for a greener, colder place where tall violent waves crash against a rocky seashore.
@BradHall 8 күн бұрын
@@timward3116 Hi Tim - Yeah, I was living in LA when that song was popular, "gazing out at the auburn sky" - it hit me hard, and I knew that I had to escape from there, and find a city that I could love, which I did, and for me it's Phoenix. I've seen tall violent waves crash against a rocky shore, and cost of living there just made me miserable, and I grew up in a green and cold place (Minneapolis), which I never liked. If I could be reincarnated, it would be to here, and now, with my little house in Glendale, and my little dogs. Thanks for being here with me!
@timward3116 8 күн бұрын
@@BradHall People lives are fascinating journeys, aren't they. I am glad you found a place you love, Brad - and you clearly LOVE it. Your entire channel illustrates that. My mother was the same way. When we moved out here from Chicagoland, she NEVER looked back. She loved her "little Arizoni." Me? Not so much. And she died 24 years ago and her "little Arizoni" ain't so little anymore. Except for a total of five years, I've lived here since 1974, when we moved out here before my senior year of high school. Too long a story regarding why I was gone five years sporadically, but since then I have lived in Montreal; Cork City, Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; and back in the Chicago area. I like each one of those places much more than here - but in each case, I found that I missed my human connections here and, though I don't like Phoenix, it truly did become home. When back in Chicagoland from 2007-2009, I nonetheless found myself listening to Beth and Bill on KEZ or going to the ABC 15 website and watching our news. I would particularly seek out stories that were set outside - outdoor shootings, car accidents, traffic backed up on the I-10, Circle K robberies, etc. Phoenix had grown on my soul and become a part of me - like a rash that wouldn't go away. I should write Phoenix lyrics to the tune of "My Kinda Town, Chicago Is." For the first time in my Phoenix-Glendale years, though, I live in a neighborhood that actually reminds me somewhat of my childhood in Illinois (north Central, between the 7's). I love this area, and I thank God every day for it!
@richardsampson249 10 күн бұрын
You should have given the price per gallon
@BradHall 10 күн бұрын
Yeah, it doesn't show in the pic, but my best guess would be about 15-20 cents a gallon
@stevenewbauer225 10 күн бұрын
Sorry, but seeing legs pedaling along in a video ruins the video., You really need to reposition the camera.
@BradHall 10 күн бұрын
Good feedback! I'll do another video this morning with the camera more angled up
@BradHall Күн бұрын
Hi Steve - I plan on doing a ride this week and will reposition the camera. My question to you is: should it be angled up, or should I try to do the view looking sideways? Appreciate your thoughts on this - Brad
@markbell9973 11 күн бұрын
Good old "24th n Van Buren!" The place name our mothers would use to drum up up little sympathy from us boys. My mom would say "You're gonna put me in 24th n Van Buren! That, along with lurid, melodramatic tales of Florence Junction "where rowdy boys go and sometimes never come back! Phx was somhow magic, growing up.
@BradHall 10 күн бұрын
Yep! I didn't grow up here in Phoenix, but I have a lot of friends who did, and this is exactly what they say. Imagine that, all of this going back to 1889!
@user-rz4wz4my1f 11 күн бұрын
Less crime and Homelessness
@user-rz4wz4my1f 11 күн бұрын
I am not old enough to
@captmack007 11 күн бұрын
It seems like yesterday. ❤
@timward3116 11 күн бұрын
I think I read something about Valley Bank being the only lender for certain organized crime ventures (involving Gus Greenbaum?) back in the day.
@BradHall 11 күн бұрын
@@timward3116 I wouldn’t be surprised, they would lend money to just about anyone, they even lent money to me to buy my house!
@timward3116 11 күн бұрын
@@BradHall Yeh, but I'm sure you look honest!
@timward3116 11 күн бұрын
I vaguely recall getting under the desks in early elementary school in Illinois. I tell you though, it would have been impossible to tell the air raid sirens from the tornado sirens from the mere tests of the system. Those sirens all were the same, and they were always going off in my town.
@Perich29 11 күн бұрын
2:55 thaks cool, some of downtown Phoenix looks like old Las Vegas.
@captmack007 12 күн бұрын
Motorcycles fault!
@davegeorge9538 12 күн бұрын
In the early 1980's I owned a 1936 Chevy master deluxe sedan, that I drove around Southern California while I was in the Marines, it wasn't fast, but it was a parade every day.
@captmack007 12 күн бұрын
Those cars took us through the malaise car era.
@ricinro 12 күн бұрын
I had classes at ASU and the Mill ave bridge was the only open crossing if the salt river. This meant waiting on Curry road for hours in the dark just to cross the river. That second bridge was also destroyed by rapid water flowing down the salt during its construction in '93?
@killboxalpha1990 12 күн бұрын
Start bringing em back alot of ppl need to be in there
@BradHall 12 күн бұрын
It's still there, at 24th Street and Van Buren, which is where it's been since 1889. The official name has changed, along with the buildings, and it's now called the State Hospital, and it continues to help people.
@markbell9973 11 күн бұрын
Yeah we had Mo Udall and Barry Goldwater who were best friends not mortal enemies. They did deals back then that brought back from D.C much opening of doors and other good things.
@moovyoaz 13 күн бұрын
You should do a video on Reg Manning, long time political cartoonist for the Arizona Republic.
@captmack007 13 күн бұрын
My dad as a child with his family would stop for the night at the original colonels!
@captmack007 13 күн бұрын
So true.
@captmack007 13 күн бұрын
1946 everyone could breathe easy. WWII was over.
@captmack007 13 күн бұрын
Good day.
@earleddings5166 13 күн бұрын
That is so sweet and very pretty .magnificent
@timward3116 14 күн бұрын
I didn't get a cell phone until 2007. Before that, I just always had some change in my pocket and, if I got a flat, I'd just have to walk to the nearest public phone - likely at a 7-11 or Circle K (sometimes a restaurant). I don't know how I did it. Now if I forget my phone at home when driving, I panic!
@kurtolson627 14 күн бұрын
Simple times , cool cars , good times , life was a bit slower , enjoy
@ejp75 14 күн бұрын
My 29 yr old daughter never learned what a pay phone or phone booth was in school. So having grown up in Brooklyn NY, I flew her and her mom from St Louis to New York City and I educated them. I remember 10¢ calls, the “operator” and NY Pizza when it was 15¢, 25¢, 50¢, 75¢ a slice. And I loved the Subway and the Staten Island Ferry.
@snippierbear8789 14 күн бұрын
Awesome video my guy
@tiffanyparke3707 14 күн бұрын
Theyre adorable ❤
@tiffanyparke3707 14 күн бұрын
Soumds absolutely luxurious
@BradHall 14 күн бұрын
From what I've read, it really was! I'm not quite old enough to remember the 1940s, but even flying in the 1980s was much nicer than it is nowadays
@tiffanyparke3707 14 күн бұрын
I appreciate your channel