Longhair1957
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Curious, how many are born and raised Arizonan.
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oldslurrydog1
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Born and raised in Phx. :dance:
Sure has change here.
Sure has change here.
Longhair1957
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I’ve watched the dramatic change for the last 65 years. And it sucks.
Suck My Glock
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Those who have fled here from libtard strongholds and think this place is conservative have no clue how nice it was before. Geez, it wasn't that long ago when TOTAL sales tax (county, state, local) was still barely over 3%. I remember getting dragged around to look at homes with Mom and Dad in the late 70s and your average 4 bedroom house was in the $30,000 - $40,000 range. I was SHOCKED when my best friend's family paid over $100,000 for their new house in 1984. Granted, it was big and had a pool, but Jesus Christ!!
Solar_Empire
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Born and raised here. I'm only in my 30s but the transformation has been shocking. It will only get worse the more blue state residents flow in. The dam broke and we're on the verge of drowning, but I guess the same can be said for other states like us...
Moved here in 78, joined in-laws that homesteaded here in 1924, others that moved here in the 60s, then early 70s
The ranch is still there in New River but only the West side of I17, they sold the East side off when the freeway came through. Sun Up ranch, New River.
It has changed a lot.
The ranch is still there in New River but only the West side of I17, they sold the East side off when the freeway came through. Sun Up ranch, New River.
It has changed a lot.
I was born here in 83'. Both my parents were born in CA, but met here in AZ at NAU. I remember no 101, no 202, US 60 stopped at Power Rd. Every place I grew up dove hunting is now a cookie cutter home community. I remember monsoons before the heat island affect ruined them. Fiesta Mall was the only big place to shop for a long time...and Tri City Mall wasn't a barrio shit hole area.
QuietM4 said:
You and I share a lot of the same memories. I grew up out in Mesa, and those monsoons used to be intense. I totally forgot about Tri City Mall, but I used to ride my bike down there when I was a kid to go to the theater and play arcade games. Good times.
Born in Sonora, family emigrated here in '69 when I was 10, been here since, downtown Tucson was the place to go, El Con was too far east, or so we thought.
I remember driving to Phoenix and we'd go miles without seeing another vehicle.
I remember driving to Phoenix and we'd go miles without seeing another vehicle.
AZ_Five56 said:
I lived in North Mesa through high school…3 different homes within 1.5 miles of each other. Watched plenty of movies at Tri City. Went to the Aladdin’s Arcade at Fiesta Mall whenever it was time to shop for back to school clothes.
The thing that strikes me the most about then and now is the weather patterns. Winter was frosted roofs and always being able to see my breath as I walked to school. Summer was hot for sure, but at least the monsoon was a few weeks of afternoon rain, like clockwork. That doesn’t seem to happen any longer.
Oh, and dumb people stuck in ragging rapids while trying to drive across a wash. I guess some things don’t change…
Suck My Glock
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I grew up on the west side.
If you would have told me back in the early 80's that the growth would eventually go so far as to threaten to link up with Black Canyon City and Wickenburg, I would have called you insane.
I remember when Prescott Valley was a small trailer park alternative to Prescott proper and was separated by miles of nothing, and now it's bigger and grander than Prescott itself.
I think the year I started high school (1982) was probably the last year you'd commonly see rifles in the rifle racks of pick-ups in the student parking lot, and it was normal.
If you would have told me back in the early 80's that the growth would eventually go so far as to threaten to link up with Black Canyon City and Wickenburg, I would have called you insane.
I remember when Prescott Valley was a small trailer park alternative to Prescott proper and was separated by miles of nothing, and now it's bigger and grander than Prescott itself.
I think the year I started high school (1982) was probably the last year you'd commonly see rifles in the rifle racks of pick-ups in the student parking lot, and it was normal.
a long walk down memory lane, only makes one frustrated at the stupidity of the growth, Who'd though harquahala valley would become the biggest organic farm community in Az. When we had the wells drilled back in the mid 60s it was for a pistachio ranch, last time i dropped pumps was in 83 has to drop them a hundred feet for what we thought was potable water, heard a decade ago or so, that they went another hundred, even with the cap supplying a lot of water in area, table is dropping fast.
the dairy farm at bethany and 19th ave, now a shopping center, metro a boon for maybe a decade or so before it became a shitehole.
Park central mall, remember when it was touted as the first air conditioned shopping joint, yeah, changes can or were good
and the changes in phoenix, outdoor venues are basically gone, legend city, comptom, ect. what were nice communities have turned into shiteholes due to ...............
and the uncontrolled growth is gobbling up the farm land, who can blame the land owners not to sell with the prices they'd be getting, besides farming has become a job, and no one wants a job.
orange groves gone, the sweet smell of nectar from orange trees in valley were nice, now only only smog.
makes one wanna pull a wallace and ladmo bag over your head and breath in the past
yep, progress.
Rj
the dairy farm at bethany and 19th ave, now a shopping center, metro a boon for maybe a decade or so before it became a shitehole.
Park central mall, remember when it was touted as the first air conditioned shopping joint, yeah, changes can or were good
and the changes in phoenix, outdoor venues are basically gone, legend city, comptom, ect. what were nice communities have turned into shiteholes due to ...............
and the uncontrolled growth is gobbling up the farm land, who can blame the land owners not to sell with the prices they'd be getting, besides farming has become a job, and no one wants a job.
orange groves gone, the sweet smell of nectar from orange trees in valley were nice, now only only smog.
makes one wanna pull a wallace and ladmo bag over your head and breath in the past
yep, progress.
Rj
Born and raised here. As was my dad.
Longhair1957
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I remember all these things.
I was born in mesa.
Dad was born in Lehi 1929
Grandpa born Lehi 1897
Great grandpa came here 1878
We used to get the freeze in the mornings during winter. Running and sliding on the frost covered grass. Riding my motorcycles, through the orchards in the morning on the way to work and freezing, and even hit a couple pheasants in my time.
I remember before trinity mall was built.
No freeways accept I-17 and the I-10 only came as far as buckeye to the west and we had to drive all the way south thru chandler to get to the I10 east to Tucson. It was an all day trip to get across the valley
Ah the monsoons. Absolutely was going to rain after the dust storm.
But, as the valley grew, the asphalt heat increase evening and night heat. Water is all drying up. But yet they keep building houses. People keep moving here. I wonder how many of these transplants know that the valley will be out of water in ten years.
This poll shows the problem. Even gun forums, more out of staters than locals. Folks come from CA, OR, WA and then want to change everything to how there states were, that failed.
I was born in mesa.
Dad was born in Lehi 1929
Grandpa born Lehi 1897
Great grandpa came here 1878
We used to get the freeze in the mornings during winter. Running and sliding on the frost covered grass. Riding my motorcycles, through the orchards in the morning on the way to work and freezing, and even hit a couple pheasants in my time.
I remember before trinity mall was built.
No freeways accept I-17 and the I-10 only came as far as buckeye to the west and we had to drive all the way south thru chandler to get to the I10 east to Tucson. It was an all day trip to get across the valley
Ah the monsoons. Absolutely was going to rain after the dust storm.
But, as the valley grew, the asphalt heat increase evening and night heat. Water is all drying up. But yet they keep building houses. People keep moving here. I wonder how many of these transplants know that the valley will be out of water in ten years.
This poll shows the problem. Even gun forums, more out of staters than locals. Folks come from CA, OR, WA and then want to change everything to how there states were, that failed.
kenpoprofessor
Member
Longhair1957 said:
I'm a Texan, born in '62, and part of my life growing up on the East Coast of Texas in LaMarque, Texas City, Galveston. I even have a certificate stating I am a citizen of the Republic of Texas from my birth in Galveston County.
From age 11, shit went sideways during the "integration" period, and the school kids on one side of town were bussed in to the other side of town, for no reason whatsoever, other than, well..... We lived there, my school was across the street from the house I lived in. Well, trouble started soon after, and in '73 my mom had had enough and got us outta there. We moved to a lot my grandfather owned, kitty corner to his brother who lived there. Melvin TX, pop. 280, no school, population dwindled so much they closed it and it became our place to play during my teen years. Freedom, damn near absolute freedom, I tasted it, lived it, loved it.
Military put me in Kalifornistan, I dreaded the thought when I saw those orders after turning down a Top Secret assignment at Nellis. Got there in '86 and it wasn't horrible then, so, I stuck around. Stayed around even after wanting to leave so bad because my wife's parents lived in Long Beach. Well, I finally had enough of both wife and Kali in 2007, so here I am, living the freedom I lived in TX many years ago, and I smile everyday because I made that choice.
Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day
Clyde
THE ICEMAN
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I consider myself an Arizona Native even though I was born in Cali.
My Dad saw the light & moved us to Az when I was just six weeks old. My first memories were of living in Maryvale when I was three years old or so. We moved to Prescott when my dad got a job as Assistant Manager at First National Bank of Arizona. Prescott Valley was just one or two streets of homes.
Moved to Tempe after my dad landed a Manager position at First National & we bought a new 3 bedroom house at basically Rural & Southern for about $22,000. Southern Ave was still a two lane concrete road & everything below Baseline was farmland. The Superstition Freeway didn't exist. I went to Rural Elementary as a kid. That school is now a grocery store.
Last time I checked Zillow that same home was valued at over $660,000... Nuts... :shock:
My Dad saw the light & moved us to Az when I was just six weeks old. My first memories were of living in Maryvale when I was three years old or so. We moved to Prescott when my dad got a job as Assistant Manager at First National Bank of Arizona. Prescott Valley was just one or two streets of homes.
Moved to Tempe after my dad landed a Manager position at First National & we bought a new 3 bedroom house at basically Rural & Southern for about $22,000. Southern Ave was still a two lane concrete road & everything below Baseline was farmland. The Superstition Freeway didn't exist. I went to Rural Elementary as a kid. That school is now a grocery store.
Last time I checked Zillow that same home was valued at over $660,000... Nuts... :shock:
Been here 40+ years.
Can’t really say many of the changes I’ve seen in that time are for the better.
Can’t really say many of the changes I’ve seen in that time are for the better.
Born In Utah, Parents moved to Baltimore MD in 1970 for my fathers job. I left home at 16 and came here in 81 and never left. Been here longer than any other place so i call it home. My wife was a navy brat but moved here in 74 after her dad retired. I have seen a lot of change as well, most of it not good. We paid 62K for our first house in 1986 in a nice hood in chandler. Id hate to be a young couple today that needs double that just for the down payment on a starter home.
Born in East Mesa in 78. I live 2 minutes from the home I grew up in. Power and Mckellips. Just like others here have said lots of changes. I wish my kids could have the experiences I grew up having in the 80's and 90's. It was fun! Go carts and 3 wheelers with a .22 rifle in the desert.
Landon
Landon
oldslurrydog1
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Lotta truth here what he says.knockonit said:
The organdgrinder and his monkey at Christown Mall. Miracle Mile Deli, frigging awesome horseradish.
Legend City ( Compton Terrace ) we would go see the Phx Giants and sneak through a hole in the fence into the park.
The Phx Wax Museum right down the street on Van Buren.
Cruising Central Ave. Really good times.
Wallice and Ladmo. I came home from work to watch thier last show on TV.
The orange groves were everywhere. Arrowhead area was full of them.
Used to see the mountains to the south from bell road. 67th Ave and Bell, sign said "Smittys coming soon" for years.
The Carnation plant at 19th and Bethany, was working at the company that demoed it and turned it into a parking lot.
