A TWA promotional film about Arizona in the 1970s. To purchase a DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivesfarms.com. To license footage from this film visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
I was born and raised in Phoenix. I was born in the old St. Joseph’s hospital in 1946. You can’t imagine the changes since my early childhood! We lived on about 12th St. and Camelback in the late 40’s and early 50’s and that was considered the country not the city! Lol,
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.
In the early 70's TWA's flights out of Phoenix Sky Harbor were mostly Convair 880's to St Louis. You could hear and see the exhaust from where we lived in Mesa.
Yeah the Phoenix and Arizona i remember in the Spring 1973 was very nice and much better than the one with the Mass Concrete Freeways and much less Cactus i saw in late October 1996
The freeways were outdated in the 70s basically only 2 freeways I17 flowing down to the 10 and east and west there was not much you should see it now during rush hour.
Much different now from what i heard than the last time i was in Arizona back in 1979. Use to drive with my Family from Niagara Falls to see my Relatives living in Phoenix for Spring Vacation almost every year from 1961 to 1979 stayed there for 3 weeks.
Is it just me or did everyone have that same kind of tone of voice/accent in that time period? x'D be it west or east coast, they all sound the same idk why lol
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.
Now too many stinking Interstate Freeways being built in the State are ruining it a lot. The City Phoenix and Arizona i remember Early Spring 1973 when vacationing staying in Phoenix Motels and visiting my Aunt, Uncle and Cousins who lived there was much different much better in my personal humble opinion than the next time in late October 1996.
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!
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.
Does anyone remember the name of the outdoor concert venue in the 70s? It had stadium seating and I went to alot of concerts out there but I can't remember the name!!
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".
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.
I was born and raised in Flagstaff, so was my family. The town grew steadily over the years, Too bad they didn't talk about Flagstaff it has a lot of history!
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 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.
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
You have JohnTravolta practicing his dancing for Urban Cowboy at 5.10, John Lennon accompanying the fiddle player at 5.23, And Mark Spitz the winner of 7 gold medals in the 72 Olympics at 7.33.
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.
7:52 Breaks my heart to see Big Surf. Its nothing more than a flat dirt lot. Another vicitm of Covid. So many great times there. Learned to surf there before taking those skills to the beaches of socal. Tragic loss for the valley. Oceanside ice rink is gone as well. For s beat up old hockey player, losing a sheet of ice in a metro area with so few is another heartbreak.
The increase in the total number of flights just might have something to do with this. In 2011, Stephen Breyer noted, "the number of [American] air passengers increas[ed] from 207.5 million in 1974 to 721.1 million last year."
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..
