Phoenix, Arizona in the 1990's and early 2000's. A Short History from my Video Collection

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I grew up in Tucson, Arizona, a short drive (at least it was back in the 90's 😅) from Phoenix and I have many quick clips from several of my trips to the Valley of the Sun.
Most of the time we would drive to Phoenix to see a sports event, such as the recently formed Diamondbacks baseball team, and the Cardinals football team. Other times we would visit Phoenix to travel to other parts of the country, as Phoenix was a major hub for many of the airlines at the time, such as America West Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and several other large names that didn't have a presence in Tucson.
Some of the 1990's footage that I've included in this video include:
Arizona Mills Mall, Tempe
Bank of America, now Mesa Financial Plaza, Mesa
Piestewa Peak, Phoenix
Bank One Ballpark, Now Chase Field, Phoenix
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe
The Thing, Mystery of the Desert, on I-10
Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch, Picacho
A dust storm, also referred as a haboob, reaching Chandler
Chandler lake communities
American West Airlines fleet, including Phoenix Suns livery
Southwest Airlines fleet, including their "Desert Gold" fleet
Some quick facts included in this video:
Arizona Mills Mall opened in 1997. The mall, and Rainforest Cafe, is still open
Piestewa Peak is the 2nd highest peak in the Phoenix Mountains, and is named after Lori Ann Piestewa, who served in the U.S. Army
Phoenix Sky Harbor is Arizona's busiest airport, and it's #8 in the United States as of 2021
The Cardinals played at ASU's Sun Devil Stadium until the opening of Cardinals Stadium in 2006
The Mesa Financial Plaza is Mesa's tallest building, at 224ft, and was built in 1985
Southwest Airlines had a "Desert Gold" color palette, until updating their colors in the early 2000's to their more modern blue and hearts color palettes.
Music by DjLeeJ, Felipe, and NCS Kontest
Shot mostly with Sony Handycam. Edited with Final Cut Pro
#phoenix #tempe #arizona #monsoon #history #vintage #1990s #1990 #2000s #2000 #skyharbor #airport #americawest #southwestairlines #dbacks #chasefield #mesa

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@sokithesoki 12 дней назад

A time when the skyline wasn't polluted by Rafi billboards

@michael85225 12 дней назад

Rafi must be making bank to advertise his face literally everywhere and even on the radio with that annoying jingle.

@Sproutt 11 дней назад

Rafi law group is the Worst learn from my Mistake. Your Welcome.

@felldoh9271 11 дней назад

lmao. and ‘Andrew The Home Buyer’

@user-jm6gm6kx4x 9 дней назад

Im dead af

@YOUTUBE_BOOMERnCHAN 9 дней назад

Call Rafi Rafi..... 😂 Laffy taffy

@madlad9822 12 дней назад

It is true- I remember when I was younger there were actual monsoon seasons. Now we get basically nothing.

@notafortnitegamer 10 дней назад

Now we just got unsustainable amounts of illegal immigrants 😢

@madlad9822 10 дней назад

@@notafortnitegamer Fax

@piroshk1968 10 дней назад

@@notafortnitegamer you're technically an illegal immigrant too if you were born here

@alejandrito8151 9 дней назад

Same here in another town in az monsoon doesnt even exist compared to as a child

@alejandrito8151 9 дней назад

@@notafortnitegamerarizona was mexicos son

@TravisG-lj9dz 11 дней назад

I'm 43 years old, born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and live in Gilbert. 90s in Phoenix was a good time. The house I grew up in and lived at for 16 years was right in the center of it all, on 24th Street and Osborn. I remember life was a lot easier in those days. Now everything in that area is expensive. The house I grew up in sold for 80k, now it's worth over 450k! And the house is in way worse shape than it was when I lived in it. My fondest memories of monsoons at that house was the power of those storms back in the 80s! I remember as a kid I would go out and swim in our big backyard pool, now it's just a dead lot filled in with dirt, and when a monsoon would come in, to see that wall of clouds, it was spectacular especially at sunset when the massive clouds would be dark purple/gray, and orange. One of my best past times during the summer was to drown wasps that landed in the pool for a drink by jumping in nearby, it pisses them off, but this got dangerous when a wasp crawled into my swim trunks and stung me, then i stopped it.

@johnkredit9072 10 дней назад

I'm a decade younger but I grew up in the same neighborhood, SW of those cross streets. It was a great spot, loved playing in the irrigation, didn't have a pool sadly. And dust storms were the best part of the summer

@charlesleerae9023 10 дней назад

Same age live here 24th Street and Roosevelt .Grew up in this area.

@peoplethesedaysberetarded 7 дней назад

Whoah. Bad areas, all of these. At least in 1988-1995, this was the ghetto.

@trynakillsu1 13 часов назад

I live on 28th st Osborn right now lol

@fernknowsbeststudios7964 12 дней назад

Dust storms, monsoon season in the late 90s/early 2000s were amazing, shame they don’t happen to be the same these days…

@michael85225 12 дней назад

Yes I was talking about this with my brother. Our monsoon started becoming almost nothing starting around 2018 and now it hardly rains during the monsoon season.

@fernknowsbeststudios7964 11 дней назад

@@michael85225 I left Arizona in the mid 2010s to do my undergrad in LA, and then permanently soon after, everytime I come back for the summer the storms are so underwhelming, there’s more rainfall in the desert during December nowadays!

@TikkiNikki 9 дней назад

@michael85225 yet people still deny climate change. Wild

@garethwillmott4234 9 дней назад

@@TikkiNikkiclimate change is 100% real, but it also significantly has to do with cloud seeding by surrounding states which Rob's moisture out of the clouds before they get to us

@santiinx737 8 дней назад

@@garethwillmott4234we have cloud seeding in Arizona too

@sergeantseven4240 Месяц назад

Born in 1989 in Glendale and raised in Phoenix. 1998-2000 was a good time for me as a child. I love videos like this that bring back some of the nostalgia. My dad passed away on the 9th and he raised me as a single father, he worked on the crew of electricians doing a majority of the work at Arizona Mills Mall.

@AlienFinger 12 дней назад

RIP your father.

@Specterno1 11 дней назад

Mills was the most amazing mall growing up

@thomasmann3560 11 дней назад

Dude I was born in 89. In Glendale. Small world. I actually went to independence high school. The 90s were amazing.

@sergeantseven4240 11 дней назад

@thomasmann3560 Graduated 2008 from Ironwood High School.

@christopherpoucher483 10 дней назад

Anyone go to desert garden elementary 96-97

@donchaput8278 12 дней назад

Back when you could actually read the signage around the airport and it wasn't all covered by other overpasses.

@caddylover10 6 дней назад

I was the Director of Restaurant services at the Rainforest Café, part of the opening hiring and training team. In the three years I was there we did 15 million dollars the first year, 13.5 the second and ended up mellowing out and averaged over 10 mill a yr. after that.

@jjmm-cx6ev 2 дня назад

@caddylover10 the food was dogshit but the scenery was 10/10

@Mr.T_az 7 дней назад

Man the bank of America building at night with the lights is so nostalgic, grew up down the street from there. Cant forget about fiesta mall too!

@victorious_vic 18 часов назад

As someone born in 96 in AZ and raised here all my life, I enjoy videos like this. I can only remember certain things from my youth. But I love watching these videos and reading the comments. It gives me a little visual to see what I missed or didn’t understand when I was growing up. Keep them coming if you have more!

@TiffanySL1989 22 дня назад

Born in Phoenix in 89 still living in Glendale I miss these days this place has changed so dang much.

@cr-cg7kn 12 дней назад

it happens so slowly we don’t realize it .. watching this clip making me feel old 😆

@thomasmann3560 11 дней назад

It's crazy to think, I am now 35. Seeing these videos makes me relive my child hood. I actually grew up in Glendale too. Went to independence hs

@anthonygonzales3172 6 дней назад

Same, I was born at Maryvale hospital in 91 and still live in Peoria. Left for a few years but came back home to the desert

@chicofromph33nix64 9 часов назад

Born in 84 at st Joseph's, raised on 27th Ave and indianschool and still here. Thought I would never leave this place, but it has gotten so bad & can't wait to move asap

@JarleyBox 11 дней назад

So nice to see a video like this. I feel like a unicorn sometimes when I'm the only person in the group to say, "I was born and raised here. " hope you can share more!

@jwell3336 2 дня назад

Having been born and raised here, I've witnessed significant changes in the valley. Now at 50, I recall the orange trees lining the center of I-17, dividing the freeway as if it were a wall. The I-10 didn't pass through Phoenix; it ended at 107th Avenue, and one had to navigate local streets to reconnect with the I-10 via I-17. My grandfather was part of the team that constructed the nuclear power plant. The monsoons used to be more intense, featuring grander light displays and brief rains that lasted 2-5 minutes each night, then vanished, leaving behind an incredible scent.

@timward3116 12 дней назад

One of the great things about Phoenix then, as now, is that its non-descript skyline becomes almost like a dreamy, sepia vision blurred by the filthy brown air. Almost like something from a Stephen King novel. It screams loudly, "We're here to stay, and we don't care WHAT you think!" Charmless, yes - but charmless in an almost surreal way.

@andrewt8116 Месяц назад

I remember the carpet and the weird textured concrete pillars of the first floor. That airport used to be ultimate liminal space

@PaulAngileri 11 дней назад

That 2-color brown carpet with the airplane shapes in it? That was always ugly.

@coreykelley9441 12 дней назад

I was 11 in Phoenix during these videos. This is such a throw back. Amazing

@joyfulhomemaker8053 11 дней назад

KZZP! Lol! Whoa! That just took me back

@Sb129 9 дней назад

I still call it Bank One Ballpark at times, it just sounds so much better, just like America West Arena. Those Chandler neighborhoods with the water are pretty much for retirees with lots of money. I helped my family flip houses post 2008 and we did one such house in an area like that, there was always some dude jet skiing every morning. I remember we lived on Pecos and Alma School around '99. On Az Ave and Pecos, there was a bar called the Pecos Lounge and south of that there was nothing, not even the 202. Now I think that building is a title loans place, Lol. We pretty much always lived in the East Valley (and a brief stint in Payson) and it is wild to see how much everything has grown My great aunt has lived in the same spot in Tempe since 1985 and she remembers when Tempe had fields all over, Imagine. This was also the time when 3TV was "The place with more stuff!" and I loved their "Good Morning Arizona" segment intro.

@brainchildguru 5 дней назад

I lived at Pecos and Alma school not too long ago. Currently a few miles east. It’s a great area.

@chicofromph33nix64 9 часов назад

I still call it BOB(Bank One Ballpark) and the America West Arena... I also still say Westridge Mall and Desert Sky Pavilion

@chicofromph33nix64 9 часов назад

BRAD PERRY!!! and Dan Davis... Good Morning.... GOOD MORNING ARIZONA🎵🎶

@richw2615 22 дня назад

I took my wife to the Rainforest Cafe on our first date in 2000. It was new and we had to wait in line even though we had a reservation. Took the kids there years later it was still pretty cool. Went again a few years ago. It was getting run down. The fish tanks which were awesome in the past were empty. Food was mediocre. Not very busy. I'm surprised it's still open. I was surprised you didn't mention America West Arena where the Suns played.

@dival9035 11 дней назад

born and raised here in phx, most of these videos are from right before i was born. i only got a tail end of the glory days but man the vibes were just different. hearing my own worst enemy playing on 104.7 is WILD

@micamadness4469 2 месяца назад

Great time capsule. I'm going to be turning 38 in a few days and I've lived in AZ for all those years. Never have lived in another state. Took weekly pictures of BOB being built for a while. Had season tickets for 1998 and 99 with my dad. Great times but boy has my state changed. Going to miss having a much smaller population and simpler times.

@Filmlove 2 месяца назад

The construction of BOB must have been quite a thing to see!

@amrehu88 9 дней назад

Phoenix during that time was such a vibe. I miss it.

@MeshugaMatch-m6q 12 дней назад

Nice. Very nostalgic. I lived in Tempe and Phx for several years between the late 80s through 2008. The Valley has changed drastically since I first lived in the area. I think some of the most interesting stories I've heard, and videos I've seen about Phx, are from the 70s. Apparently during monsoon season, I-17 would get flooded, especially at the underpass at Bell Road. Teenagers would jump from the overpass and play in the water. Kinda gross, too. 😂 I didn't grow up in Phoenix. I grew up in Lake Havasu City. 😒. Thank you for your condolences. LoL

@davidlerner23 18 часов назад

Brings me back to my youth

@Zer0Fall3n 4 дня назад

Aww man, makes me miss my childhood. Thanks for posting this 🙏

@MikeHarris1984 11 дней назад

I'm a 40 year old phoenix native.... born and raised.. a lot has changed... So odd seeing this old footage..

@herculejoestar5809 12 дней назад

Born and raised in phoenix also currently working at sky harbor (born in 93) seeing terminal 2 was wild both T1 and T2 are gone now

@kylekenney4758 8 дней назад

When recording who would have thought that what seemed like in random footage would be absolutely iconic footage 🔥.

@andyfields3248 22 дня назад

That isn't Camelback mountain, it's the McDowell Mountains with Tovrea Castle in the foreground. The Thing is a mummy, an actual very long dead human. What I remember most about it is the smell, it was strange. It is actually east of Benson, so the other side of Tucson from Phoenix. The John Wayne Ostrich farm is still there and quiet a lot larger than shown here.

@filthycasual9862 5 дней назад

Just past by that and The Lions Den on my way back from a work trip in Tucson. Never checked out The Thing but i kinda wanna pet an Ostrich haha!

@luciusboudae8072 11 дней назад

I had just moved to Phoenix in '99 and this brought back lots of memories! SR51 was not even done back then! It stopped at Northern. Also, back then Phoenix had a Techno/Dance station. Phoenix was awesome back then.

@Ashley-fj3hq 11 дней назад

You just unlocked like two memories for me 🤯

@lindseycassella3015 9 дней назад

That's crazy to think about the 51 ending at northern. I know that area well. I remember that dance music station then one day it changed to oldies music. If I'm not mistaken that was energy. KNRJ 101.1 and 92.7

@luciusboudae8072 9 дней назад

@@lindseycassella3015 YES!! That was the station!! Such a great station!!

@xcxangel9948 12 дней назад

This was amazing, and that 90s radio clip in the car at sky harbor 😂😂😂

@MomCat03 11 дней назад

I moved here in late 1978. We lived near Indian bend and Hayden before that huge shopping center was built just to the east past Pima road. Bell road & Scottsdale Road, (heading west on Bell) was a dirt road in parts. My mom wanted to buy some land around that area & I remember my dad telling her that nothing would really come of that area, so they didn’t invest…omg, I’d be a wealthy person today..Remember when Rawhide was off of Scottsdale Road, north past bell? I slowly watched the landscape change as we took every family member that visited from back east there. The carriage rides through the desert slowly, over time brought retail shops and gas stations that ruined the whole “out west” experience…the day they relocated Rawhide I swore I’d move…but now? Here I sit, raising my own family out west where it was really desolate…near around 75 th Ave. Legend City gone…going tubing at Saguaro Lake isn’t the same, nothing is…it’s crowded, polluted, people aren’t as friendly, except us older people who can relate to simpler times. I miss Los Arcos Mall…and to think I hated my parents for moving me here from back east, as I finally finished Catholic School and was about to go to public school where my siblings went, and I left behind my friends. It was so quite back then it drove me crazy…..and now? I’d do anything for it to be like it was then….how fast we learn to appreciate life and those simpler, quiet, more friendly, less polluted & crowded times when Metro Mall was the place to hit with your Xmas list and you could go shooting out in the desert just for fun, 15 mins from your house….❤🌵

@timriecken5453 6 дней назад

I live in Mesa, work in Chandler and grew up in scottsdale. This was a great watch 😊 I remember before the 101 was built, there were several overpasses built in the middle of the desert in anticipation of the highway on the reservation.

@holbol9468 12 дней назад

Lived in the east valley now for 40 years! Great videos brought back so many memories. I worked at Rainforest Café for one day right when it opened. The long lines of people waiting to get into the restaurant gave me massive anxiety, so I ran for the hills.😂😂

@Filmlove 12 дней назад

Awesome you’ve still been there for that time! All that anxiety that everyone must have experienced and they were probably paying like a “generous” $5.15/hour for all of that work 😂😅

@cr-cg7kn 12 дней назад

ha .. the valley has changed soo much ..

@TheAblist01 12 дней назад

I turned 11 on Aug 15th, 1999, and i remember that monsoon. It was my bday right before my 6th grade year started. We drove to AZ mills to get my ear (singular) pierced so i could look fresh for school, lol. Then we stopped and had dinner at gordon biersch on mill Ave and watched the storm.

@laurengirofilo4542 12 дней назад

It's interesting to see how Phoenix was back then. I didn't get a chance to experience Phoenix in the late 90's because I was born in 1999.

@Lisafrank6 6 дней назад

Great commentary and also fun to see PHX from 90s 🎉

@Filmlove 6 дней назад

Thanks, I always get nervous when I voiceover!

@queenschism1234 9 дней назад

i was a baby when this was filmed and never got to really experience any of this even though i am from here...only got to experience early 2000's from what i remember, kinda crazy!

@kingofthekarps3066 День назад

Grew up in Northern peoria back when there where orange tree field to the north (now its just infinitely more houses) its somehow become more of a monsoon seasonin winter and the early spring. My greatest memory from monsoons was when me and my friends went to a music concert and suddenly it started raining so hard the streets were flooding in less then an hour.

@MotoChurro 10 дней назад

I lived in Phoenix for college in 98-99. I loved waking up Saturday mornings and just driving around Phoenix and Scottsdale. And yes, Arizona Mills mall was awesome!

@nauxjuan 12 дней назад

Came to PHX in 2012 and all my sons are born here. Videos like this are always interesting for someone not originally from southern AZ

@brucewayne-ej3cx 10 дней назад

The Arby's fish sandwich comes and goes getting updated every few years. Last one was decent

@nicholassmith8212 3 дня назад

Bro I grew up here going to fiesta mall and AZ mills. My mom worked for America west airlines too. Such nostalgia watching this

@felldoh9271 11 дней назад

Thank you very much for posting this. I was born in ‘88 and grew up in Chandler. The 90s and early to mid 2000s was the best time in human history (at least for western civilization). One summer (I forgot which year, maybe it was ‘95) a storm was so bad that the winds threw our riding lawn mower across our yard and uprooted two huge tamarack trees. We lived on a horse ranch type area with dirt roads in the neighborhood. There were cotton fields surrounding most of our property so we think it may have been a small tornado that uprooted the first huge tree, hopped across our backyard, and then landed right on the other huge tree that it also uprooted.

@Chevelle602 7 дней назад

I was born in 88 and remember that storm well. Our metal shed literally just blew away and our old brick wall fell over. It was like a tornado came through the valley.

@brainchildguru 5 дней назад

It’s so weird, it’s like 95% of commenters were born in ‘88. Including yours truly.

@theconfusedmexican704 6 дней назад

I miss all the fields on power road and as of a month ago the last one got turned into a warehouse complex. There were a ton more fields all around the city 10 years ago but now they are gone

@briguy9428 8 дней назад

Born and raised in Phoenix, the starkest change I would say is the downtown area. It's been built up a ton, lots of residential towers, none of that used to exist. Also a ton of art and food culture in the area. IMO, the light rail really brought a lot of life to the inner part of the city.

@captainbeatdown6254 12 дней назад

I was born in 1999 on august, my family said I was born on the biggest monsoon storm of that year and its so cool on these videos to see the storms leading up to my birth on this video! im glad got people like you archiving footage and posting them on the internet

@Filmlove 12 дней назад

Thanks for watching! Yeah I remember the late 90’s seemed to be the biggest years for monsoons I remembered, at least in the parts of Tucson that I lived in

@producerdave4252 10 дней назад

That's cool

@Ajidam 5 дней назад

I was there. I remember mill ave in Tempe was renamed to millennium ave for the year 2000. Also on October 22, 1999 I had a huge UFO encounter in the Superstition Mountains near canyon lake. 10 saucers and two octagon shaped ships. A giant humanoid was on board the octagon and he was 20 feet tall. The rest of the crafts in the fleet contained grey type aliens. True story.

@NitroGummyBear День назад

Had me there in the first half, chief….

@JAMESWUERTELE 10 дней назад

I had just moved there in Aug 1999 for a year. Way cool

@DoctorMotorcycle 7 дней назад

I grew up in Glendale around 67th avenue and Cactus, which in the 90's and 00's was a relatively new develpoment, and similar to what the happy valley area is today. I remember when the Cactus to 101 onramp wasn't even there, lol. You either had to go to Grand or Thunderbird. Anyways, I distinctly remember one specific monsoon during the early 00's that it rained so hard and for so long that our street was completely flooded and there were underpasses that flooded up to the freeway. We were floating around on rafts in the street, it was wild. It hasn't rained like that in Phoenix in 20 years at least.

@filthycasual9862 5 дней назад

I remember that monsoon! I was just a kid but man was it going so hard that night. The thunder, the rumbling, the window shaking, the shadows from the trees sway back and forth with the street lamps. And it was just like you said after, just flooded up and down everywhere! I was at 67th and Peoria!

@brainchildguru 5 дней назад

We had record rain around 2014 when we had the 100-year storm. It was absolutely insane. Retention basins were completely full, people riding jet skis in them.

@e4lee0311 4 дня назад

I remember the Red Line bus route was basically replaced by the Lightrail, The 101 Pima/Price Freeway was constructed from at Raintree and Chandler Blvd. The Salt River finally became Tempe Town Lake and Van Buren was a “good time.”

@e4lee0311 4 дня назад

Forgot to mention 98.3 was Power 92.3, KDKB was 93.3, 101.5 was the Zone, KSLX KUPD and KISS FM are still the same, 106.3/100.3 The Edge took over 103.9 The Party. No smart phones, iPods or mp3 players, only Music Warehouse.

@raspberrian 28 дней назад

Thank you for sharing this. I am from Tucson. I looked forward to going to Phoenix growing up.

@alexbustos7051 Час назад

I remember that main entrances to AZ Mills would play a welcome message in many different languages.

@trajanfidelis1532 11 дней назад

Thanks for the good memories

@RedBlackFilms 10 дней назад

@3:07 - Those are The Islands. Drive past them all the time. During Christmas, the residents decorate the back of their houses and float around on boats to look at them. Quite spectacular.

@tanquavious 6 дней назад

this is really interesting because this is what phx looked like back when my dad first moved here to go to asu.

@N0WisH3R3AZ 6 дней назад

I grew up in Glendale , in 28 years I myself have seen everything change .

@koreyb Месяц назад

Ah the smell of creosote right after a rain!

@rmp5s 12 дней назад

Is THAT what that smell is?...

@koreyb 12 дней назад

@@rmp5s it depends, if there are creosote bushes near you when it rains, then that is probably what you are smelling. It is intense.

@rmp5s 12 дней назад

@@koreyb I'll have to look into that...I thought creoste was a brand of paint or something. 🤣

@koreyb 12 дней назад

@@rmp5s Quote: "Creosote Bush is commonly named as such because this plant's heavy resinous scent and tacky demeanor has been compared to the smell of creosote found in stove pipes. It doesn't really smell like black soot at all to me, but does indeed have a sweet and musty smell that especially fills the air after rainstorms when it opens it stomata and on cool mornings in the desert where it grows. This plant is also sometimes called Chaparral, possibly because of its scrubby and tangled appearance"

@rmp5s 12 дней назад

@@koreyb Very interesting...thanks!

@cr-cg7kn 12 дней назад

i do hvac here in the valley..while i’m dying from the heat i often times wonder who came over those mountains (from the north) took a look at the desert down below , dry as a bone , and decided 🤔 “yep, this is the place we’re building a city”

@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 12 дней назад

Ayyyy another 90’s Lee from AZ! I still got my Opening day ball from BOB

@producerdave4252 10 дней назад

The Thing was a roadside attraction. It cost a dollar and you walked through it next to a gas station. It had some artifacts along with some "oddities" and "sideshow" like objects and pitcures. The big reveal was a "preserved" human body in a glass case. Which was at best a D-movie prop. But it only cost a dollar and if you were a kid, you definitly got a freaked out a bit by the mummy.

@BroadwayfanRich 11 дней назад

Tucson native here!! It was such a treat to go to Phoenix!!!

@TheBadAssNinjaDude 11 дней назад

Phoenix native here. i'll chime in as I watch. it's pronounced pie-ess tu-wah peak. allot of those open water areas were either water treatment centers, or irrigation reservoirs, which were, cool history, build OVER the canals originally built by the native indigenous people, the Pueblo. I love driving through Sky harbor. also think it's the coolest airport name. yeah, very diverse wildlife that wants to kill you. we're little australia! those dust storms can be EPIC. they are very much like the mummy, just a moving WALL of dust. Traffic is still an issue. our traffic hour is from about 3-7:30.

@johnwayne666 5 дней назад

So cool...😎🤙🏻

@pinball541 12 дней назад

I used to fly AWA all the time before the US Air merger. I still remember the old America West commercials, especially the one that collaborated AWA & Bashas' partership. Eddie Basha stood on the wing of the plane. We still had stores like Smith's, Smitty's, Fry's Electronics and others. Arizona Mills was ok, I temember "Just For Feet" at the mall where the 10th pair was free. Just For Feet also had a basketball half court in the store. I always prefered Fiesta Mall myself. I lived in Payson during that time. I remember the trips down the hill to go shopping, we always brought the ice chest for the Costco trips!

@michael85225 12 дней назад

The good old days when the Phoenix area was affordable and a nice place to live. I was born in 1990 and grew up in Chandler and my dad was the sole provider for a family of 6 and we were able to live comfortably. Don't get me wrong, I still like it here but it has grown so much and housing is becoming a huge issue and put the high prices into the mix.

@Moon___man 11 дней назад

Wow so cool thanks for sharing. This was right when my family moved here, back when I was just 3 years old. Definitely remember the monsoons being a bigger deal. Barely even rained this year. Nowadays it seems like we just get the humidity without any major storms :(

@LuisMiranda86 9 дней назад

Do more please I was born and raised in Mesa, I love seeing all these tapes it reminds me of my childhood 😎

@bloonmaster123 6 дней назад

Reason we don't have monsoons anymore is because there's a heat bubble in the valley. All the concrete and asphault heats up the whole valley to the point clouds cant even pass through most the time

@jameswest7945 9 дней назад

Good narration

@azrailfan2717 11 дней назад

11:49 Bank of America building in mesa on Alma school and southern. I remember that building growing up in mesa around the time the footage was made. BofA sold the building in 2010 and has changed ownership since

@mvsgeek 11 дней назад

I believe that it was the Western Savings Building in the late 80s.

@_ARIZONA_MAN 7 дней назад

I moved to Phoenix in July 2001. Still not a fan of the heat but I’ll probably never leave. I love it here.

@jameswest7945 9 дней назад

We had record snow last winter it was nice

@Sabotage_Labs Месяц назад

0:21 Damn...I miss America West!!! I started traveling for business, like 40 weeks a year, just before the US Airways merger. So wished they kept the America West naming but, they weren't just an upstart airline anymore. Hated that merger. You could walk up to any AWA counter in any airport to check in and say...Hi...and be greeted with a big smile and hello...always thanking you for flying with them. Great flight crews.... especially the Vegas flights lol. After merge, I was checking in at the counter in Philly (originally from that area), said..Hi...to the woman and I'm counter and before I could saying something else she just said m....WHAT? Yea, wasn't use to that lol. Apparently, US Airways had a lot of wage cuts and union issues. Layoffs. The employees took it pretty hard for a few years. Yes, I was in Philly but....come on. They aren't that bad lol. It was great having a hometown (Phoenix for 45 years now) airline with so many direct flights. Every smaller city after the merge...had to go through Charlotte or Philly. I've been in the Charlotte airport second most...after Phoenix lol. Miss AWA!

@tianagray 10 дней назад

Thanks for sharing. I grew up in mesa and graduated in 2002!

@michaelwhite3009 11 дней назад

Great vid! I’m glad you took the time back in the day to get all the footage!

@Perich29 5 дней назад

I was living in Fresno CA at that time, way before we moved there.

@jameswest7945 9 дней назад

I live a couple miles from Mills It’s a ghost town these days. El pollo loco is still good

@coyotelong4349 12 дней назад

Awesome footage, man! I’m 30 years old now so I think we’re about the same age give or take. Born and raised in Mesa All the footage of Sky Harbor in 1999 was great and brought back so many memories. My dad has worked there for Southwest (and still does!) so PHX has always been a big part of my life And by the way, it’s pronounced “PIE-ess-chew-uh” Peak! 😊 Lori Ann Piestewa was Hopi

@TikkiNikki 9 дней назад

The wholenvibe of phoenix was indescribable. I made friends with so many fellow punks from phienix shows and random parties/hang outs. Never had a fear of getting shot or mugged

@Newshustle 7 дней назад

what do you think of phx now? still safe?

@nicholasshugrue4229 6 дней назад

Bro just described my childhood.

@MomCat03 11 дней назад

Sorry…last thing. (Maybe lol) Anyone remember Scottsdale Rd getting washed out down near McKellips? It was a virtual river running across Scott’s. Rd…what a site to see…I’m so sorry folks, but reminiscing about the early 80’s, things were so different, it makes me happy & sad at the same time. We need a retro AZ group that can get together and talk about those good ol days and visit some spots that may still be untouched by time…if any!

@chicofromph33nix64 9 часов назад

@ 9:20 I'm sure that ground squirrel is no longer with us... RIP GROUND SQUIRREL

@Sproutt 11 дней назад

Rain Forest Cafe!!!

@X56th_SFS День назад

Rocking l.a.gears!

@RJSchex 12 дней назад

My opinion: Arizona Mills Mall "jumped the shark" in 2009, due to the closure of Virgin Megastore.

@cr-cg7kn 12 дней назад

moved here in 1996…. cannot believe it’s been that many years ago ..

@Morgan_le_they 10 дней назад

This was a fun flashback to my high school years. And yes, anyone from outside the state, please don’t go hiking here in the summer!

@Gnosis314 11 дней назад

I actually moved to phoenix in the year 2000 ❤

@whatname93 12 дней назад

Had great memories with my dad on bring your kid to work day at Southwest Airlines before 9/11

@relaxxdfittactical 10 дней назад

Ahhh. I lived on 15ave and Glendale going to high school down town. Man I miss those days.

@MasterMayhem78 12 дней назад

Sleep during the day, work and play at night. Unfortunately it’s much less safe to go out at night now.

@danieldaniels7571 12 дней назад

I’ve been in Phoenix since 1972. Squaw Peak will always be Squaw Peak to me.

@Xosidhe 9 дней назад

It’s a derogatory term equivalent to “cunt.” Piestewa is the surname of the first Native American woman to die in combat in the US military. It’s good to correct bad history.

@Yungbillyboy 10 дней назад

Love this! Born in 98 so this is very interesting

@kinnertubbyson Месяц назад

Opening shot: my 14th birthday. Phx is a little rougher than normal, but it's still a great city.

@TheAblist01 12 дней назад

It was my 11th bday. Happy belated fellow millennial

@kinnertubbyson 11 дней назад

@@TheAblist01 Happy Belated, Dudeson!!!

@christopherpoucher483 10 дней назад

Born 89 been living between tucson and phoenix during the 90s to mid 2000s fun times

@joyfulhomemaker8053 11 дней назад

I miss old down town Tempe! You could walk up A Mountain and actually have a view

@christinaduarte3941 11 дней назад

Cool memories.

@stacya4713 11 дней назад

The Good Old Days 😢

@joyfulhomemaker8053 11 дней назад

I’ve been to the ostrich place. I went a little over a year ago and it is a fun time w the family

@aXentOG 12 дней назад

3:05 These neighborhood designs have been proven to make the heat dissipation WORSE so you're spot on, and it's not even a thing that had to do with the lack of water

@Filmlove 12 дней назад

Interesting, I had no idea that design actually made things worse 😂, but I know that it’s always impossible to find a place to park with shade because nothing seems to get planted close to the sidewalk anymore these days