Haboobs & Monsoons & Heat, Oh My!!!

[Riverkilt]

I did NW Phoenix from '73 to '01. Lived Christown, Metro, Moon Valley, Deer Valley areas. Remember when they built MetroCenter. I was a fan of Valle Luna up on 35th and Bell. Went to ASU night school in the basement of MetroCenter in the 80's. We were "Moon Devils." I sold DeVry their security system when they moved to the Dunlap Ave location and got my BA and MA from Ottawa Univ on Dunlap just east of I-17. Loved First Watch and Fajitas near there.

Worked 12 years at a Honeywell branch at 23rd and Peoria. Worked a couple years at a counseling center in that R&B business park at I-17 and Peoria.

My old stomping grounds. Used to bicycle the canals pathways to get around town, often faster than traffic.

Its a trip to poke around my old digs kilted now when I'm back down in Phoenix.

Used to know all the flood patterns on the streets in North Phoenix...how to sneak around on the high ground during the rains.

Oh, and don't forget Burrito Bandito up on 19th Ave and Union Hills...Hiking Shaw Butte to watch the hang gliders before they built the old folks homes on the landing field...

Ron

[macwilkin]

I did NW Phoenix from '73 to '01. Lived Christown, Metro, Moon Valley, Deer Valley areas. Remember when they built MetroCenter. I was a fan of Valle Luna up on 35th and Bell. Went to ASU night school in the basement of MetroCenter in the 80's. We were "Moon Devils." I sold DeVry their security system when they moved to the Dunlap Ave location and got my BA and MA from Ottawa Univ on Dunlap just east of I-17. Loved First Watch and Fajitas near there.

Worked 12 years at a Honeywell branch at 23rd and Peoria. Worked a couple years at a counseling center in that R&B business park at I-17 and Peoria.

My old stomping grounds. Used to bicycle the canals pathways to get around town, often faster than traffic.

Its a trip to poke around my old digs kilted now when I'm back down in Phoenix.

Used to know all the flood patterns on the streets in North Phoenix...how to sneak around on the high ground during the rains.

Oh, and don't forget Burrito Bandito up on 19th Ave and Union Hills...Hiking Shaw Butte to watch the hang gliders before they built the old folks homes on the landing field...

Ron

Since when did Metrocenter have a basement? Boy, you learn something new everyday, and there's mine! I had no idea there was a basement. (cue the clip from Pee Wee's Big Adventure -- "Does the Alamo have a basement?")

Ron, I remember Ottawa very well -- we would go past there on Dunlap all the time. And wasn't Honeywell right on Black Canyon between Cactus and Peoria? For some reason I seem to remember it being on the West side, but it's quite possible I'm wrong.

T.