Haboobs & Monsoons & Heat, Oh My!!!

**mudd** · 19th July 07, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

Do you remember Pancho's Mexican Buffet in north end of the Metrocenter loop? Or the Smittys on 35th & Peoria? Garcias?

I didn't know much about the area. I lived in East Mesa and had a 37 mile drive to get there.

I do, however, remember studying next to the ice rink at Metrocenter.

**macwilkin** · 19th July 07, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by mudd

I didn't know much about the area. I lived in East Mesa and had a 37 mile drive to get there.

I do, however, remember studying next to the ice rink at Metrocenter.

Yeah, we never went to Mesa/Tempe. We'd sometimes go to Glendale, and Scottsdale to go to Rawhide (which is now moved south of town, I hear). We'd also go over to Sunnyslope to visit my great-aunt who was in a nursing home next to John C. Lincoln Hospital.

We'd occasionally go to Papago Park for a Firebirds game, or down to South Mountain or Squaw (Piewesta) Peak -- that dates me right there!

Thanks to all the "zonies" for bringing back a lot of good memories -- I only hope I will make it back there someday.

T.

**Mr. MacDougall** · 19th July 07, 07:38 PM

I just realized I'd love to go to BigSurf today....

**macwilkin** · 19th July 07, 07:49 PM

I'd just be happy to go to Cortez Park down on 35th and Dunlap...that was a cool place.

T.

**Riverkilt** · 19th July 07, 10:32 PM

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

**Scratchy's Lass** · 19th July 07, 10:45 PM

it's doing it A.G.A.I.N!
YICK!

I hope it clears up by 2 or 3am or so..... that's around when I'm leaving to drive up to Flag, wknd Highland Games and such.

**macwilkin** · 20th July 07, 03:31 AM

Originally Posted by 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

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.

**Dirk Skene** · 20th July 07, 06:26 AM

Holy mackeral

I have never seen anything like that in person & hope I do not.

**Riverkilt** · 20th July 07, 08:02 AM

Aye Todd,

Down behind the movie theater and the ice rink there were sort of catacombs that were used for ASU classrooms back then.

I wandered most of MetroCenter's dark dank secret places a time or two bidding on their fire alarm monitoring...its big. Of course by now its been remodeled so many times I doubt the guys who built it could find there way around anymore.

The Honeywell division I worked for was a small one, not one of the big plants on the freeway. The building was razed and now a rental storage building sits on the land.

Ron

**macwilkin** · 20th July 07, 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Aye Todd,

Down behind the movie theater and the ice rink there were sort of catacombs that were used for ASU classrooms back then.

I wandered most of MetroCenter's dark dank secret places a time or two bidding on their fire alarm monitoring...its big. Of course by now its been remodeled so many times I doubt the guys who built it could find there way around anymore.

The Honeywell division I worked for was a small one, not one of the big plants on the freeway. The building was razed and now a rental storage building sits on the land.

Ron

OK then...that makes sense.

I sent this web site to Ron in a PM, but I'll post here as well:

http://www.gemland.com/index.htm

This is a great web site with a lot of brilliant pictures of the Valley. "My" mountain was North Mountain, as that was the one we could see from the back balcony of our apartment.

T.