Posted: 2/2/2012 3:45:08 PM EDT
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We have a growing up in Phoenix with Ladmo thread how about a Tucson thread.
Frank Kalil KTKT radio in the mid and late 50's. That station was the station we listened to as we cruised Speedway. Johnny's Drive in on Speedway, cherry 7 up and chocolate cokes. The Midway drive in. Craycroft was the edge of town. The Spanish Trail was the way to the tiny town of Vail. (3 or so people) Shooting in the desert was a 5 minute drive. On the DIRT Pontatoc Road we got on a hill that had an old stone house and used it to shoot our .22's at Saguaro's (sorry). We did drag races on river Road. The end of Campbell was the make out spot. No houses up there. No U A hospital, instead Quonset huts for married Vets. The Paramount and Fox had double features every weekend. If a senior in H S bragged about 'nailing a senior girl the frosh boys would try to take sneak looks at her to see if she walked 'different'. |
| I remember all that except I listened to KHOS and KCUB. I also worked at Johnies at 22nd &Alvernon for a year while in Jr. High. Cruised Speedway in my old '51 Chevy P/U from Wilmot to Tucson Blvd. South near where the Wilmot prison is now was a make out spot. Hunted deer above Pontatoc. Remember when the Tucson Trap & Skeet Club was at 22nd & Pantano and the only real rifle range was in Tucson Mountain Park? Sandario Rd. was dirt from Avra Valley Rd. to Ajo Hwy. |
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There is/was a yahoo page called 'vanishing Tucson', lots of great pics and discussion, not sure of it's still active.
ETA: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanishingtucson/ |
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I remember all that except I listened to KHOS and KCUB. I also worked at Johnies at 22nd &Alvernon for a year while in Jr. High. Cruised Speedway in my old '51 Chevy P/U from Wilmot to Tucson Blvd. South near where the Wilmot prison is now was a make out spot. Hunted deer above Pontatoc. Remember when the Tucson Trap & Skeet Club was at 22nd & Pantano and the only real rifle range was in Tucson Mountain Park? Sandario Rd. was dirt from Avra Valley Rd. to Ajo Hwy. The Trap & Skeet club was still operating when my family moved here - we got a house about a mile or less from the club. I remember me and hte other neighbor kids going out there and collecting clay pigeons, and getting chased away by the staff. It sat abandoned for several years before a developer came and plowed it all under - the bunkers for the clay machines were always filled with water once the place was abandoned. I spent many a summer in that desert area playing with my friends. |
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Applebee's Electronics, just a couple doors down from the original Gordo's Restaurant at Broadway & Rosemont. They beat hell out of anything Radio Shack carried. Pancho's Mexican Restaurant on 22nd near Alvernon in the Del Ray Center Across from what is now Target I think. The old Globe Dept. store across from what is now Williams Center on Broadway. They made the best donuts there. Hoot Gibson at Motorsports on Speedway. The original Randolph Park zoo, a chain-link enclosure with a peacock and a few other birds next to a walled prairie dog town. the original kite flying hill there was at lest three times taller too.
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palo verde was the farthest high school on the east side KTKT would play the newest top 40 song after the hourly and half-hourly breaks (besides frank kalil, does anyone remember dj's jerry stowe and ray "windy lindy" lindstrom?) saveco department store U2's flying over davis-monthan AFB "boondockers" out in the desert pachucos on the south side the three outlaw biker clubs - sons of odin, iron horsemen and the soul sinners ditching school to go to sabino canyon for a swim, also senior ditch day(a seperate event) cop cars that looked like a cheese sandwich with a cherry on top "mother higgins" juvie hall seeing charles schmid aka "the pied piper of tucson" hanging out at the diamond pins bowling alley man, just by looking at him you knew he was WRONG  !!!
my favorite - frankie's pizza palace on speedway 
early KWFM radio, loved it when they would play whole sides of "firesign theater" |
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seeing charles schmid aka "the pied piper of tucson" hanging out at the diamond pins bowling alley
man, just by looking at him you knew he was WRONG !!! He was a regular at Johnnies also. A very odd bird he was wearing red lip stick,and that funny walk of his. Shakies pizza, Lucky Wish-Bone off of Swan, Sandies, The Flamingo,The Barons when it was out in the sticks. Jestor's Court, The Bee Hive at Dorado Estates I remember when Game and Fish officer killed a moutain Lion with his pistol at Speedway and Kolb. Yep "Mother Higgin's" They also had the county incenerator there,and they would openly dispose of siezed marijuana fro TPD and the Sherrifs . Certain youth groups were alledged to gather down wind.. Meyersons dept store with the downstairs, AMA Dept Store, Globe Dept Store.<- Bought a baby aligator from their pet store. Army Navt Store on S.6th and 22nd. Titty City on 5th and Wilmot. The Farmers Market down town. The Vegtable stand on Stone Vienny's Market The Stock Yards next to I-10 Tucson General Hospital The Cash Box when Frank and Neimer owned it. . |
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here's a few more...
"support your local sheriff - get a massage" bumperstickers in the early 70's saturday night "chiller" feature on channel 9 with kindly, lovable dr. scar the home furnishing store tv commercial where the guy would throw stuff around and say "thats a GANGA!" north alvernon flooding during summer monsoons climbing up on a boiling hot roof to work on your swamp cooler, again .20 cent draft beers those weirdos selling stuff in the traffic islands |
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The Pago Pago lounge with the monkey at the bar,
The Embers The Maverick The Palimino I believe the Prince Drive-In was the first in Tucson or was it the Rodeo Drive-In? Marshal Kgun George Borozon I remember Dr Scar also, another was Igor, I believe there was a lady who resembled elvira She was called Spookia or such? Science Fiction Theater the guy who played DrScar also played the scientist for this show. My fraternal grandfather was TPD's first motors officer. Lenny's Texaco always comes to mind The Roping Club off of Swan past Grant |
| Mom hired Marshal KGUN for my b-day party in '63. Dug out the old pic awhile back. Borden's milk home delivery. Kiddie Land on Speedway. Jacome's, Steinfeld's, all the other downtown stores with holiday/Christmas decorations. Rodeo parade downtown. Drugstore breakfast at Broadway Village for $.89. 5-Points & Clyde Wanslee. Earl Schibe. |
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My brother was on the Marshal K-Gun show. I was at the Maverick on New Years Eve 1962, right after I got home from Berlin. wowieeeeeeeee. Yeah I've had a few wild times at the Maverick myself,most of which I'd like to forget. Sambo's diner Alphies Fish and Chips (served in newspaper) The Davis Monthan Phantom Jet that crashed into the Food Giant resturant |