Driving Around Downtown Phoenix, Arizona in 4k Video
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Filmed on Thursday, March 7 2024, I drive around Phoenix, AZ to see what's going on.
The history of Phoenix begins with Jack Swilling, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War who prospected in the nearby mining town of Wickenburg in the newly formed Arizona Territory.
As he traveled through the Salt River Valley in 1867, he saw a potential for farming to supply Wickenburg with food. He also noted the eroded mounds of dirt that indicated previous canals dug by native peoples who had long since left the area.
He formed the Swilling Irrigation and Canal Company that year, dug a large canal that drew in river water, and erected several crop fields.
Lord Darrell Duppa was one of the original settlers in Swilling's party, and he suggested the name "Phoenix", as it described a city born from the ruins of a former civilization.
The town grew during the 1870s, and President Ulysses S. Grant issued a land patent for the site of Phoenix on April 10, 1874. By 1875, the town had a telegraph office, 16 saloons, and four dance halls.
The railroad's arrival in the valley in the 1880s was the first of several events that made Phoenix a trade center whose products reached eastern and western markets.
On February 14, 1912, Phoenix became a state capital, as Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state under President William Howard Taft.
In 1920, Phoenix would see its first skyscraper, the Heard Building.
Phoenix's population had nearly doubled during the 1920s and by 1930 stood at 48,118. It was also during the 1930s that Phoenix and its surrounding area began to be called "The Valley of the Sun", which was an advertising slogan invented to boost tourism.
After WW2, many of the men who had undergone their training in Arizona returned with their new families. Learning of this large untapped labor pool enticed many large industries to move their operations to the area. In 1948, high-tech industry, which would become a staple of the state's economy, arrived in Phoenix when Motorola chose Phoenix as the site of its new research and development center for military electronics. Seeing the same advantages as Motorola, other high-tech companies, such as Intel and McDonnell Douglas, moved into the valley and opened manufacturing operations.
By 1950, over 105,000 people resided in the city and thousands more in surrounding communities. The 1950s growth was spurred on by advances in air conditioning, which allowed homes and businesses to offset the extreme heat experienced in Phoenix and the surrounding areas during its long summers.
Phoenix was awarded an NBA franchise in 1968, which would be called the Phoenix Suns.
On September 25, 1981, Phoenix resident Sandra Day O'Connor broke the gender barrier on the U.S. Supreme Court, when she was sworn in as the first female justice.
Today, Phoenix is the fifth-most populous city in the United States.
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Really like this video. Thanks for the downtown tour. I recently moved to the valley and took a walk downtown on a Sunday morning at 11AM. It was over 105F and, naturally, very few souls walking around. I know in cooler weather and weekends there must be a lot more people out. I grew up in NYC and am used to high density urban environments. I like that Phoenix is low density, but there is so much new development and infrastructure that it feels like we're in the beginning of a new age of Phoenix coming into its own. The city is growing and growing fast. In the years ahead it will eventually have thousands of pedestrians out and about downtown outside of sports events.
Not when it damm near 115 degrees everyday hella naw
This is our downtown in Phoenix Arizona part of it is beautiful with tall buildings and the other part is not it's really not too bad downtown I have not been here for a long time since I move to Arizona I live far away from downtown Phoenix
Thanks for the tour. I try to avoid downtown PHX as much as possible.
Have you ever taken one of those driverless taxis?
obviously not from Arizona
@@exploreusacitiesyeah its the waymo cabs theyre interesting
Thanks for the video! I lived there in the 70s and 80s, Holy Smokes Phoenix was fun then!
I live right near Phoenix, and I don't like driving down there sometimes, because it gets really crazy down there with Drivers. I only drive to Phoenix if I go to a game down there, or pick up/drop off .y dad at his job in Downtown
Phoenix is such a beautiful City 🎉🎉..Thanks for posting it 🎉🇺🇲🇺🇸
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Sorry I Iived in Arizona, and absolutely loved it, but even El Paso has a better downtown. I still love you Arizona!!!
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stay out of USA
Very colorful and clean downtown but very desolate
Yeah I was laughing, in this video you can see a few people who's job it is to stop people on the street and talk to them, but they were the only ones out there
Not so desolate. Not sure where you’re getting that from. No more desolate than downtown San Diego, or Downtown LA. Now if you’re comparing it to Seattle, Chicago, or NYC, then yeah of course. But plenty happens downtown. It’s just that in the summertime, everyone tries to stay indoors. It’s no different than people staying indoors during a really frigid winter in Chicago.
@@Tryptoslave I’ve traveled and been to LA and while LA is not the most active downtown at night, it actually has a pretty LIVE scene during the day.
Seattle Chicago, or NYC? 😂. It needs to get on El Paso TX level first. (Ok not that bad, but you get my point)
First of all, the entire Phoenix metro area is NOT pedestrian and never has been. Millions of people live there, but you don’t see people walking the streets in large numbers anywhere; it’s not designed that way. Historically, (although it’s better than it used to be) nobody goes downtown unless it’s for some kind of an event, concert, game, or work and then they leave when it’s over. There are many other areas of the Valley that people frequent socially for dining, shopping, etc. BUT they drive there and park.
I promise you, Downtown Phoenix is much more lively from the months of October to April. In the Summer, not only is is blazing hot, but ASU downtown is on its summer break. Yes, I will admit that downtown Phoenix is very “event oriented”, unlike some other downtowns in the US, let me tell you, as someone who grew up here through the 80’s and 90’s, its gotten exponentially better. And it keeps getting better as time goes on.
What camera do you use?
GoPro 12
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I live here and hate downtown. Too much concrete and not enough vegetation.Not quaint.
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Wow! I would've never thought Phoenix as a mini Manhattan!