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  • Опубликовано: 22 июн 2010
  • A TWA promotional film about Arizona in the 1970s. To purchase a DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivesfarms.com. To license footage from this film visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

Комментарии • 189

  • @thetysondrapershow3049
    @thetysondrapershow3049 Год назад +14

    The guy who captured all this footage lived an amazing life!

  • @deeann9066
    @deeann9066 4 года назад +48

    I was born and raised in Phoenix. I was born in the old St. Joseph’s hospital in 1946. You can’t imagine the changes since my early childhood! We lived on about 12th St. and Camelback in the late 40’s and early 50’s and that was considered the country not the city! Lol,

    • @Nova-ne1il
      @Nova-ne1il 4 года назад +2

      Haha you probably went to school with my dad dolend Hodges or his brother John Hodges. .I was born in 1979 and even In my 40 years the change is crazy I drove down mill the other day. didn't even recognize the streets i was on!!. And I actually rented a small old house when I was 20 near 5th and ash . It's gone but it's so different looking I couldn't even figure out the spot it was in

    • @robertcampbell8027
      @robertcampbell8027 4 года назад +1

      Dee Ann
      Though my parents moved back to Ohio two years later, in time for my birth there, my older brother was born at St. Joseph’s in 1947. While in AZ they lived south of the airport near 24th St/Univerity and at 20th St./McDowell. My wife and I moved to Phoenix in 1976 and by 1986 my parents and all siblings were in the Valley as well.

    • @lastnamefirst4035
      @lastnamefirst4035 4 года назад +3

      I lived near encanto park for many years. I worked at st jo's. Would go to Dee's on 5th ave and thomas, mary coyles, hamburger works 15th ave and thomas (still there) Its all changed. Have you seen 7th ave and osborn? Its high rise apts, park central area has changed bc of the light rail. In the 70s I used to say phx is a smalll town. And WHAT happened to scottsdale? Everything is busy and crowded together. We live in a big city that seems to have no end

    • @cindysue5474
      @cindysue5474 3 года назад +1

      @@lastnamefirst4035 Scottsdale got to big thanks to Herb Drinkwater the yuppies of the 80s there wanted more more more. Now its divided into North and South Scottsdale high crime homeless at intersections wanting money I don't even dare go through downtown on a Friday or Saturday night its DUI central.Glad I moved out of there.

    • @pjhanna1432
      @pjhanna1432 3 года назад

      @@Nova-ne1il Wow. SMH.

  • @tkmaz
    @tkmaz 8 лет назад +36

    I probably watched this on a school projector on a rainy day schedule in the 80's....feels like it.

  • @phillipmorales8886
    @phillipmorales8886 2 года назад +11

    I was born and raised in Flagstaff, so was my family. The town grew steadily over the years, Too bad they didn't talk about Flagstaff it has a lot of history!

  • @NonPremiumID
    @NonPremiumID 4 года назад +5

    Who is still loving AZ, in 2020?!🏜

  • @mpezdirtz8220
    @mpezdirtz8220 3 года назад +6

    Arrived in 79 at 12yrs... been to or lived in many states and places outside the US... no substitute for the desert - Arizona will always be home

  • @Julietdjones
    @Julietdjones 6 лет назад +6

    I moved to Arizona - Phoenix area - back in 1980...we've changed SO much!

  • @reddevilparatrooper
    @reddevilparatrooper 6 лет назад +18

    Loved growing up in Arizona back in the 1970s! I live in Las Vegas NV but take trips to visit the old neighborhood in Phoenix.

    • @reddevilparatrooper
      @reddevilparatrooper 6 лет назад +6

      I just passed through Phoenix last year and it has grown very fast and big over the years. I used to live in the Camelback East Village and E. Indian School RD and N. Alma School Rd area back in the 70s. Things were just simple then too. Most of the people in my neighborhood came from the mid-west and east coast. My family came to Phoenix from Ft.Campbell Kentucky when my Dad retired from the Army. I moved from Phoenix to San Diego living with my Uncle who was a career Navy man and moved all over for 5 years up and down California and finally Pearl Harbor Hawaii. I finally stayed with my parents after the also moved to Hawaii because mom hated the desert. I finished high school in Honolulu Hawaii and into the Army where I roamed around the world for the next 23 years. I just have to get some vacation time from the job here in Vegas and roam around Phoenix and see my old childhood stomping grounds. Nice to remember Phoenix in the old days.

    • @cindysue5474
      @cindysue5474 3 года назад

      @J J You should came back to Az. and never look back at Ca.

    • @cindysue5474
      @cindysue5474 3 года назад

      @J J Nope not at all People are saying the hell with Ca.its turning into a dump and are getting out.

    • @cindysue5474
      @cindysue5474 3 года назад

      @J J Yes fall winter spring summer its just a cycle we are going through no matter what we do mother nature will do a 180 and fool you think of all the CO2 that comes out of the ocean.

  • @nickowens5621
    @nickowens5621 8 лет назад +50

    The land of Wallace and Ladmo!

    • @mikehenry4743
      @mikehenry4743 5 лет назад +8

      Besides on TV, I remember their stage show at Legend City.

    • @iamalive.1255
      @iamalive.1255 5 лет назад +5

      You guys are probably my age. I remember both of those too.

    • @Rawusa
      @Rawusa 3 года назад +3

      Wallace and ladmo came to our School Griffith 1976 I almost won the egg throwing contest,😆

    • @lastnamefirst4035
      @lastnamefirst4035 3 года назад +2

      And Alice Cooper..lives in scottsdale and likes to talk about wallace and ladmo

    • @frankscarborough1428
      @frankscarborough1428 3 года назад +1

      Lived in Arizona until 2002 still miss it enjoyed

  • @RandyR
    @RandyR 4 года назад +23

    I remember when Phoenix was a nice, friendly, inexpensive city. Sure not that way anymore 🙁

    • @BPoweredLove
      @BPoweredLove 2 года назад +1

      Sure it is. You're just in the wrong parts, I guess!

    • @desmondslater
      @desmondslater 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@BPoweredLovenot at all

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

      My house in year 2000 was worth like 150k. Now I just got the property evaluation from the county so they can raise my taxes again and they say it’s worth 500,000 dollars. Not a cheap place to live anymore. Not clean either. Maybe if you’re living like right next to the giant homeless encampment next to the capital building lol

  • @diannemc4840
    @diannemc4840 4 года назад +8

    We moved here in1972. What a great place it was to grow up!!😊

  • @collinbennett1537
    @collinbennett1537 5 лет назад +8

    I just kept on waiting for the narrator to say, "Come home to Simple Rick's".

  • @nicksandoval4618
    @nicksandoval4618 4 года назад +6

    The US 60 ended at mill when I was a child in the early 70’s

  • @greenthumb5730
    @greenthumb5730 4 года назад +4

    Beautiful Arizona 🥰

  • @johneddy908
    @johneddy908 8 лет назад +8

    Great footage of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar.

  • @assdaddy1877
    @assdaddy1877 6 лет назад +18

    Hey that's Peter Thomas (famous for narrating Forensic Files)

    • @TheDogpound99
      @TheDogpound99 4 года назад

      Johnathan Giles I was wondering! Awesome.

    • @kleetusvandam
      @kleetusvandam 4 года назад

      I came to the comments just to say that as well. Such a great voice!

  • @sickemjenkins2988
    @sickemjenkins2988 6 лет назад +16

    Is it just me or did everyone have that same kind of tone of voice/accent in that time period? x'D be it west or east coast, they all sound the same idk why lol

    • @BPoweredLove
      @BPoweredLove 2 года назад

      That was how broadcasters and announcers were supposed to talk. They didn't talk like that in any other times except when they were on camera or audio recorded.

  • @ggrizz6066
    @ggrizz6066 4 месяца назад +1

    I lived in Phoenix/Carefree back in the "70s, tubing down the Verde....what a great memory.

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад +1

      that water is so gross now homie lol. I went with my friend like 2 years back and broke out in a crazy rash that lasted over a week.

  • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
    @MeadeSkeltonMusic 4 года назад +5

    Riots in my city brought me here. Longing for a simpler time.

  • @DeanStrickson
    @DeanStrickson 9 лет назад +8

    Ha ha, I can't help being a little creeped out. This film is narrated by Peter Thomas who did the narration for the Forensic Files show.

  • @anthonynelson9136
    @anthonynelson9136 3 года назад +2

    You have JohnTravolta practicing his dancing for Urban Cowboy at 5.10, John Lennon accompanying the fiddle player at 5.23, And Mark Spitz the winner of 7 gold medals in the 72 Olympics at 7.33.

  • @BBQFanNo1
    @BBQFanNo1 6 лет назад +9

    Yeah the Phoenix and Arizona i remember in the Spring 1973 was very nice and much better than the one with the Mass Concrete Freeways and much less Cactus i saw in late October 1996

    • @carmenvillaverde797
      @carmenvillaverde797 5 лет назад +2

      Phoenix is a nice place to live still. I was born and raised here.

    • @cindysue5474
      @cindysue5474 3 года назад

      The freeways were outdated in the 70s basically only 2 freeways I17 flowing down to the 10 and east and west there was not much you should see it now during rush hour.

    • @BillLaBrie
      @BillLaBrie 3 года назад

      Bet you’d REALLY love it now!

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

      My buddy who works for adot says they’ve been trying to double decker the i17 for like 30 years. Would help a lot but nothing ever comes on it.

  • @Artuar3CRaFT
    @Artuar3CRaFT 2 года назад

    Beautiful!

  • @cadilacdesert
    @cadilacdesert Год назад +2

    These days are long gone. AZ used to be small and inexpensive.

  • @BBQFanNo1
    @BBQFanNo1 7 лет назад +2

    Much different now from what i heard than the last time i was in Arizona back in 1979. Use to drive with my Family from Niagara Falls to see my Relatives living in Phoenix for Spring Vacation almost every year from 1961 to 1979 stayed there for 3 weeks.

  • @cadilacdesert
    @cadilacdesert Год назад +2

    I grew up in Pinnacle peak in the 70s. It was a lot of horses and pickup trucks.

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

      If you still owned that land it would be worth over a million dollars

    • @cadilacdesert
      @cadilacdesert 3 месяца назад

      Was my parents land.@@billyshears2032

  • @ylwf
    @ylwf 11 лет назад +19

    BIG SURF!!!

    • @contrafax
      @contrafax 4 года назад

      Legend City!

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

      how we could let our only amusement park close (I don’t count castles and coasters) baffles me. It’s a market of 5 million people

  • @southwestAZ
    @southwestAZ 4 года назад +4

    I'm born here in az& from here too staying here until my body dies

  • @IAmMrQ
    @IAmMrQ 11 лет назад +4

    Home for me since 1981.

  • @brewbuzz995
    @brewbuzz995 4 года назад +3

    It's soo hot I can feel the heat already

  • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
    @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 3 года назад +2

    Those go karts looked like actual 1950’s F1 cars. Wish that stuck

  • @DannyGoldingTV
    @DannyGoldingTV 5 лет назад +3

    2:56 Hyatt Regency!!!! 7:57-8:12 Salt River Tubing that I go to once a year!!!

  • @brieziethirteen13
    @brieziethirteen13 16 дней назад

    I grew up there in the 70s.. Phoenix and Greer

  • @suzclayton783
    @suzclayton783 4 года назад +3

    Back in the 70s,80s my father flew gliders Estrella

  • @markschnabel2890
    @markschnabel2890 5 лет назад +3

    Love the pronunciation of the Mongollon Rim!

  • @earlfunkton2745
    @earlfunkton2745 4 года назад +1

    Anybody know where I can get the soundtrack for this?

  • @keithwhisman
    @keithwhisman 4 года назад +1

    Home sweet home.

  • @drakawinkle584
    @drakawinkle584 4 года назад +9

    It's unfortunate that what made Phoenix amazing was killed decades ago.

    • @daininsurance
      @daininsurance 4 года назад +3

      What made it amazing?

    • @BillLaBrie
      @BillLaBrie 3 года назад

      Like the smell of the Tovrea stockyards, the humm and odor of evap coolers, the floods...?

    • @mandalorianjedi880
      @mandalorianjedi880 3 года назад +1

      No freeways

    • @ggrizz6066
      @ggrizz6066 4 месяца назад +2

      the "hundred year floods" that came every year from 70 to 80....LOL@@BillLaBrie

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

      My mom used to tell me about the canal and how it was always at risk of breaking and flooding all of north central lol.

  • @Javelina_Poppers
    @Javelina_Poppers 8 месяцев назад +1

    I remember when McCormick Ranch was actually a ranch and not a development. Jeez I'm old.

    • @ggrizz6066
      @ggrizz6066 4 месяца назад

      you feel old? OMG...I remember when McCormick was built!

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

      I drove a truck delivering flowers when I lost my real estate job during COVID. I had to make deliveries to that development regularly. One day I get to a house and the woman answers the door dressed in all black like she just got back from a funeral. I didn’t read the card or anything but made an assumption and told her I was sorry for her loss. She thanked me and told me her friends sent her flowers from across the country because her cat died. I was speechless. Went back to the van and sat there for like 10 min thinking how the other half live. I’m sure this women never worked, and had a pretty easy life living in her multi million dollar home. If real tragedy ever struck her, I bet she would be a complete basket case.

  • @nataliereedy850
    @nataliereedy850 5 лет назад +5

    Phoenix is anything but splendid.

    • @brianb.8295
      @brianb.8295 5 лет назад +3

      Back then, it was splendid. Today however, far from it.

    • @uium
      @uium 5 лет назад +3

      I live in Seattle, and i am dreaming about moving to Phoenix :(

    • @PeterNgola
      @PeterNgola 4 года назад +1

      Your right it's incredible!

    • @niggleabductor
      @niggleabductor 2 года назад

      It's beautiful

  • @HightsWrite
    @HightsWrite 10 лет назад

    The increase in the total number of flights just might have something to do with this. In 2011, Stephen Breyer noted, "the number of [American] air passengers increas[ed] from 207.5 million in 1974 to 721.1 million last year."

  • @BBQFanNo1
    @BBQFanNo1 6 лет назад +3

    Now too many stinking Interstate Freeways being built in the State are ruining it a lot. The City Phoenix and Arizona i remember Early Spring 1973 when vacationing staying in Phoenix Motels and visiting my Aunt, Uncle and Cousins who lived there was much different much better in my personal humble opinion than the next time in late October 1996.

    • @gabemorrison9702
      @gabemorrison9702 2 года назад

      Too many interstates? There's only 6 spread out amongst the entire state. This city/state
      is idiotic for not taking advantage of the Interstate system back in the 60s and 70s. The freeway system in Phoenix is TERRIBLE!

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

      You have close to 6 million people living in the metro. Everyone drives. You want to get rid of freeways?!

  • @scottdunn2178
    @scottdunn2178 14 дней назад

    We moved to Phoenix (Sunnyslope) in 1972... the conservative Barry Goldwater Arizona I grew up in no longer exists 😢

  • @carolinagallegos3926
    @carolinagallegos3926 4 года назад +1

    Does anyone remember the name of the outdoor concert venue in the 70s? It had stadium seating and I went to alot of concerts out there but I can't remember the name!!

    • @drakawinkle584
      @drakawinkle584 4 года назад +5

      Compton terrace?

    • @alexac3098
      @alexac3098 4 года назад

      Desert Sky Pavillion?

    • @lastnamefirst4035
      @lastnamefirst4035 4 года назад +1

      @@drakawinkle584 bet it was compton terrace. Named after bill compton, disc jokey on kdkb in the. 70s. He was killed in a car accident

    • @c.b.m.5621
      @c.b.m.5621 4 года назад

      Sammy Scotch
      Did Compton Terrace have stadium seating? I only remember it as having a large grass area for sitting or standing. The last concert I saw there was AC/DC in 1982 when they were touring for their album "For Those About To Rock".

    • @paulmanning2331
      @paulmanning2331 4 года назад

      Sammy Scotch his girlfriend was driving, she survived

  • @user-td7xf3gz4l
    @user-td7xf3gz4l 3 года назад

    Name of song?

  • @Jen-X333
    @Jen-X333 4 года назад

    Hey it’s the Forensic Files guy! Peter something...

  • @xxkeithplaysxx8619
    @xxkeithplaysxx8619 3 года назад

    I live there

  • @niner6029
    @niner6029 4 года назад

    Where did the times go

  • @Porconion
    @Porconion 9 лет назад

    Opening music is "Streets of London". A great song, but a bit strange, I feel.

  • @ComradeDon
    @ComradeDon 4 года назад

    Imagine...if you can.

  • @mesocorny4366
    @mesocorny4366 4 года назад +2

    Surprised phx only had suns in the nba and not more sports teams esp nfl even though it’s bigger than den

    • @larrystaley21
      @larrystaley21 Год назад

      And wondering if those Suns will ever win an NBA Championship?

    • @billyshears2032
      @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

      everyone who lives here homie is transplants. They bring their allegiance to their home teams with them. It’s why all of our teams struggle even with a giant market.

  • @oliverdelgado6952
    @oliverdelgado6952 5 лет назад +3

    @7:33 Freddy Mercury?

  • @diecast-innracingleague9022
    @diecast-innracingleague9022 4 года назад

    Tom Selleck 7:33-7:37 !! LOL

  • @cal7121
    @cal7121 4 года назад +5

    I might be in California but my heart is in Arizona. ❤️🌞🌵

    • @cal7121
      @cal7121 4 года назад +1

      @Trumpenstein
      Arizona is much prettier!
      And it’s MAGA COUNTRY!!!
      😍🇺🇸❤️

    • @cal7121
      @cal7121 4 года назад

      @Trumpemstein
      You forgot the “A”
      And AZ will vote red again in 2020!

    • @cal7121
      @cal7121 4 года назад

      @Trumpenstein
      Do us a favor and vote for Trump.
      Do you really want big government and socialism to ruin this great country?

    • @cal7121
      @cal7121 4 года назад

      Yeah for the sequel

    • @lastnamefirst4035
      @lastnamefirst4035 4 года назад +1

      @@cal7121 WRONG not maga country just bc u want it to be

  • @patrickadams6762
    @patrickadams6762 4 года назад +4

    Still a beautiful state, but Phoenix is a hell hole.

  • @TheoneandonlyEETFUK
    @TheoneandonlyEETFUK 4 года назад

    FREDDIE? 7:32

  • @MDUBSPORTS
    @MDUBSPORTS 4 года назад +1

    11:53 Keepin it real (americans)

  • @reneesimpson7094
    @reneesimpson7094 9 месяцев назад

    Is that Peter Thomas?? Is someone about to die?

  • @billyshears2032
    @billyshears2032 3 месяца назад

    Crazy how everything is so clean. Everybody is white. I was born at the wrong time.

  • @babsfocker7751
    @babsfocker7751 10 лет назад +7

    too many Mormons there now.

    • @tkmaz
      @tkmaz 8 лет назад

      babsfocker I have friended people on Facebook from my childhood (elementary in the 80s - through high school in the 90s) & I never knew how many Mormons I grew up with. Point is, they've been here forever. And I'm not Mormon and I've never noticed them.

    • @Julietdjones
      @Julietdjones 6 лет назад +1

      What a dumb thing to say - geesh

    • @Free_Samples
      @Free_Samples 5 лет назад +1

      Too much of a lot of things now, this state has gone to shit.

    • @carmenvillaverde797
      @carmenvillaverde797 5 лет назад +3

      I'll take Mormons over you, oiyabastard ! Don't like phoenix or Arizona ? Then DON'T come here !

    • @carmenvillaverde797
      @carmenvillaverde797 5 лет назад

      You're state is shit, free samples !

  • @oiyabastard7275
    @oiyabastard7275 6 лет назад +4

    In the 70s even detroit was better...

  • @oiyabastard8891
    @oiyabastard8891 9 лет назад +6

    HMMM NOT ONE FUCKING CHEMTRAIL IN THE SKY

    • @JTube571
      @JTube571 7 лет назад +2

      Tinfoil hats engage!

    • @jackrabbittstudios7607
      @jackrabbittstudios7607 7 лет назад +2

      Oh shut up, I've talked to many people who grew up in the 1970's and 1980's and they remember seeing vapor trails from planes. Go away troll.

  • @luverizimo2597
    @luverizimo2597 7 лет назад +16

    Too many trump supporters now.

    • @jordanh856
      @jordanh856 6 лет назад +13

      luverizimo everyone in this video is probably a trump supporter now. you’re a fucking idiot if you think arizonans in the 70s/60s would be hillary supporters

    • @oiyabastard7275
      @oiyabastard7275 6 лет назад +9

      luverizimo. Tell me why the economy is thriving. Home sales are up. W million new real jobs. Lowest black unemployment is the lowest in 30 yrs under trump? Also he gave planned parent hood 1/2billion$$ signed a 2 trillion spending deal and allowed more amnesty than obama..

    • @carmenvillaverde797
      @carmenvillaverde797 5 лет назад +1

      Don't be blind, trump has done nothing to help anyone, only the rich !

    • @leslieandrews6165
      @leslieandrews6165 5 лет назад +4

      luverizimo thank god!!! That means it won’t turn into another liberal shit hole!!! Please move!!!

    • @leslieandrews6165
      @leslieandrews6165 5 лет назад +5

      carmen villaverde move to California dumb bitch

  • @stelladavis7832
    @stelladavis7832 Год назад

    It's lots of shades of brown, 110 in the shade, ugly and there's lots of it. Enjoy Arizona