Phoenix, Arizona in the 1990's and early 2000's. A Short History from my Video Collection

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  • čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
  • I grew up in Tucson, Arizona, a short drive (at least it was back in the 90's 😅) from Phoenix and I have many quick clips from several of my trips to the Valley of the Sun.
    Most of the time we would drive to Phoenix to see a sports event, such as the recently formed Diamondbacks baseball team, and the Cardinals football team. Other times we would visit Phoenix to travel to other parts of the country, as Phoenix was a major hub for many of the airlines at the time, such as America West Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and several other large names that didn't have a presence in Tucson.
    Some of the 1990's footage that I've included in this video include:
    Arizona Mills Mall, Tempe
    Bank of America, now Mesa Financial Plaza, Mesa
    Piestewa Peak, Phoenix
    Bank One Ballpark, Now Chase Field, Phoenix
    Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
    Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe
    The Thing, Mystery of the Desert, on I-10
    Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch, Picacho
    A dust storm, also referred as a haboob, reaching Chandler
    Chandler lake communities
    American West Airlines fleet, including Phoenix Suns livery
    Southwest Airlines fleet, including their "Desert Gold" fleet
    Some quick facts included in this video:
    Arizona Mills Mall opened in 1997. The mall, and Rainforest Cafe, is still open
    Piestewa Peak is the 2nd highest peak in the Phoenix Mountains, and is named after Lori Ann Piestewa, who served in the U.S. Army
    Phoenix Sky Harbor is Arizona's busiest airport, and it's #8 in the United States as of 2021
    The Cardinals played at ASU's Sun Devil Stadium until the opening of Cardinals Stadium in 2006
    The Mesa Financial Plaza is Mesa's tallest building, at 224ft, and was built in 1985
    Southwest Airlines had a "Desert Gold" color palette, until updating their colors in the early 2000's to their more modern blue and hearts color palettes.
    Music by DjLeeJ, Felipe, and NCS Kontest
    Shot mostly with Sony Handycam. Edited with Final Cut Pro
    #phoenix #tempe #arizona #monsoon #history #vintage #1990s #1990 #2000s #2000 #skyharbor #airport #americawest #southwestairlines #dbacks #chasefield #mesa

Komentáře • 262

  • @sokithesoki
    @sokithesoki Před 7 dny +304

    A time when the skyline wasn't polluted by Rafi billboards

    • @michael85225
      @michael85225 Před 7 dny +21

      Rafi must be making bank to advertise his face literally everywhere and even on the radio with that annoying jingle.

    • @Sproutt
      @Sproutt Před 6 dny +7

      Rafi law group is the Worst learn from my Mistake. Your Welcome.

    • @felldoh9271
      @felldoh9271 Před 6 dny +5

      lmao.
      and ‘Andrew The Home Buyer’

    • @user-jm6gm6kx4x
      @user-jm6gm6kx4x Před 5 dny +1

      Im dead af

    • @YOUTUBE_BOOMERnCHAN
      @YOUTUBE_BOOMERnCHAN Před 5 dny +7

      Call Rafi Rafi..... 😂 Laffy taffy

  • @madlad9822
    @madlad9822 Před 8 dny +115

    It is true- I remember when I was younger there were actual monsoon seasons. Now we get basically nothing.

    • @notafortnitegamer
      @notafortnitegamer Před 5 dny +12

      Now we just got unsustainable amounts of illegal immigrants 😢

    • @madlad9822
      @madlad9822 Před 5 dny +3

      @@notafortnitegamer Fax

    • @piroshk1968
      @piroshk1968 Před 5 dny

      ​@@notafortnitegamer you're technically an illegal immigrant too if you were born here

    • @alejandrito8151
      @alejandrito8151 Před 4 dny +3

      Same here in another town in az monsoon doesnt even exist compared to as a child

    • @alejandrito8151
      @alejandrito8151 Před 4 dny +6

      ​@@notafortnitegamerarizona was mexicos son

  • @fernknowsbeststudios7964
    @fernknowsbeststudios7964 Před 7 dny +44

    Dust storms, monsoon season in the late 90s/early 2000s were amazing, shame they don’t happen to be the same these days…

    • @michael85225
      @michael85225 Před 7 dny +9

      Yes I was talking about this with my brother. Our monsoon started becoming almost nothing starting around 2018 and now it hardly rains during the monsoon season.

    • @fernknowsbeststudios7964
      @fernknowsbeststudios7964 Před 6 dny +2

      @@michael85225 I left Arizona in the mid 2010s to do my undergrad in LA, and then permanently soon after, everytime I come back for the summer the storms are so underwhelming, there’s more rainfall in the desert during December nowadays!

    • @TikkiNikki
      @TikkiNikki Před 4 dny +3

      ​@michael85225 yet people still deny climate change. Wild

    • @garethwillmott4234
      @garethwillmott4234 Před 4 dny +1

      @@TikkiNikkiclimate change is 100% real, but it also significantly has to do with cloud seeding by surrounding states which Rob's moisture out of the clouds before they get to us

    • @santiinx737
      @santiinx737 Před 3 dny

      @@garethwillmott4234we have cloud seeding in Arizona too

  • @TravisG-lj9dz
    @TravisG-lj9dz Před 6 dny +42

    I'm 43 years old, born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and live in Gilbert. 90s in Phoenix was a good time. The house I grew up in and lived at for 16 years was right in the center of it all, on 24th Street and Osborn. I remember life was a lot easier in those days. Now everything in that area is expensive. The house I grew up in sold for 80k, now it's worth over 450k! And the house is in way worse shape than it was when I lived in it. My fondest memories of monsoons at that house was the power of those storms back in the 80s! I remember as a kid I would go out and swim in our big backyard pool, now it's just a dead lot filled in with dirt, and when a monsoon would come in, to see that wall of clouds, it was spectacular especially at sunset when the massive clouds would be dark purple/gray, and orange. One of my best past times during the summer was to drown wasps that landed in the pool for a drink by jumping in nearby, it pisses them off, but this got dangerous when a wasp crawled into my swim trunks and stung me, then i stopped it.

    • @johnkredit9072
      @johnkredit9072 Před 5 dny +1

      I'm a decade younger but I grew up in the same neighborhood, SW of those cross streets. It was a great spot, loved playing in the irrigation, didn't have a pool sadly. And dust storms were the best part of the summer

    • @charlesleerae9023
      @charlesleerae9023 Před 5 dny

      Same age live here 24th Street and Roosevelt .Grew up in this area.

    • @peoplethesedaysberetarded
      @peoplethesedaysberetarded Před 2 dny

      Whoah. Bad areas, all of these. At least in 1988-1995, this was the ghetto.

  • @donchaput8278
    @donchaput8278 Před 7 dny +28

    Back when you could actually read the signage around the airport and it wasn't all covered by other overpasses.

  • @Mr.T_az
    @Mr.T_az Před 2 dny +7

    Man the bank of America building at night with the lights is so nostalgic, grew up down the street from there. Cant forget about fiesta mall too!

  • @sergeantseven4240
    @sergeantseven4240 Před měsícem +55

    Born in 1989 in Glendale and raised in Phoenix. 1998-2000 was a good time for me as a child. I love videos like this that bring back some of the nostalgia. My dad passed away on the 9th and he raised me as a single father, he worked on the crew of electricians doing a majority of the work at Arizona Mills Mall.

    • @AlienFinger
      @AlienFinger Před 7 dny

      RIP your father.

    • @Specterno1
      @Specterno1 Před 6 dny +2

      Mills was the most amazing mall growing up

    • @thomasmann3560
      @thomasmann3560 Před 6 dny +1

      Dude I was born in 89. In Glendale. Small world. I actually went to independence high school. The 90s were amazing.

    • @sergeantseven4240
      @sergeantseven4240 Před 6 dny +1

      @thomasmann3560 Graduated 2008 from Ironwood High School.

    • @christopherpoucher483
      @christopherpoucher483 Před 5 dny

      Anyone go to desert garden elementary 96-97

  • @caddylover10
    @caddylover10 Před dnem +4

    I was the Director of Restaurant services at the Rainforest Café, part of the opening hiring and training team. In the three years I was there we did 15 million dollars the first year, 13.5 the second and ended up mellowing out and averaged over 10 mill a yr. after that.

  • @timward3116
    @timward3116 Před 7 dny +19

    One of the great things about Phoenix then, as now, is that its non-descript skyline becomes almost like a dreamy, sepia vision blurred by the filthy brown air. Almost like something from a Stephen King novel. It screams loudly, "We're here to stay, and we don't care WHAT you think!" Charmless, yes - but charmless in an almost surreal way.

  • @andrewt8116
    @andrewt8116 Před měsícem +14

    I remember the carpet and the weird textured concrete pillars of the first floor. That airport used to be ultimate liminal space

    • @PaulAngileri
      @PaulAngileri Před 6 dny

      That 2-color brown carpet with the airplane shapes in it? That was always ugly.

  • @Tiffanyshantay
    @Tiffanyshantay Před 17 dny +20

    Born in Phoenix in 89 still living in Glendale I miss these days this place has changed so dang much.

    • @cr-cg7kn
      @cr-cg7kn Před 7 dny

      it happens so slowly we don’t realize it .. watching this clip making me feel old 😆

    • @thomasmann3560
      @thomasmann3560 Před 6 dny +1

      It's crazy to think, I am now 35. Seeing these videos makes me relive my child hood. I actually grew up in Glendale too. Went to independence hs

    • @anthonygonzales3172
      @anthonygonzales3172 Před dnem

      Same, I was born at Maryvale hospital in 91 and still live in Peoria. Left for a few years but came back home to the desert

  • @JarleyBox
    @JarleyBox Před 6 dny +12

    So nice to see a video like this. I feel like a unicorn sometimes when I'm the only person in the group to say, "I was born and raised here. " hope you can share more!

  • @briguy9428
    @briguy9428 Před 3 dny +2

    Born and raised in Phoenix, the starkest change I would say is the downtown area. It's been built up a ton, lots of residential towers, none of that used to exist. Also a ton of art and food culture in the area. IMO, the light rail really brought a lot of life to the inner part of the city.

  • @micamadness4469
    @micamadness4469 Před 2 měsíci +11

    Great time capsule. I'm going to be turning 38 in a few days and I've lived in AZ for all those years. Never have lived in another state. Took weekly pictures of BOB being built for a while. Had season tickets for 1998 and 99 with my dad. Great times but boy has my state changed. Going to miss having a much smaller population and simpler times.

    • @Filmlove
      @Filmlove  Před 2 měsíci +1

      The construction of BOB must have been quite a thing to see!

  • @dival9035
    @dival9035 Před 6 dny +8

    born and raised here in phx, most of these videos are from right before i was born. i only got a tail end of the glory days but man the vibes were just different. hearing my own worst enemy playing on 104.7 is WILD

  • @queenschism1234
    @queenschism1234 Před 4 dny +3

    i was a baby when this was filmed and never got to really experience any of this even though i am from here...only got to experience early 2000's from what i remember, kinda crazy!

  • @Sb129
    @Sb129 Před 4 dny +5

    I still call it Bank One Ballpark at times, it just sounds so much better, just like America West Arena.
    Those Chandler neighborhoods with the water are pretty much for retirees with lots of money. I helped my family flip houses post 2008 and we did one such house in an area like that, there was always some dude jet skiing every morning.
    I remember we lived on Pecos and Alma School around '99. On Az Ave and Pecos, there was a bar called the Pecos Lounge and south of that there was nothing, not even the 202. Now I think that building is a title loans place, Lol.
    We pretty much always lived in the East Valley (and a brief stint in Payson) and it is wild to see how much everything has grown My great aunt has lived in the same spot in Tempe since 1985 and she remembers when Tempe had fields all over, Imagine.
    This was also the time when 3TV was "The place with more stuff!" and I loved their "Good Morning Arizona" segment intro.

    • @brainchildguru
      @brainchildguru Před 12 hodinami

      I lived at Pecos and Alma school not too long ago. Currently a few miles east. It’s a great area.

  • @coreykelley9441
    @coreykelley9441 Před 7 dny +9

    I was 11 in Phoenix during these videos. This is such a throw back. Amazing

  • @MikeHarris1984
    @MikeHarris1984 Před 6 dny +10

    I'm a 40 year old phoenix native.... born and raised.. a lot has changed... So odd seeing this old footage..

  • @richw2615
    @richw2615 Před 17 dny +11

    I took my wife to the Rainforest Cafe on our first date in 2000. It was new and we had to wait in line even though we had a reservation. Took the kids there years later it was still pretty cool. Went again a few years ago. It was getting run down. The fish tanks which were awesome in the past were empty. Food was mediocre. Not very busy. I'm surprised it's still open. I was surprised you didn't mention America West Arena where the Suns played.

  • @andyfields3248
    @andyfields3248 Před 17 dny +13

    That isn't Camelback mountain, it's the McDowell Mountains with Tovrea Castle in the foreground.
    The Thing is a mummy, an actual very long dead human. What I remember most about it is the smell, it was strange. It is actually east of Benson, so the other side of Tucson from Phoenix.
    The John Wayne Ostrich farm is still there and quiet a lot larger than shown here.

    • @filthycasual9862
      @filthycasual9862 Před 20 hodinami

      Just past by that and The Lions Den on my way back from a work trip in Tucson. Never checked out The Thing but i kinda wanna pet an Ostrich haha!

  • @herculejoestar5809
    @herculejoestar5809 Před 7 dny +8

    Born and raised in phoenix also currently working at sky harbor (born in 93) seeing terminal 2 was wild both T1 and T2 are gone now

  • @_ARIZONA_MAN
    @_ARIZONA_MAN Před 2 dny +1

    I moved to Phoenix in July 2001. Still not a fan of the heat but I’ll probably never leave. I love it here.

  • @joyfulhomemaker8053
    @joyfulhomemaker8053 Před 6 dny +7

    KZZP! Lol! Whoa! That just took me back

  • @laurengirofilo4542
    @laurengirofilo4542 Před 7 dny +7

    It's interesting to see how Phoenix was back then. I didn't get a chance to experience Phoenix in the late 90's because I was born in 1999.

  • @DoctorMotorcycle
    @DoctorMotorcycle Před 2 dny +3

    I grew up in Glendale around 67th avenue and Cactus, which in the 90's and 00's was a relatively new develpoment, and similar to what the happy valley area is today. I remember when the Cactus to 101 onramp wasn't even there, lol. You either had to go to Grand or Thunderbird. Anyways, I distinctly remember one specific monsoon during the early 00's that it rained so hard and for so long that our street was completely flooded and there were underpasses that flooded up to the freeway. We were floating around on rafts in the street, it was wild. It hasn't rained like that in Phoenix in 20 years at least.

    • @filthycasual9862
      @filthycasual9862 Před 20 hodinami

      I remember that monsoon! I was just a kid but man was it going so hard that night. The thunder, the rumbling, the window shaking, the shadows from the trees sway back and forth with the street lamps. And it was just like you said after, just flooded up and down everywhere! I was at 67th and Peoria!

    • @brainchildguru
      @brainchildguru Před 12 hodinami

      We had record rain around 2014 when we had the 100-year storm. It was absolutely insane. Retention basins were completely full, people riding jet skis in them.

  • @luciusboudae8072
    @luciusboudae8072 Před 6 dny +6

    I had just moved to Phoenix in '99 and this brought back lots of memories! SR51 was not even done back then! It stopped at Northern. Also, back then Phoenix had a Techno/Dance station. Phoenix was awesome back then.

    • @Ashley-fj3hq
      @Ashley-fj3hq Před 6 dny +1

      You just unlocked like two memories for me 🤯

    • @lindseycassella3015
      @lindseycassella3015 Před 4 dny +1

      That's crazy to think about the 51 ending at northern. I know that area well.
      I remember that dance music station then one day it changed to oldies music. If I'm not mistaken that was energy. KNRJ 101.1 and 92.7

    • @luciusboudae8072
      @luciusboudae8072 Před 4 dny +1

      @@lindseycassella3015 YES!! That was the station!! Such a great station!!

  • @theconfusedmexican704
    @theconfusedmexican704 Před dnem +2

    I miss all the fields on power road and as of a month ago the last one got turned into a warehouse complex. There were a ton more fields all around the city 10 years ago but now they are gone

  • @timriecken5453
    @timriecken5453 Před dnem +1

    I live in Mesa, work in Chandler and grew up in scottsdale. This was a great watch 😊 I remember before the 101 was built, there were several overpasses built in the middle of the desert in anticipation of the highway on the reservation.

  • @TikkiNikki
    @TikkiNikki Před 4 dny +2

    The wholenvibe of phoenix was indescribable. I made friends with so many fellow punks from phienix shows and random parties/hang outs. Never had a fear of getting shot or mugged

    • @Newshustle
      @Newshustle Před 2 dny

      what do you think of phx now? still safe?

  • @Ajidam
    @Ajidam Před 20 hodinami +3

    I was there. I remember mill ave in Tempe was renamed to millennium ave for the year 2000. Also on October 22, 1999 I had a huge UFO encounter in the Superstition Mountains near canyon lake. 10 saucers and two octagon shaped ships. A giant humanoid was on board the octagon and he was 20 feet tall. The rest of the crafts in the fleet contained grey type aliens. True story.

  • @Morgan_le_they
    @Morgan_le_they Před 5 dny +1

    This was a fun flashback to my high school years. And yes, anyone from outside the state, please don’t go hiking here in the summer!

  • @RedBlackFilms
    @RedBlackFilms Před 5 dny +2

    @3:07 - Those are The Islands. Drive past them all the time. During Christmas, the residents decorate the back of their houses and float around on boats to look at them. Quite spectacular.

  • @holbol9468
    @holbol9468 Před 8 dny +6

    Lived in the east valley now for 40 years! Great videos brought back so many memories. I worked at Rainforest Café for one day right when it opened. The long lines of people waiting to get into the restaurant gave me massive anxiety, so I ran for the hills.😂😂

    • @Filmlove
      @Filmlove  Před 7 dny

      Awesome you’ve still been there for that time! All that anxiety that everyone must have experienced and they were probably paying like a “generous” $5.15/hour for all of that work 😂😅

    • @cr-cg7kn
      @cr-cg7kn Před 7 dny +1

      ha .. the valley has changed soo much ..

  • @amrehu88
    @amrehu88 Před 4 dny +4

    Phoenix during that time was such a vibe. I miss it.

  • @relaxxdfittactical
    @relaxxdfittactical Před 5 dny +2

    Ahhh. I lived on 15ave and Glendale going to high school down town. Man I miss those days.

  • @LuisMiranda86
    @LuisMiranda86 Před 4 dny +1

    Do more please I was born and raised in Mesa, I love seeing all these tapes it reminds me of my childhood 😎

  • @kylekenney4758
    @kylekenney4758 Před 3 dny +3

    When recording who would have thought that what seemed like in random footage would be absolutely iconic footage 🔥.

  • @MeshugaMatch-m6q
    @MeshugaMatch-m6q Před 7 dny +6

    Nice. Very nostalgic. I lived in Tempe and Phx for several years between the late 80s through 2008. The Valley has changed drastically since I first lived in the area. I think some of the most interesting stories I've heard, and videos I've seen about Phx, are from the 70s. Apparently during monsoon season, I-17 would get flooded, especially at the underpass at Bell Road. Teenagers would jump from the overpass and play in the water. Kinda gross, too. 😂
    I didn't grow up in Phoenix. I grew up in Lake Havasu City. 😒. Thank you for your condolences. LoL

  • @tianagray
    @tianagray Před 5 dny +1

    Thanks for sharing. I grew up in mesa and graduated in 2002!

  • @nauxjuan
    @nauxjuan Před 7 dny +4

    Came to PHX in 2012 and all my sons are born here. Videos like this are always interesting for someone not originally from southern AZ

  • @brucewayne-ej3cx
    @brucewayne-ej3cx Před 5 dny +2

    The Arby's fish sandwich comes and goes getting updated every few years. Last one was decent

  • @xcxangel9948
    @xcxangel9948 Před 7 dny +4

    This was amazing, and that 90s radio clip in the car at sky harbor 😂😂😂

  • @michaelwhite3009
    @michaelwhite3009 Před 6 dny +1

    Great vid! I’m glad you took the time back in the day to get all the footage!

  • @Yungbillyboy
    @Yungbillyboy Před 5 dny +1

    Love this! Born in 98 so this is very interesting

  • @JAMESWUERTELE
    @JAMESWUERTELE Před 5 dny +1

    I had just moved there in Aug 1999 for a year. Way cool

  • @MomCat03
    @MomCat03 Před 6 dny +4

    I moved here in late 1978. We lived near Indian bend and Hayden before that huge shopping center was built just to the east past Pima road. Bell road & Scottsdale Road, (heading west on Bell) was a dirt road in parts. My mom wanted to buy some land around that area & I remember my dad telling her that nothing would really come of that area, so they didn’t invest…omg, I’d be a wealthy person today..Remember when Rawhide was off of Scottsdale Road, north past bell? I slowly watched the landscape change as we took every family member that visited from back east there. The carriage rides through the desert slowly, over time brought retail shops and gas stations that ruined the whole “out west” experience…the day they relocated Rawhide I swore I’d move…but now? Here I sit, raising my own family out west where it was really desolate…near around 75 th Ave. Legend City gone…going tubing at Saguaro Lake isn’t the same, nothing is…it’s crowded, polluted, people aren’t as friendly, except us older people who can relate to simpler times. I miss Los Arcos Mall…and to think I hated my parents for moving me here from back east, as I finally finished Catholic School and was about to go to public school where my siblings went, and I left behind my friends. It was so quite back then it drove me crazy…..and now? I’d do anything for it to be like it was then….how fast we learn to appreciate life and those simpler, quiet, more friendly, less polluted & crowded times when Metro Mall was the place to hit with your Xmas list and you could go shooting out in the desert just for fun, 15 mins from your house….❤🌵

  • @tanquavious
    @tanquavious Před dnem +1

    this is really interesting because this is what phx looked like back when my dad first moved here to go to asu.

  • @captainbeatdown6254
    @captainbeatdown6254 Před 7 dny +3

    I was born in 1999 on august, my family said I was born on the biggest monsoon storm of that year and its so cool on these videos to see the storms leading up to my birth on this video! im glad got people like you archiving footage and posting them on the internet

    • @Filmlove
      @Filmlove  Před 7 dny

      Thanks for watching! Yeah I remember the late 90’s seemed to be the biggest years for monsoons I remembered, at least in the parts of Tucson that I lived in

    • @producerdave4252
      @producerdave4252 Před 5 dny

      That's cool

  • @N0WisH3R3AZ
    @N0WisH3R3AZ Před 2 dny +1

    I grew up in Glendale , in 28 years I myself have seen everything change .

  • @Lisafrank6
    @Lisafrank6 Před dnem +1

    Great commentary and also fun to see PHX from 90s 🎉

    • @Filmlove
      @Filmlove  Před dnem

      Thanks, I always get nervous when I voiceover!

  • @michael85225
    @michael85225 Před 7 dny +5

    The good old days when the Phoenix area was affordable and a nice place to live. I was born in 1990 and grew up in Chandler and my dad was the sole provider for a family of 6 and we were able to live comfortably. Don't get me wrong, I still like it here but it has grown so much and housing is becoming a huge issue and put the high prices into the mix.

  • @TheAblist01
    @TheAblist01 Před 7 dny +5

    I turned 11 on Aug 15th, 1999, and i remember that monsoon. It was my bday right before my 6th grade year started. We drove to AZ mills to get my ear (singular) pierced so i could look fresh for school, lol. Then we stopped and had dinner at gordon biersch on mill Ave and watched the storm.

  • @MotoChurro
    @MotoChurro Před 5 dny +2

    I lived in Phoenix for college in 98-99. I loved waking up Saturday mornings and just driving around Phoenix and Scottsdale. And yes, Arizona Mills mall was awesome!

  • @felldoh9271
    @felldoh9271 Před 6 dny +4

    Thank you very much for posting this. I was born in ‘88 and grew up in Chandler.
    The 90s and early to mid 2000s was the best time in human history (at least for western civilization).
    One summer (I forgot which year, maybe it was ‘95) a storm was so bad that the winds threw our riding lawn mower across our yard and uprooted two huge tamarack trees. We lived on a horse ranch type area with dirt roads in the neighborhood. There were cotton fields surrounding most of our property so we think it may have been a small tornado that uprooted the first huge tree, hopped across our backyard, and then landed right on the other huge tree that it also uprooted.

    • @Chevelle602
      @Chevelle602 Před 2 dny

      I was born in 88 and remember that storm well. Our metal shed literally just blew away and our old brick wall fell over. It was like a tornado came through the valley.

    • @brainchildguru
      @brainchildguru Před 12 hodinami

      It’s so weird, it’s like 95% of commenters were born in ‘88. Including yours truly.

  • @TheBadAssNinjaDude
    @TheBadAssNinjaDude Před 6 dny +3

    Phoenix native here. i'll chime in as I watch. it's pronounced pie-ess tu-wah peak. allot of those open water areas were either water treatment centers, or irrigation reservoirs, which were, cool history, build OVER the canals originally built by the native indigenous people, the Pueblo. I love driving through Sky harbor. also think it's the coolest airport name. yeah, very diverse wildlife that wants to kill you. we're little australia! those dust storms can be EPIC. they are very much like the mummy, just a moving WALL of dust. Traffic is still an issue. our traffic hour is from about 3-7:30.

  • @azrailfan2717
    @azrailfan2717 Před 6 dny +3

    11:49 Bank of America building in mesa on Alma school and southern. I remember that building growing up in mesa around the time the footage was made. BofA sold the building in 2010 and has changed ownership since

    • @mvsgeek
      @mvsgeek Před 6 dny +1

      I believe that it was the Western Savings Building in the late 80s.

  • @producerdave4252
    @producerdave4252 Před 5 dny +1

    The Thing was a roadside attraction. It cost a dollar and you walked through it next to a gas station. It had some artifacts along with some "oddities" and "sideshow" like objects and pitcures. The big reveal was a "preserved" human body in a glass case. Which was at best a D-movie prop. But it only cost a dollar and if you were a kid, you definitly got a freaked out a bit by the mummy.

  • @trajanfidelis1532
    @trajanfidelis1532 Před 6 dny +3

    Thanks for the good memories

  • @pinball541
    @pinball541 Před 7 dny +3

    I used to fly AWA all the time before the US Air merger. I still remember the old America West commercials, especially the one that collaborated AWA & Bashas' partership. Eddie Basha stood on the wing of the plane. We still had stores like Smith's, Smitty's, Fry's Electronics and others. Arizona Mills was ok, I temember "Just For Feet" at the mall where the 10th pair was free. Just For Feet also had a basketball half court in the store. I always prefered Fiesta Mall myself. I lived in Payson during that time. I remember the trips down the hill to go shopping, we always brought the ice chest for the Costco trips!

  • @raspberrian
    @raspberrian Před 23 dny +2

    Thank you for sharing this. I am from Tucson. I looked forward to going to Phoenix growing up.

  • @Perich29
    @Perich29 Před dnem +1

    I was living in Fresno CA at that time, way before we moved there.

  • @MomCat03
    @MomCat03 Před 6 dny +2

    Sorry…last thing. (Maybe lol) Anyone remember Scottsdale Rd getting washed out down near McKellips? It was a virtual river running across Scott’s. Rd…what a site to see…I’m so sorry folks, but reminiscing about the early 80’s, things were so different, it makes me happy & sad at the same time. We need a retro AZ group that can get together and talk about those good ol days and visit some spots that may still be untouched by time…if any!

  • @koreyb
    @koreyb Před měsícem +15

    Ah the smell of creosote right after a rain!

    • @rmp5s
      @rmp5s Před 7 dny

      Is THAT what that smell is?...

    • @koreyb
      @koreyb Před 7 dny +3

      @@rmp5s it depends, if there are creosote bushes near you when it rains, then that is probably what you are smelling. It is intense.

    • @rmp5s
      @rmp5s Před 7 dny

      @@koreyb I'll have to look into that...I thought creoste was a brand of paint or something. 🤣

    • @koreyb
      @koreyb Před 7 dny +2

      @@rmp5s Quote: "Creosote Bush is commonly named as such because this plant's heavy resinous scent and tacky demeanor has been compared to the smell of creosote found in stove pipes. It doesn't really smell like black soot at all to me, but does indeed have a sweet and musty smell that especially fills the air after rainstorms when it opens it stomata and on cool mornings in the desert where it grows. This plant is also sometimes called Chaparral, possibly because of its scrubby and tangled appearance"

    • @rmp5s
      @rmp5s Před 7 dny +1

      @@koreyb Very interesting...thanks!

  • @Sabotage_Labs
    @Sabotage_Labs Před 28 dny +3

    0:21 Damn...I miss America West!!! I started traveling for business, like 40 weeks a year, just before the US Airways merger. So wished they kept the America West naming but, they weren't just an upstart airline anymore. Hated that merger. You could walk up to any AWA counter in any airport to check in and say...Hi...and be greeted with a big smile and hello...always thanking you for flying with them. Great flight crews.... especially the Vegas flights lol.
    After merge, I was checking in at the counter in Philly (originally from that area), said..Hi...to the woman and I'm counter and before I could saying something else she just said m....WHAT? Yea, wasn't use to that lol. Apparently, US Airways had a lot of wage cuts and union issues. Layoffs. The employees took it pretty hard for a few years. Yes, I was in Philly but....come on. They aren't that bad lol.
    It was great having a hometown (Phoenix for 45 years now) airline with so many direct flights. Every smaller city after the merge...had to go through Charlotte or Philly. I've been in the Charlotte airport second most...after Phoenix lol. Miss AWA!

  • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245

    Ayyyy another 90’s Lee from AZ! I still got my Opening day ball from BOB

  • @bloonmaster123
    @bloonmaster123 Před dnem +1

    Reason we don't have monsoons anymore is because there's a heat bubble in the valley. All the concrete and asphault heats up the whole valley to the point clouds cant even pass through most the time

  • @Sproutt
    @Sproutt Před 6 dny +3

    Rain Forest Cafe!!!

  • @nicholasshugrue4229
    @nicholasshugrue4229 Před dnem +1

    Bro just described my childhood.

  • @Moon___man
    @Moon___man Před 6 dny +2

    Wow so cool thanks for sharing. This was right when my family moved here, back when I was just 3 years old. Definitely remember the monsoons being a bigger deal. Barely even rained this year. Nowadays it seems like we just get the humidity without any major storms :(

  • @johnwayne666
    @johnwayne666 Před 23 hodinami +1

    So cool...😎🤙🏻

  • @cr-cg7kn
    @cr-cg7kn Před 7 dny +3

    moved here in 1996…. cannot believe it’s been that many years ago ..

  • @cr-cg7kn
    @cr-cg7kn Před 7 dny +3

    i do hvac here in the valley..while i’m dying from the heat i often times wonder who came over those mountains (from the north) took a look at the desert down below , dry as a bone , and decided 🤔 “yep, this is the place we’re building a city”

  • @jameswest7945
    @jameswest7945 Před 4 dny +1

    I live a couple miles from Mills It’s a ghost town these days. El pollo loco is still good

  • @MomCat03
    @MomCat03 Před 6 dny +2

    Also…in 2000 I was pregnant with my only child and worked at sky harbor airport in the parking garages in those lil booths that you stopped at to pay for parking…A different terminal every day. I made some good friends and it was the perfect job. I’d watch the sun come up, back then they allowed food in the booths and we all used to hang out and chat…or it was the night shift…oh how I loved watching all the planes. How ironic my kid had such a fascination with planes when he was little!😊✈🛫🛬

  • @BroadwayfanRich
    @BroadwayfanRich Před 6 dny +2

    Tucson native here!! It was such a treat to go to Phoenix!!!

  • @stacya4713
    @stacya4713 Před 6 dny +4

    The Good Old Days 😢

  • @jameswest7945
    @jameswest7945 Před 4 dny +1

    We had record snow last winter it was nice

  • @christopherpoucher483
    @christopherpoucher483 Před 5 dny +1

    Born 89 been living between tucson and phoenix during the 90s to mid 2000s fun times

  • @kinnertubbyson
    @kinnertubbyson Před měsícem +3

    Opening shot: my 14th birthday. Phx is a little rougher than normal, but it's still a great city.

    • @TheAblist01
      @TheAblist01 Před 7 dny

      It was my 11th bday. Happy belated fellow millennial

    • @kinnertubbyson
      @kinnertubbyson Před 6 dny +1

      @@TheAblist01 Happy Belated, Dudeson!!!

  • @RJSchex
    @RJSchex Před 7 dny +3

    My opinion:
    Arizona Mills Mall "jumped the shark" in 2009, due to the closure of Virgin Megastore.

  • @Gnosis314
    @Gnosis314 Před 6 dny +1

    I actually moved to phoenix in the year 2000 ❤

  • @whatname93
    @whatname93 Před 7 dny +2

    Had great memories with my dad on bring your kid to work day at Southwest Airlines before 9/11

  • @andrewdavid9412
    @andrewdavid9412 Před 3 dny +1

    I've been a Sonoran desert rat since 1987, when half of old town Scottsdale used to close for the summer. The decline began once the height restrictions for buildings was scrapped. If you stand at the corner of Scottsdale and Camelback you can no longer see Camelback Mountain, because it's blocked by hi-rise condo buildings.

  • @joyfulhomemaker8053
    @joyfulhomemaker8053 Před 6 dny +3

    Schools still have school buses. Charter schools don’t have much bussing

  • @MasterMayhem78
    @MasterMayhem78 Před 7 dny +2

    Sleep during the day, work and play at night. Unfortunately it’s much less safe to go out at night now.

  • @A52_E92
    @A52_E92 Před 6 dny +3

    As someone born in Phoenix in 2008 who for some reason has a lot of nostalgia for the 90s and early 2000s, the thing that stands out to me the most is the cars. Man I wish I still saw all these old cars where, especially since everyone drives white suvs now.

  • @aXentOG
    @aXentOG Před 7 dny +3

    3:05 These neighborhood designs have been proven to make the heat dissipation WORSE so you're spot on, and it's not even a thing that had to do with the lack of water

    • @Filmlove
      @Filmlove  Před 7 dny +1

      Interesting, I had no idea that design actually made things worse 😂, but I know that it’s always impossible to find a place to park with shade because nothing seems to get planted close to the sidewalk anymore these days

  • @coyotelong4349
    @coyotelong4349 Před 7 dny +2

    Awesome footage, man! I’m 30 years old now so I think we’re about the same age give or take. Born and raised in Mesa
    All the footage of Sky Harbor in 1999 was great and brought back so many memories. My dad has worked there for Southwest (and still does!) so PHX has always been a big part of my life
    And by the way, it’s pronounced “PIE-ess-chew-uh” Peak! 😊 Lori Ann Piestewa was Hopi

  • @danieldaniels7571
    @danieldaniels7571 Před 7 dny +7

    I’ve been in Phoenix since 1972. Squaw Peak will always be Squaw Peak to me.

    • @Xosidhe
      @Xosidhe Před 4 dny

      It’s a derogatory term equivalent to “cunt.” Piestewa is the surname of the first Native American woman to die in combat in the US military. It’s good to correct bad history.

  • @jameswest7945
    @jameswest7945 Před 4 dny +1

    Good narration

  • @joyfulhomemaker8053
    @joyfulhomemaker8053 Před 6 dny +2

    I’ve been to the ostrich place. I went a little over a year ago and it is a fun time w the family

  • @joyfulhomemaker8053
    @joyfulhomemaker8053 Před 6 dny +2

    I miss old down town Tempe! You could walk up A Mountain and actually have a view

  • @Clownfish273
    @Clownfish273 Před 6 dny +1

    Arby's Still sells the fish sandwich during lent ... it is actually very good ... in fact arbys is a great restaurant and I love it

    • @Filmlove
      @Filmlove  Před 6 dny

      Now I’ve got to try that sandwich!

  • @maseratimitch2024
    @maseratimitch2024 Před 4 dny +2

    PHX used to be so awesome. So sad

  • @brainchildguru
    @brainchildguru Před 12 hodinami +1

    My grandpa ended up driving his car into the fountain in front of the building around 12:00.

    • @Filmlove
      @Filmlove  Před 12 hodinami

      @@brainchildguru hope he was safely okay afterwards 🙏🏼 and was able to tell an interesting tale

  • @Revan-
    @Revan- Před 7 dny +2

    Sure has changed over the years, tucson has too. Phoenix is just so massive now and I always resented the fact that they got so much more cool stuff than Tucson. Also yes the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich ranch is still here lol

  • @maui2745
    @maui2745 Před dnem +1

    Vegas and LA has tons of 90s footage, disappointed how little there are for Phoenix

  • @joeglennaz
    @joeglennaz Před měsícem +4

    Do a video of Phoenix in the 80s especially the early to mid 80s

    • @Filmlove
      @Filmlove  Před měsícem +1

      I would love to see quality videos of Phoenix and Tucson from the 80’s too! I personally don’t have any footage or photos

  • @JesusxGutierrez
    @JesusxGutierrez Před 2 dny +1

    Wondering how the trail looked when going up piestewa back in 1999