Phoenix, 1970s
Date: circa 1970s Location: I-17 and Thomas Road, Phoenix, Arizona Source: Arizona Department of Transportation, via AZCentral.com What do you see here?
Date: circa 1970s Location: I-17 and Thomas Road, Phoenix, Arizona Source: Arizona Department of Transportation, via AZCentral.com What do you see here?
Tom McEwen’s 1968-’69 Top Fuel slingshot dragster. Photos by Dan Duckworth, courtesy Mecum Auctions. By the mid-1960s, Tom McEwen had earned a reputation as a winning drag racer (and the nickname “Th...
Aerial view of the Bondurant Racing School facility at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona. Image courtesy Google Maps. After celebrating its 50th anniversary in February 2018, the ...
Image courtesy Google Street View. For decades, the former Phoenix Motor Company building in downtown Phoenix presented a blank face to the world. Windows and doors boarded up and stuccoed-over, it s...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Christown Mall, Phoenix, Arizona Source: courtesy Gordon E. Herschel What do you see here?
Date: circa 1963 Location: Chris-Town Mall, Phoenix, Arizona Source: via Vintage Phoenix What do you see here?
Date: circa 1950s Location: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, Arizona Source: Vintage Phoenix What do you see here?
Date: circa 1965 Location: Phoenix, Arizona Source: Jim and Chester’s Garage What do you see here?
As with all the street scenes collected by the Duke University Digital Libraries, these two from Phoenix focus on the outdoor advertising of the time and provide no date or location context. The typi...