This thread is up for high jacking, since it got 88 looks and no reply. Feel free.
Well, South Tucson comes to mind.I grew up in South Phoenix, what could be worse than that... LOL
South Tucson is actually pretty great these days.Well, South Tucson comes to mind.
Great Pic. Being a Native. It is great seeing the old pictures. Thanks40th street below Camelback was a great place in the 50's and early sixties for us ditch runners to grow up at.
Shot from the 50's...I picked up 50 stiches on my head hauling ass on my bike down one of the first roads that headed up that mountain in 57 and some say that's what... never mind.
24th and CanelbackI grew up right on the corner of 37th street & Camelback, so thanks for the pic
He said we couldYou High Jackers!!!!!
Then you probably know the house I grew up in. It was the Puttmans house, the big Spanish style adobe on the corner of Clarendon and 40th street. At one time the Puttmans owned a big portion of the groves in that area and they built that house in them on whats called a "country acre". 4th grade Kachina, then Tavan on Osborn.I grew up right on the corner of 37th street & Camelback, so thanks for the pic
There was a unbelievable amount of Dove and Quail because of the huge amount of habitat available and we fished the canals, especially the old crosscut canel that's now been filled for a parkway. And of course a ton of rabbits, both Jack and Cottontails. No one even blinked when they saw us kids with a 4/10 across the handlebars of our "paperboy specials" heading toward the base of the mountain to hunt Quail.Kenny & Flicks: I live very close to 40th St. & Camelback rd. I bought a house on almost an acre in 1987-when I could still afford the area. There were almost 40 grapefruit trees on my lot when I bought it but they are all slowly passing on. Kenny: thanks for the great pic. I would have loved to grown up next to these orchards. Was there any game around then? I see coyotes in my hood all the time and saw a javelina south of Indian School on 40th St. this winter.
I received my NRA certificate in the 5th grade at my grade school, but that was before the NRA was a political organization who's goal is to sell more guns by fear mongering.K: The area must have been a great place to grow up and explore. I grew up with farmers fields surrounding us on all sized so kind of had the same experience. I loved your quote about your .410. As a kid I never went anywhere without some sort of gun. In high school my friends and I would bring our shotguns, ammo and all we needed to hunt to school on days when we were released early. When school was out we load up one truck and head out for some dove or quail hunting. It was just normal to have a shotgun in the truck. Now days it is felony to get near a school with a gun or even ammo.
Wow Roberto your a long way from up north east. I started out with a 16 ga. and a .22. It was cheap amo back then.I too grew up with guns. We favored .22 as a neighbor had a gunshop and we could get our rifles head to the woods past his shop, pick up a box of ammo and walk thrugh the state hospital grounds to the woods along the mighty Susquehanna. WE did notsly plinking cans and stuff.