TELEPHONE EXCHANGE    Installed at Dorsey Station - Changes Series

In 1950 Tempe only had about 7,700 people. Everyone’s phone number started with “Woodland 7” and they were all party lines so everybody knew each other. I remember there were no fences in our neighborhood.

STILTS & SUPERSTITIONS  Adapted and installed at Smith/Martin and Price Stations

I was born and raised in Tempe, and Hudson Manor was my neighborhood from 1950 until I grew up and out of the Cedar Street house in the sixties.  No sidewalks then, plenty of mud puddles on the side of the road from the August monsoons in which to splash about in with my stilts keeping me high and dry.  I could see the Superstitions from my bedroom window!  My parents also had property at Apache Junction when it was still a zoo.  I have a picture of that!

CANAL WATER - TOELIO?  Adapted and installed Price Station

The canal was way off limits for me.  The school bus crossed it on Apache, and that was about what I saw of it.  Never Never Never swim in the canals, my elders would warn.  Children die every summer by slipping in.  Don't even go there!  And then of course some thought that irrigation water might carry polio, or was that toelio?  1950s

APACHE JUNCTION ZOO  Adapted and installed at Smith/Martin Station

My parents also had property at Apache Junction when it was still a zoo.  I have a picture of that!  There really was a little desert zoo there you know, and ice cream and gas at the Y...that was it!!!