Scenes on I-10 heading east into Phoenix. On the left you can see buildings on Central Avenue. The Veterans Memorial Coliseum is visible on the far left. On the right you can see buildings along VanBuren.
Pictures of things we saw around the Phoenix area.
Scenes on I-10 heading east into Phoenix.
On the left you can see buildings on Central Avenue.
The
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
is visible on the far left.
On the right you can see buildings along VanBuren.
This is the
Arizona State Capitol Building.
The dome is made of copper, and the walls are made of
various native rock
from around Arizona. The
Winged Victory statue
at the top weighs 600 lbs, but it is so well balanced
it actually turns in the wind.
The Capitol has several exhibits that are open to the public. You can visit a recreation of the State Senate hall as it was in 1912, the year Arizona became a state. There are lots of portraits and works of art to see.
One of the most interesting exhibits is the collection of fancy silver service from the U.S.S. Arizona. They had been removed from the ship in early 1941 when it went into drydock, and then because of the threat of war, kept in storage and not put back aboard. And thus they were not lost with the vessel at Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, but are here for us to see. One of the Arizona's anchors is also a short walk from the Capitol.
The city has some wonderful scenic freeways. When they needed to extend I-10
across town a few years back, they built a tunnel under it rather than tear a
path through the business district.
Here's some live views, either of which may show one of the
tunnel entrances.
This is a nicely decorated section of Loop 101 at Indian School Road
in Scottsdale.
How many times have you heard the expression, "Eat at Joe's"?
They must have been referring to this seafood place in
Mesa that we came across.
This sign has certainly seen better days.
It sure looks like the one seen at the beginning of the TV show
Alice,
which took place in Phoenix. This restaurant is on Grand Avenue,
a block or two southeast of 19th Avenue near the fairgrounds.
This is another view of Phoenix, shot while driving.
Interesting looking power station over by
ASU.
It says
"ARIZONA Public Service" in large letters.
Unfortunately we couldn't get close enough for a good picture of it.
The building with the round thing on top is the
Hyatt Regency Hotel.
There's a rotating restaurant up there.
The other building to the west is the
Bank One Tower.
Since this page is supposed to be ham radio related,
I'll mention that it's the tallest building in Phoenix
and the top is festooned with antennas. Some of them are
FM repeaters from the
ARA.
This is the old
Westward Ho Hotel
building. This once housed
KPHO, the city's
first TV station,
where the famous
Wallace and Ladmo Show began.
This is
Bank One Ballpark, where the
Arizona Diamondbacks play baseball.
Huge doesn't describe it. They say they could fit eight America West Arenas
into this thing; I don't doubt it. It has a retractable roof, real grass field,
air conditioning, a swimming pool, everything a baseball fan could ask for.
Here's another view of it from the south, coming up the viaduct over
the train tracks. Yes, you could actually
take the train to the game,
as they actually did one year.
Another evening comes to the desert,
the last rays of the sun falling
on some
thunderheads
far to the southeast of Gilbert.
On the next pages, you may check out:
the trip to Phoenix,
the Convention,
other places we went in
Arizona
during this trip, and
the return trip to California.
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