I have been trying to recall the name of a Mexican food restaurant about a half mile North or maybe South of McDowell on the East side of Central Ave in an old house during the early 1960’s. Can anyone help?
Does anyone remember the name of the record store chain that sold new and used record album’s one was downtown Phoenix another was in Tempe
I wonder what the reaction is going to be after ALL the $$ that has been spent on flood protection proves to NOT work as well as the public was sold on it.
If I’m remembering the same place, it was mainly a patio area surrounded by oleanders. I don’t remember the name or the stabbing, lol.
I remember Isaac Newtons’s Notorious Falling Apple Saloon on Rural near the ASU campus in Tempe. I’m Luke Allison and I bought it with Ray Fluharty in 1976from Paul Yamaluk. My favorite entertainer was Hans Olsen and who can forget Nefertiti the belly-dancer with the boa constrictor on Tuesday nights. Sky Blue Water was the band we booked the most. They were in the middle of a Skynard tune one night when a woman called to say there was a bomb in the bar. I grabbed what I thought might be a clear pill bottle of nitro behind the band and walked out front wondering if it would blow me to pieces. Turned out it was the guitar player’s glass slide piece. I raced back inside and placed it back on the top of his amp just as he reached for it. My competition was the Blue Goat Pub, Professor Pudgies, Varsity Inn, Fridays and Saturdays, the dreaded disco from the Sun Devil Lounge and finally Dooleys on Apache which buried me financially before the Tempe zoning board decided we were no longer welcome and pulled our license. Any of you who came to Newtons will remember the spotlight I shined on the dance floor and the gorilla arm wrestling frat boys. The Suns stole the idea for the gorilla from ME! I believe we may have invented “Drink and Drown” nights too. $10 at the door and all the well booze and keg beer you could drink. Our bouncers usually had to mace a customer or two during those drunkfests. If you lived in Tempe during the mid-70’s you likely spent a night or two at Isaac Newtons. Thanks. 🙂
some of my friends used to minibike at the pits on the road between Northern and Shea. Also Evan Mecham ran for governor when 
I was a kid in the 60’s. There was a cop station in Sunnyslope on the canal and Central.
It was not Woody’s, which was on West McDowell
I remember some of my friends going mini biking at “the pits” by where northern turned north towards Shea. Also there was.a police station on central and the canal by Northern, and across the street from there was an old hotel with a pool in front of it which closed down quickly.
The cop station on central and the canal between Dunlap and Northern. Just across Central was an old hotel with a pool in front which was torn down not long after I first noticed it. The giant slide on 7th street and Dunlap. My friends used to go to where Dreamy Draw park is now, just off the old Northern where it turned north to Shea, to ride mini bikes in a giant excavated area they called the pits. I lived just south of Sunnyslope area by 3rd ave. and Butler.