Cloud 9

[gotpower]

Anyone ever hear of this place? I can remember my brother speaking of this "Monster Hill" where everyone had a tough time making it up. I thought it was at the salt river area near BPB.

[probable cause]

there's a trail called monster hill out in the white tanks thats the only one i know of

[Clay]

I thought cloud 9 was the name of the restaurant up on Shaw Butte that you got to from about 19th avenue and Cholla. Needed a four wheel drive to get up there. Burned one evening because the fire department could not get up there to put the fire out. I have been and seen the foundation. When I was in high school about thirty years ago, it burned down. A neighbor wanted to go up in a landcruiser but chickened out when he saw the trail. Not allowed to drive up there these days.

[TwistedXJ]

there's a trail called monster hill out in the white tanks thats the only one i know of

I will be takin the XJ up it after the lockers and gears, maybe this time I won't be a :baby: about it like last time.

[weasel_ugs]

I thought cloud 9 was the name of the restaurant up on Shaw Butte that you got to from about 19th avenue and Cholla. Needed a four wheel drive to get up there. Burned one evening because the fire department could not get up there to put the fire out. I have been and seen the foundation. When I was in high school about thirty years ago, it was burned down. A neighbor wanted to go up in a landcruiser but chickened out when he saw the trail. Not allowed to drive up there these days.

What he said. Don

[Wayco]

We used to walk our bikes up to this restaurant back in the '60's. It was a paved road back then. Lots of fun coasting down. It did burn down. No access now.

[gotpower]

I knew you guys would come through with the answer!!!!!!!

[TwistedXJ]

any pictures of tis from back in the day?

[Steve Peterson]

The start of the road is the end of 15th ave north of peoria. Back in the early 70's my brother drove a old rambler station wagon up there. That was before there were the big potholes. When I was young we spent the night up there & I can still remember seeing the old Goodyear sign that was on the freeway south of thomas.

Wayco you had to have big ones to coast down that road on a bicycle. I did it once & was worried that I would not have brakes by the time I got to the bottom.

http://azfoo.net/places/az/phoenix/shawbutte/013_12_Cloud9.html

[gotpower]

sounds like some of you are natives as I am....what else do you remember??? I know when I was young (er) I can remember pretty much everything north of cactus being desert.....My mom and dad tell me most anything past 43rd ave was desert when they moved here.....

[Billy 4 hp]

sounds like some of you are natives as I am....what else do you remember??? I know when I was young (er) I can remember pretty much everything north of cactus being desert.....My mom and dad tell me most anything past 43rd ave was desert when they moved here.....

Well, I am not a native, but I do remember when we lived here in 1974 that we were in the boonies... Rattlesnakes in the backyard, scorpion's in the dog's water dish and when the neighbor's horse would get loose, it would come over and stick it's head through your bedroom window (I was 4 yrs old, my parents thought I was nutz until they actually saw it one night)...

Back then you could actually sleep with your window open and not fear a home invasion...

So it was 1974, we lived at 35th avenue and Bell Road....

Everything to the north was desert and so was most things to the south....

:eek:

[Wayco]

The start of the road is the end of 15th ave north of peoria. Back in the early 70's my brother drove a old rambler station wagon up there. That was before there were the big potholes. When I was young we spent the night up there & I can still remember seeing the old Goodyear sign that was on the freeway south of thomas.

Wayco you had to have big ones to coast down that road on a bicycle. I did it once & was worried that I would not have brakes by the time I got to the bottom.

http://azfoo.net/places/az/phoenix/shawbutte/013_12_Cloud9.html

Funny you would say that, we did stop doing it after a friend lost it on one of the sharp turns. He survived, but it was not pretty.
I have lots of stories about growing up in Phoenix, starting in a home at 35th ave. and Indian School. It was outside the city limits at that time. We would play in the irrigation ditches, until we saw a snake swimming along.... :aagh:

[TwistedXJ]

man I am too young to remember that but I wsh I was living back then must have been nice.

[DanFelix]

AAAhhhhh, I remember when 19th Ave and Northern was considered "out of town"...

[Steve Peterson]

When we moved out here they widened Indian School to 4 lanes. 15th ave was dirt north of Indian School. Remember 15th Ave south of Thomas by Encanto park were the first reverse lanes, 3 lane road. South bound signs said AM this lane OK PM do not use.

[gotpower]

what about Legend City??? or the drive in at 43rd and Indian school that showed dirty movies???

[Steve Peterson]

what about Legend City??? or the drive in at 43rd and Indian school that showed dirty movies???

That was the Big Sky drive in. They also showed horror movies like the ones with Jane Fonda. :) We went to the Rodeo or Nu-View drive in because it was cheaper. $2.50 a car load. Cinema Park at 7th & Missouri, Indian School drive in 27th & Indian. Miss the old days.