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Jun. 2nd, 2008 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumRemember how in the 70's documentary they built the Lakes and I thought "holy shit I live there now?"
In the 50's documentary they showed a picture captioned "44th Street and Thomas" and it was like a telephone pole and a dirt road. That was where my first apartment was.
To be fair, the documentary did reach back into the 40's for that photo. And yet, at that early time, Phoenix already reached as far east as 44th Street. At 8 "streets" per mile, that's five and a half miles. I thought that was impressive, but then I realized that the city was mostly farmland at the time, and thus there's a lot of padding.
In the 50's documentary they showed a picture captioned "44th Street and Thomas" and it was like a telephone pole and a dirt road. That was where my first apartment was.
To be fair, the documentary did reach back into the 40's for that photo. And yet, at that early time, Phoenix already reached as far east as 44th Street. At 8 "streets" per mile, that's five and a half miles. I thought that was impressive, but then I realized that the city was mostly farmland at the time, and thus there's a lot of padding.
