Born and raised in Mesa in 1951 and a lifelong resident. I miss the massive orange groves in east Mesa where every spring you smelled the orange blossoms for miles and what about the Japanese flower gardens by South Mountain?
I now live in Apache Junction in a 60s ranch style home and the unchecked growth is slowly starting to strangle us too.

It’s amazing to see how my city grew from a small desert town to the 5th largest city in the US. A lot of the buildings in that video are still there. But Phoenix today is absolutely unrecognizable.

My dad was a milk man from 1962 to 1967, I used to go on his route to homes in the summers sometimes. He would just walk into people's unlocked doors with no one home.  He made a lot of money doing this.  I loved growing up in Phx in the 60s and 70s.

My parents moved here in 1963 I was 10 years old ,went Tavan Elm. school and Arcadia High . Who remember Thomas Mall ?

My family moved from St. Louis to Phoenix in 1962. I was a third grader and was so thrilled to live in Phoenix. We could play outside year around and go swimming in the hot summer months. Everything was so new to us and we sure made use of every opportunity to try a new and fun adventure. I live in Texas now and somehow still miss Arizona, at least the Arizona of the 1960s.

Who still loves Arizona??😀👍🌵🌵🏜️🏜️🏜️🏜️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Truly at the tail end of the "good old days" in America .

"Good afternoon, It's hotter tf in Phoenix"

Our sunsets are so beautiful! Love Arizona!

and now the open land is a Phoenix suburb.

I love vintage films about Arizona 🌵 🌞

Born and raised in az ! Love this place

Born in Phoenix in 1960. Raised in Sunnyslope. In the 60 and 70 it was a nice place to live. Things change

Yep my family started Phoenix in the 70ties,  my childhood memories are so much different than how its ran today...  miss my out door swap meets

Moved to az in 89 crazy to watch a video 14 yrs before I was even born wow.....

That Indian chief shop is awesome!!!!

60s would have been a fun time to be alive not one cell phone in site every one just paying attention to the sites! 😀

Can't believe how much Phoenix has changed and grown over the last 50 years amazing, I knew it  would be a desert metropolis.

I was born in 94, I would have loved to see my city during this time

Nice documentry on Phoenix Arizona.  too bad the haters in the comments had to ruin it for everybody.

Yeah back when everyone drove the same direction on the freeway.

The good ol’ days 😢😢😢