Summer Fun At The Round Up

[DrAkbar]

As Alice Cooper reminds us...School's out for summer! So let's pile into the Gremlin and take in a movie at the Round Up Drive In while being blasted by 52 watts of KAZG radiation. If it's too hot, then enjoy a refershing dip in the nearby canal. Popcorn is on Los Buckeye Boyz!

 

[Legend City]

Somewhere in the BBC Archives there is a great podcast story from Bart Bull, who used to write for New Times, a long time ago, about the stolen head of the cowboy. And the ransom request by him not to return it until Channel 5 resumed Andy Griffith at noon.

Found it! BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Neon Cowboy

 

[DrAkbar]

First he lost his head, then he lost himself in Flagstaff. Maybe someone could talk Bob Boze Bell into finding the Neon Cowboy and return him to the West's Most Midwestern Town.

A tip of the fez to Legend City for locating the podcast. Must hear audio for all Media Hut students and fans!

 

[davideduardo]

First he lost his head, then he lost himself in Flagstaff. Maybe someone could talk Bob Boze Bell into finding the Neon Cowboy and return him to the West's Most Midwestern Town.

Ah, the labels for Phoenix. When I moved there in 1972 my mother's family in Ohio asked if it was because I had tuberculosis.

Over the next decade, the northerners caught the fever and moved there, bringing grass and deciduous trees with them.

 

[kwthom]

Over the next decade, the northerners caught the fever and moved there, bringing grass and deciduous trees with them.

I thought it started happening shortly after the war.

Arizona Population 1900-2024

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the state of Arizona from 1900 to 2024.

www.macrotrends.net

 

[landtuna]

My Mother's family had resettled to the Phoenix area in the 1930's but the major influx of other people came about after the end of WWII and with the widespread adoption of refrigeration. Hundreds of thousands of GI's were brought to the desert southwest prior to and during the war. When the war ended they flocked to Phoenix and Tucson to buy relatively cheap houses and raise their families in the near perfect weather. In my Tucson neighborhood most of the families had fathers who were still in the armed forces or were war veterans.

We'd had evaporative coolers earlier but they didn't work too well during the rainy season. When A/C became popular homes and businesses moved indoors during the hot months and the annual summer migration to the cool mountains ended.

Arizona was growing so quickly that my schools from 1st to 10th grades were all on double or triple sessions. I never attended anything other than a brand new school until my family move to the Bay Area in 1960. Tucson's population in 1950 was 50,000. In 1960 it was around 200,000 and the growth hasn't stopped. Phoenix exploded even faster.

 

[davideduardo]

I thought it started happening shortly after the war.

Arizona Population 1900-2024

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the state of Arizona from 1900 to 2024.

www.macrotrends.net

Remember, the population in the early 70's had barely passed one million and KRIZ on 1240 covered the whole market? The huge growth I refer to came right after that.

 

[DrAkbar]

Remember, the population in the early 70's had barely passed one million and KRIZ on 1240 covered the whole market? The huge growth I refer to came right after that.

KRIZ 12~Thirty, but who's splitting hairs? - they're both graveyard frequencies. And back in the day of the Round Up, KRIZ was pumping out 250 watts of music pow-pow-power at night. The crack house on Buckeye Road still serves as the xmttr site for what is now known as KOY.

 

[davideduardo]

The crack house on Buckeye Road still serves as the xmttr site for what is now known as KOY.

Which crack house? You make it seem like there was just one.

 

[XMportable]

I was just born in Phoenix, 1970 🤓