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Old Posted May 29, 2011, 3:13 PM
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PHX: 365 Days in the Valley

So today I stumbled across the awesome photo blog 365 Days in the Valley which describes itself as:
"CREATED BY AMY BROWN, A PHOENIX BASED PHOTOGRAPHER. THE PROJECT PROVIDES A CREATIVE VISUAL OF PHOENIX/METRO'S OFF THE BEATEN PATH."

I'm not sure how "off the beaten path" some of these locales are as they're on Central Avenue, the path of paths here, but there still lovely photo's that give a nice, new, unique look at life in our desert Valley.

Here's a random sampling of some of my favorite photos from there:


Barry Goldwater memorial statue near Camelback Mountain, Paradise Valley


Hinkley's lighting, North Central Ave



Revolver Records, Roosevelt Row


Cheese N' Stuff, North Central Ave


Beefeaters sign, 300 W Camelback. This was formerly an upscale restaurant, now its deteriorating into waste.


Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, new Spring home of the AZ Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies


Tempe Town Lake bladder dam


Town of Gilbert water tower. Water towers are everywhere in the midwest but are a rare sight in AZ where we get our water via canals.


Tempe Center for the Arts


Joe's Real BBQ, Gilbert


Leisure World, gated retirement community in Mesa


Vaquero's Carne Asada, Mesa


Hambone bar in Mesa, open at 6am!


A Paradise Valley mansion


Building in Downtown Chandler


A shrine sits in front of this Chandler home


the sun-bleached "Sun Bright" corner in Old North Phoenix is becoming quite the happening place


The Bridle Path, North Central Ave


Walter The Bus


Renaissance Square, Downtown Phoenix


Downtown on an empty morning


Arizona Puppet Theater


Cluttered front yard in Maryvale


Clarendon Hotel, Midtown Phoenix. It was on the street in front of this Hotel where AZ Republic reporter Don Bolles as murdered in his car by a bomb placed by the mafia.


Casey Moore's Oyster House, Tempe


Boutique's in Uptown Phoenix


The brutalist Wells Fargo Tower, Downtown Phoenix


Outdoor ice skating in the desert on a 70 degree day


Old County Courthouse, Downtown PHX


new pedestrian bridge/sun dial in Downtown Scottsdale by famed architect/visionary/cooke Paolo Soleri


Catholic Vietnamese Church, NW Phoenix


Downtown house that loves the USA


The Madhouse on McDowell



Greenbelt near Tempe/Scottsdale border


The Shackelford House. The last remaining mansion of what used to be a "Millionare's Row" along Central Ave


Gun shop in Scottsdale


Citrus Warehouse, Mesa


Power Plant & Sunset, Tempe


St Mary's, Tempe


Idylwilde Park, Central Phoenix


Date Palm sunset over Arcadia neighborhood in East Phoenix


Memorial Hall on the site of the old Phoenix Indian School, Central Phoenix


Durant's, this legendary Central Ave steakhouse was once the hangout of local mobsters


One of the many mural's along Calle 16




Duppa House. This adobe hut was the home of Englishman Darrell Duppa who named both Phoenix and Tempe


Governor Hunt, the 1st Governor of AZ is buried under this pyramid. He was an amateur Egyptologist and alleged sun worshiper, hence the odd tomb.


Papago Park with Camelback Mountain in the distance


Papago Lagoon


Monti's Steakhouse and the flour Mill on Mill Ave, Tempe


Frank Lloyd Wright's Gammage Auditorium, Tempe


United Church of Christ, Central Phoenix


University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale. Home to the AZ Cardinals


a dirty hippie's van in Tempe


Encanto Park Lagoon, Central Phoenix. The Midtown office towers can be seen in the distance


Historic Orpheum Theater with the new Phoenix City Hall rising in the background


Agave Library, designed by local Starchitect Will Bruder. Happy Valley, AZ


South Phoenix is still pock marked with working farms, ranches & vineyards


Arizona: home to the world's best sunsets


Farmland and a canal on the Salt River Indian reservation


Sunnyslope Rock Garden


Midtown Phoenix Skyline


This historic Glendale neighborhood always reminds me of the episode of the Twilight Zone "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"


Clifftop Condos, Sunnyslope


One of Phoenix's most recognized landmark signs


Mr Lucky's, formerly a popular Honkey Tonk bar, now abandoned


Monsoon over Phoenix


Grandvelt. The corner of Roosevelt and Grand (Grandvelt) is beginning to go through a renaissance


The awesome Mid Century Modern "Valley Ho" hotel in Scottsdale


Shrine in Guadalupe


The Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse. One of the worst buildings ever, its giant glass forms make it impossible to cool and its a super block that kills downtown. Thanks Richard Meier.


a summer night on a canal


Lee's Oriental Rock Garden near Camelback Mountain, Phoenix


Phoenix's oldest house, from 1879.


Sugar Beet factory, Glendale. This building now sits empty waiting a re-use.


Bikini Lounge, from 1947, an original Tiki bar.


Brophy College Prep Chapel, Central Phoenix


"Praying Monk" rock formation on Camelback Mountain


No explanation needed here...


Chihuly at the Desert Botanical Garden


Scorpion Gulch, a fake old west town built by eccentric Bill Lundsford in the 30's near South Mountain


Mystery Castle, South Mountain


Arizona LDS Temple, Mesa


The Farm at South Mountain


House in the Alvarado District, Midtown Phoenix


Sapna Cafe (now sadly closed) in the old Braggs Pie Factory on Grand Ave, Phoenix


The head of Camelback and the Praying Monk


Lola Coffee, Roosevelt District, Downtown Phoenix


The "haunted" San Carlos Hotel, Downtown Phoenix


An awesome adaptive re-use of a vintage gas station, Copper Star Coffee in the Melrose District of Midtown Phoenix


Sahuaro Ranch Park, Glendale


Phoenix Children's Museum (interior), Downtown Phoenix


eery shot of Downtown. The horizontal Federal building in the front can be seen quite a bit in the terrible Clint Eastwood movie "The Gauntlet"


Aldea at Tlaquepaque, West Phoenix


palm lined street, Roosevelt District, Downtown


1st Baptist Church, Downtown. Now missing its roof and most of its interior due to a fire its awaiting re-use.


Solar Array, Peoria.


Industrial sunset, Laveen.


Rail bridges, old and new, over Tempe Town Lake


Tempe Center for the Arts


The Westward Ho. For many years the tallest building in Phoenix and its most glamorous hotel, its now HUD housing for Seniors. Downtown Phoenix.


Arizona Falls, a small hydroelectric power station on the Canal in Arcadia (East Phoenix)

Anyway, I thought Ms. Browns photo's were interesting, hope you did too. She seems to enjoy eschewing the presence of human life in most of her pictures which gives them a somewhat creepy and suspended in time feeling.
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Old Posted Jun 7, 2011, 12:38 PM
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The photographer seems to like 1950's &1960's kitsch! Interesting pics.
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Old Posted Jun 7, 2011, 4:12 PM
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I looked around her blog for a while when you posted the link in the SW section... She posted pics of many buildings I didn't know existed (in Gilbert/Chandler/Mesa), and has a good eye for other interesting things in all parts of Phoenix. BTW, the Agave Branch Library isn't in "Happy Valley, AZ"... not sure why she'd put that. It's in far north Phoenix, for sure, but it's not even on Happy Valley Road, it's just off of Pinnacle Peak Road.
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