Where is the 30 foot blonde?
I thought it would be fun to take some pictures of well-known places in the Valley of the Sun and make a quiz page. This is it.
Here are pictures of different places in the Phoenix area. The selection criteria is that they be 1. distinctive, 2. well known (have been around for a bunch of years), and 3. not identified with signs or names.
Click in the thumbnails for a larger picture. So how many can you identify and where are they?
Some unique places in the Valley of the Sun
1. This should be easy. Where is the sign with the 30 foot 'pinup' blonde?
2. This is a cool sign - I have always liked it. I think the guy is saying "Get out or you are in big trouble". Where is it?
3. If you where in Phoenix in the 1960s and 70s, all you need to know are the words 'White Knight". Where is this building and what is it called?
4. In 2000 I went around the Valley trying to find and take a picture of every old, interesting house. I took this picture then. In 2006 look what happened. Where was it?
5. I saw this one go up in the 1960s, about 2 blocks from where I lived. It was the futuristic design popular at the time. Where is it?
6. I drive under this everyday. I think the official name is "The What the Heck Monument." Where is it?
7. Once in a while I check on this old house. I have been watching it for many years. In 2003 I stopped and talked to the folks living there. It was one big pension-type house full of people, few of which spoke any English. I think this is the third oldest surviving house in Phoenix, and the only one still in use - at that time. Where is it? What is it called?
8. This is easy. Another traditional Valley landmark.
9. A unique-looking building. Where is it?
10. New York, Vegas and Phoenix. Where is the statue of Liberty?
11. Paul Bunyan? So where is this Lumberjack?
12. Not the most elegant house in Phoenix, but an important one. Where is it, or better, who may have lived here? Looking at the second (green) thumbnail is cheating!
13. Another famous landmark, built by an excentric man back in the 1930s.
Answers
And the answers are - in no particular order:
1. 20th Street and Indian School, northside.
2. 24th Street, just south of Roosevelt
3. The Green Gables. Anybody remember the white knight sitting on a horse, a real horse? 16th Street and Indian School.
4. This is a hard one. There was an old house at 35th St on McDowell. Been there for years. In 2006 it went byebye.
5. The old Valley Bank branch office in Tempe, now part of ASU. Apache and Rural.
6. The 'Miracle Mile' monument, or as most people call it: "What is that all about?". 16th and McDowell.
7. The Jones residence, I believe. Buckeye and 12th Street, north side. It was occupied and used up to about 2003.
8. The Flower Mill - no, the Flour Mill at Hayden's Butte. Mill Ave and the Salt River. The Silos are behind the building and not visible.
9. The Old IBM building, I think. It is suppossed to look like a computer punched card, I am told. Central Ave and Osborn.
10. The statue of Liberty is on 7th Avenye, in front of a house on the West corner of Palm in the Encanto-Palmcroft neighborhood.
11. The 24 foot (?) statue of the Lumberjack can be found at 15th Avenue and Broadway Road in Phoenix.
12. The Duppa House. Remember this guy was a noble - blue blood - but even for a minor noble living in a mud hut was a comedown. Duppa was the educated English lord that gave names to both Phoenix and Tempe. He got the Phoenix name right but was drunk on the day he named Tempe. Lord Duppa looked out over the desert landscape of the Salt River Valley and said it reminded him of the green rolling hills of Tempe in Greece. Yeah, right!
13. Mystery Castle. Down at the end of Central Ave, just East of the entrance to South Mountain Park. There are even tours of the place.
1. This should be easy. Where is the sign with the 30 foot 'pinup' blonde?
2. This is a cool sign - I have always liked it. I think the guy is saying "Get out or you are in big trouble". Where is it? 
3. If you where in Phoenix in the 1960s and 70s, all you need to know are the words 'White Knight". Where is this building and what is it called?
4. In 2000 I went around the Valley trying to find and take a picture of every old, interesting house. I took this picture then. In 2006 look what happened. Where was it? 
5. I saw this one go up in the 1960s, about 2 blocks from where I lived. It was the futuristic design popular at the time. Where is it?
6. I drive under this everyday. I think the official name is "The What the Heck Monument." Where is it?
7. Once in a while I check on this old house. I have been watching it for many years. In 2003 I stopped and talked to the folks living there. It was one big pension-type house full of people, few of which spoke any English. I think this is the third oldest surviving house in Phoenix, and the only one still in use - at that time. Where is it? What is it called?
8. This is easy. Another traditional Valley landmark. 
9. A unique-looking building. Where is it?
10. New York, Vegas and Phoenix. Where is the statue of Liberty?
11. Paul Bunyan? So where is this Lumberjack? 
12. Not the most elegant house in Phoenix, but an important one. Where is it, or better, who may have lived here? Looking at the second (green) thumbnail is cheating!
13. Another famous landmark, built by an excentric man back in the 1930s.