Douglas Towne, Author at PHOENIX magazine

LifestyleMalfunction Junctions

The bygone Arizona hamlets of Hightown, Weedville and Norton’s Corner had unusual names – and even more unusual histories.

Phoenix labors to fix its leaky water pipes during a decades-long drought.

The Phoenix Racquets of World Team Tennis smashed overheads and sports barriers during their successful run in the mid-1970s.

KNIX’s 50 years of broadcasting country music as one of the nation’s top stations has been one wild hayride

The Central Arizona Project celebrates its 50th Anniversary while facing a drought that may impact 80 percent of the population.

For two decades beginning in 1963, Tucson was ringed by 18 missile silos with enough combined might to trigger a nuclear apocalypse.

A former Route 66 diner near Roosevelt Row creates an atmosphere that stimulates appetites, conversation and nostalgia.

In 1927, the nation sank its fangs into the real-life drama of a Hollywood lion stranded in Arizona’s Rim Country.

Nostalgic motorists are rediscovering U.S. 80, a historic southern Arizona highway that has long been overshadowed by Route 66.

A scandalous financing scheme at the Security Building went untold for 50 years after the Downtown building opened in 1928.