HistoryHistory: Francophile Fix
Bygone hot spot Navarre’s offered Phoenicians their first taste of crudités, vichyssoise and flaming cherries jubilee in an elegant Uptown setting for more than three decades.
Bygone hot spot Navarre’s offered Phoenicians their first taste of crudités, vichyssoise and flaming cherries jubilee in an elegant Uptown setting for more than three decades.
The launch of the world-class Phoenix Zoo was a homespun affair conceived by a wildlife conservationist with links to the Maytag Man.
Long ago, before snapping selfies with friends was a thing, revelers took something else to remember a night on the town.
Mining magnate William Boyce Thompson founded the world’s first botanical garden dedicated to arid species 100 years ago near Superior, Arizona.
Professional magician Bert Easley’s novelty shop and its collection of tricks, gags and costumes created fun times in Phoenix for 72 years.
A prestigious New York City jeweler sent Holocaust survivor Samuel Soldinger to Chandler to teach Native Americans the art of diamond cutting.
Surplus grapefruits in the Valley during the Great Depression led to a locally produced soda with purported health benefits that found nationwide success – and launched a thousand cocktails.
Little more than a decade after the game’s invention, college hoops officially arrived in the desert. The sport looked a lot different in 1904 than it does today.
A swanky midcentury nightspot called The Flame set Downtown Phoenix ablaze with fine dining and dancing until it met a suspicious – and fiery, natch – demise.
Having escaped a World War II POW camp, two dozen German sailors became fugitives in the Arizona desert.
Rancho Linda Vista near Oracle evolved from a rustic Hollywood retreat into a freewheeling 1960s art commune.
A Missouri charlatan created a bogus 12-million-acre estate in Territorial Arizona via the forgery skills and a duplicitous marriage.
Development-averse Paradise Valley finally finds a home-building project that meets its fastidious standards.
In 1964, Buster Bonoff brought star-studded musicals to Phoenix by adaptively reusing a futuristic building to launch what would become the Celebrity Theatre.
An Italian architect and a video-game-crazed Valley developer bring a touch of Nintendo to Roosevelt Row.