The course across from Magic Carpet was called Green Acres. I think the name changed later on, but I can't remember what it changed to. We used to go there for the arcade. <<<<<<
It was owned by the same people who had Oracle Acres on Oracle Road just south of Prince. I spent many hours at that place. It had pinball machines too, and there was a baseball game that was easy to get free replays on.
Another topic: Old gas stations. My first paying job was at Dana Brothers Shamrock at Campbell Avenue and Blacklidge Drive. It was odd because it wasn't a major intersection, but there was a gas station on all four corners. On the southwest corner was Dana Bros., on the northwest was Richfield, on the southeast was Chevron (aka Standard), and on the northeast was another; I forget which brand (Enco?).
When I first moved here, there was a Signal Gas station on the northwest corner of First Avenue and Prince, near where I lived (a poor-folks trailer court with the pretentious name of Elms Mobile Home Estates). First Avenue was a two-lane road with so little traffic that one time a neighbor girl lay down in the middle of the road until she could hear a car coming.
There was a little Dixie station farther west on Prince, and a little bit east was a little station called Gas for Less. And of course a lot of people remember Blakeley's. Rebel, on East Fort Lowell, was a cut-rate station that was so cheap that they didn't bother to bury the fuel-storage tank.
Kerry
