Tucson has always been Paradise.
--- In vanishingtucson@..., Bjay <groups@b...> wrote:
Hi Everyone!
I'm a Tucson native (more or less, born in Nogales) and got to
enjoy
Tucson growing up in the 70's and 80's. I was (and still am) a
serious
drive-in patron - guilty of cramming people into the trunk -
especially
at the Apache Drive-In, the De Anza., and the Tucson Drive-In
(movies
were always interrupted by a rattling train). And yes, often, we'd
have
a bag of Pat's chili-dogs or from Shari's Drive-in (still around!)
I remember a Rodeo or Fiesta Drive-in, but I think they played
Mexican
movies that were, ugh, raunchy. I couldn't go there.
I went to schools in the Amphi district until my freshman year in
high
school then finished up high school at Sunnyside in 1986. At that
time
Sunnyside was open, with big windows in the classrooms and lots of
trees
and grass. Recently I have found they have bricked in the windows,
cemented the grounds, and put up a huge prison-like fence.
My friends would go to the illegals (I was never allowed) or we
would
just go to the "river" and party. Nowadays, I'd be too paranoid to
do
that.
Me and my girlfriends used to drive out around the Desert Museum at
night, and go park in the desert and gab. Again, I'd be way to
paranoid
to do that.
Tucson has NEVER been a paradise, but times were certainly simpler
and
not much to be afraid of. I think it's too bad my 4-year-old will
never
get to know THAT Tucson - just the one with too much traffic,
mass-produced homes, and awful senseless crime. Someone needs to
start
a another group called Take Back Tucson!!
Nice to meet you guys!
--
Ciao!
Elizabeth "Bjay" Woolley
Editor, Diabetic Mommy Online Magazine
