time warp - Tempe, AZ 1980/81

[racinchef]

Talk about a day late and a dollar short. These pics are from a trips made while my family visited my oldest sister living in Arizona at the time. She graduated from ASU and I was six months out of the Army and this was our Christmas/New Year's celebration el grande. My Christmas gift from my parents was money to rent this Yamaha XS400. The picture is along Interstate 17 near Pioneer City, a historic old west tourist attraction.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m61/stilwater225/YamahaXS400.jpg

The next photo is of Apache Junction and the Superstitious Mountains.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m61/stilwater225/ArizonaApacheJunction.jpg

The next picture is of Theodore Roosevelt Lake along Highway 88.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m61/stilwater225/ArizonaRooseveltDamjpg.jpg

This last picture is somewhere between Apache Junction and Globe along either highway 88 or 60.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m61/stilwater225/ArizonaRooseveltDam2.jpg

A third trip I made on the bike but don't have pictures of is down Interstate 10 to Tuscon to visit my mother's brother. The family rode in the car. I still can remember hitting 100 mph on the speedometer at night coming back to Tempe

[Top Cat]

Bruce, there musta been something wrong with your camera, all thise pics came out in Black & White. ;)

It's kinda appropriate for the barren landscape. Black & White film seems to enhance the bleak nature and desolation of the desert.

[cactusjack]

That bridge picture looks like the old bridge along Roosevelt Lake near the dam. Since replaced with a huge arch bridge. That would be on Hwy 188. There's no bridge like that on US60 between AJ and Globe.

You probably wouldn't recognize Apache Junction today. It used to sit by itself at the foothills of the Superstition Mountains. Now it blends into Mesa to the West and Gold Canyon to the East.

Nice pics, Bruce. I appreciate it.

[racinchef]

That bridge picture looks like the old bridge along Roosevelt Lake near the dam. Since replaced with a huge arch bridge. That would be on Hwy 188. There's no bridge like that on US60 between AJ and Globe.

You probably wouldn't recognize Apache Junction today. It used to sit by itself at the foothills of the Superstition Mountains. Now it blends into Mesa to the West and Gold Canyon to the East.

Nice pics, Bruce. I appreciate it.

I thought that's where the bridge was at, but I just can't remember for sure. Glad you enjoyed it.

[racinchef]

Bruce, there musta been something wrong with your camera, all thise pics came out in Black & White. ;)

I was into photography and purposely bought a fully manual Olympus 35MM camera. I tried doing black and white film from time to time.

[cheriann]

WOW! What nice pictures! Good ole' memories, huh?!

[csguru]

Ansel Adams was his teacher.


** For those of you that aren't familiar with him Ansel he was one of the all time great photographers who specialized in B & W photography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams

http://www.anseladams.com/