Quote:
Originally Posted by The North One
Yes it did as clearly shown by the photos in the OP.
|
Most of the buildings in those photos are still downtown and occupied, People are looking back on pre ww2 Phoenix with rose-colored glasses.
It was a couple of blocks of a busy town center. Calling it a "bustling" downtown is just a-historical.
You could argue that it lost its retail traffic as many main streets did but it never lost employment or tore down office buildings or apartment blocks. Most of our "urban renewal" was the tear down of single family homes outside of the "downtown" What was once some single or two story retail buildings were replaced with modern office towers.
The pictures on the last page show the absolute extent of the pre ww2 city and it wasn't much at all, as you would expect for a small agricultural based city.