Phoenix Then and Now takes 70 vintage photos of the city sustained
by the Salt River and compares them with the same view today
Phoenix's origins date back to 700 AD, when the area, named Pueblo
Grande by the Spanish, was home to a progressive agricultural
community who constructed canal irrigation systems that fed off the
Salt River. The U.S. military sparked the redevelopment of Phoenix
and other towns in the Salt River valley by establishing Fort
McDowell in 1865. Two years later, Jack Swilling of Wickenburg,
Arizona, was traveling on horseback through the region and decided
the desert setting was an ideal place to establish a new community.
The name Phoenix came from the idea that, just like the bird that
rose from the ashes, the new town would spring from the ruins of a
former civilization. Phoenix has grown so rapidly that several
outlying towns have now been absorbed into the metropolitan
district. Tempe started south of the Salt River around 1870,
Mormons started Mesa to the east in 1878, and land developers
founded Glendale in 1892 and Scottsdale in 1894. Phoenix became the
capital of Arizona in 1912. Phoenix Then and Now looks at the
history of development in the city as it continued to grow through
the twentieth century. Using archive photos of the desert town
matched with the same view today, it shows that despite the rapid
expansion, much of the fledgling city has been preserved. Sites
include: Washington Street, First Avenue, City Hall, Heard
Building, Hotel Adams, Luhrs Building, Phoenix Theater, Orpheum
Theater, Hotel San Carlos, Union Station, Masonic Temple, Hotel
Westward Ho, Arizona Capitol, Kenilworth School, Grunow Clinic,
Brophy College, Arizona Biltmore, Tovrea Castle, Tempe Bridges.
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