SkyscraperPage Forum - PHX: 365 Days in the Valley

So today I stumbled across the awesome photo blog 365 Days in the Valley which describes itself as:
"CREATED BY AMY BROWN, A PHOENIX BASED PHOTOGRAPHER. THE PROJECT PROVIDES A CREATIVE VISUAL OF PHOENIX/METRO'S OFF THE BEATEN PATH."

I'm not sure how "off the beaten path" some of these locales are as they're on Central Avenue, the path of paths here, but there still lovely photo's that give a nice, new, unique look at life in our desert Valley.

Here's a random sampling of some of my favorite photos from there:

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Barry Goldwater memorial statue near Camelback Mountain, Paradise Valley

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Hinkley's lighting, North Central Ave

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Revolver Records, Roosevelt Row

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Cheese N' Stuff, North Central Ave

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Beefeaters sign, 300 W Camelback. This was formerly an upscale restaurant, now its deteriorating into waste.

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Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, new Spring home of the AZ Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies

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Tempe Town Lake bladder dam

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Town of Gilbert water tower. Water towers are everywhere in the midwest but are a rare sight in AZ where we get our water via canals.

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Tempe Center for the Arts

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Joe's Real BBQ, Gilbert

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Leisure World, gated retirement community in Mesa

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Vaquero's Carne Asada, Mesa

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Hambone bar in Mesa, open at 6am!

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A Paradise Valley mansion

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Building in Downtown Chandler

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A shrine sits in front of this Chandler home

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the sun-bleached "Sun Bright" corner in Old North Phoenix is becoming quite the happening place

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The Bridle Path, North Central Ave

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Walter The Bus

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Renaissance Square, Downtown Phoenix

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Downtown on an empty morning

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Arizona Puppet Theater

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Cluttered front yard in Maryvale

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Clarendon Hotel, Midtown Phoenix. It was on the street in front of this Hotel where AZ Republic reporter Don Bolles as murdered in his car by a bomb placed by the mafia.

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Casey Moore's Oyster House, Tempe

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Boutique's in Uptown Phoenix

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The brutalist Wells Fargo Tower, Downtown Phoenix

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Outdoor ice skating in the desert on a 70 degree day

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Old County Courthouse, Downtown PHX

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new pedestrian bridge/sun dial in Downtown Scottsdale by famed architect/visionary/cooke Paolo Soleri

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Catholic Vietnamese Church, NW Phoenix

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Downtown house that loves the USA

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The Madhouse on McDowell

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Greenbelt near Tempe/Scottsdale border

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The Shackelford House. The last remaining mansion of what used to be a "Millionare's Row" along Central Ave

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Gun shop in Scottsdale

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Citrus Warehouse, Mesa

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Power Plant & Sunset, Tempe

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St Mary's, Tempe

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Idylwilde Park, Central Phoenix

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Date Palm sunset over Arcadia neighborhood in East Phoenix

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Memorial Hall on the site of the old Phoenix Indian School, Central Phoenix

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Durant's, this legendary Central Ave steakhouse was once the hangout of local mobsters

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One of the many mural's along Calle 16

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Duppa House. This adobe hut was the home of Englishman Darrell Duppa who named both Phoenix and Tempe

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Governor Hunt, the 1st Governor of AZ is buried under this pyramid. He was an amateur Egyptologist and alleged sun worshiper, hence the odd tomb.

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Papago Park with Camelback Mountain in the distance

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Papago Lagoon

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Monti's Steakhouse and the flour Mill on Mill Ave, Tempe

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Gammage Auditorium, Tempe

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United Church of Christ, Central Phoenix

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University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale. Home to the AZ Cardinals

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a dirty hippie's van in Tempe

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Encanto Park Lagoon, Central Phoenix. The Midtown office towers can be seen in the distance

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Historic Orpheum Theater with the new Phoenix City Hall rising in the background

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Agave Library, designed by local Starchitect Will Bruder. Happy Valley, AZ

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South Phoenix is still pock marked with working farms, ranches & vineyards

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Arizona: home to the world's best sunsets

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Farmland and a canal on the Salt River Indian reservation

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Sunnyslope Rock Garden

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Midtown Phoenix Skyline

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This historic Glendale neighborhood always reminds me of the episode of the Twilight Zone "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"

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Clifftop Condos, Sunnyslope

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One of Phoenix's most recognized landmark signs

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Mr Lucky's, formerly a popular Honkey Tonk bar, now abandoned

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Monsoon over Phoenix

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Grandvelt. The corner of Roosevelt and Grand (Grandvelt) is beginning to go through a renaissance

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The awesome Mid Century Modern "Valley Ho" hotel in Scottsdale

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Shrine in Guadalupe

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The Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse. One of the worst buildings ever, its giant glass forms make it impossible to cool and its a super block that kills downtown. Thanks Richard Meier.

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a summer night on a canal

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Lee's Oriental Rock Garden near Camelback Mountain, Phoenix

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Phoenix's oldest house, from 1879.

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Sugar Beet factory, Glendale. This building now sits empty waiting a re-use.

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Bikini Lounge, from 1947, an original Tiki bar.

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Brophy College Prep Chapel, Central Phoenix

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"Praying Monk" rock formation on Camelback Mountain

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No explanation needed here...

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Chihuly at the Desert Botanical Garden

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Scorpion Gulch, a fake old west town built by eccentric Bill Lundsford in the 30's near South Mountain

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Mystery Castle, South Mountain

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Arizona LDS Temple, Mesa

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The Farm at South Mountain

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House in the Alvarado District, Midtown Phoenix

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Sapna Cafe (now sadly closed) in the old Braggs Pie Factory on Grand Ave, Phoenix

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The head of Camelback and the Praying Monk

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Lola Coffee, Roosevelt District, Downtown Phoenix

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The "haunted" San Carlos Hotel, Downtown Phoenix

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An awesome adaptive re-use of a vintage gas station, Copper Star Coffee in the Melrose District of Midtown Phoenix

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Sahuaro Ranch Park, Glendale

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Phoenix Children's Museum (interior), Downtown Phoenix

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eery shot of Downtown. The horizontal Federal building in the front can be seen quite a bit in the terrible Clint Eastwood movie "The Gauntlet"

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Aldea at Tlaquepaque, West Phoenix

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palm lined street, Roosevelt District, Downtown

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1st Baptist Church, Downtown. Now missing its roof and most of its interior due to a fire its awaiting re-use.

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Solar Array, Peoria.

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Industrial sunset, Laveen.

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Rail bridges, old and new, over Tempe Town Lake

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Tempe Center for the Arts

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The Westward Ho. For many years the tallest building in Phoenix and its most glamorous hotel, its now HUD housing for Seniors. Downtown Phoenix.

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Arizona Falls, a small hydroelectric power station on the Canal in Arcadia (East Phoenix)

Anyway, I thought Ms. Browns photo's were interesting, hope you did too. She seems to enjoy eschewing the presence of human life in most of her pictures which gives them a somewhat creepy and suspended in time feeling.