I sure miss AZ. When I was a kid, AJ and Mesa were separate. I lived in AJ, population 20,000 +- in the summer and 100,000 in the winter, so they said. I used to ride motorcycles and shoot in the desert out south Meridian, where my friend’s folks owned an auto salvage. I lived in Payson almost my entire adult life. I’ve been in Indiana for six very long years.
Still a few junkyards out that way.
Back in the late 1970s, I used to visit my brother-in-law in Apache Junction and we would ride motorcycles while open carrying holstered revolvers shooting at cactus along the way. Great fun!