I was in Phoenix one summer about the same time.
I was laying out at the pool and the pages of my paperback started to fall out. The glue was melting!!
I don’t remember the exact tempt but I do remember it was over 110
[I was in Phoenix one summer about the same time.]
Woke up in my hotel in Phoenix in 1996. It was about 9 or 9:30 a.m. People all out at the pool.
I thought, who goes to the pool at 9?
Then I figured it out.
Had a rented 1996 Thunderbird. Came out of Venture (remember them?) and touched the chrome door handle.
Oooh, ouch!! Hot HOT HOT!!!
But I did grab up a nice collection of BBQ sauce. Amazingly, Southwest didn’t break a bottle. There was no mail order that I knew of at the time so I loaded up several dozen bottles. Cleaned out at least 2 or 3 grocery stores of what was on the shelves.
Phoenix residents probably know which sauce I was after.
I could see that happening.
That same year, I got an old Triumph Spitfire. I thought that a convertible would be nice to have out there. But those black vinyl seats ... DANG!!!!