This was the first ACB convention I attended with Terry. It's been too long since the trip for me to remember enough detail to give a day by day breakdown, so I'll just go through the pictures.
The convention hall across from the hotel, where the exhibits were located.
A view from the front of the hotel, looking off to the left of the convention hall.
A closer view of the church visible in the last picture.
In a park/museum area near the hotel, there were some old homes which were closed on the day I was there.
The hotel. As I recall, I saw this hotel from the plane as we were coming in for a landing.
Before I went to Phoenix, I was talking to my co-worker Ruben, who is black. I asked him if we were still supposed to be boycotting Arizona, because of Martin Luther King Day. He said yes. I then apologized for going there (not that he really would have held it against me). He said that it would be okay as long as I only patronized black-owned businesses. I said I would have no way of knowing who owned what business. He advised me to eat in soul food restaurants. So when I got there, I looked in the phone book for a soul food restaurant, and I found one! This is it.
And this is the menu, written on the wall.
While Terry attended convention sessions, I wandered around. Among other things, I saw this modernistic sort of bandshell in a central square in downtown Phoenix.
This building contains a tourist information office.
And this building, across the street, contains a history museum.
I spent some time at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, which was actually more interesting than it sounds.
In this picture, the gold dome in the distance is the Arizona State Capitol building. Actually, it's no longer used as the Capitol; the current capitol is a more modern looking building behind the old Capitol, which is now a museum.
In the area approaching the Capitol is a park containing a large number of memorials, including this one, the anchor of the U.S.S. (what else?) Arizona.
And here are some more memorials, all arranged in a semicircle.
A closer view of the old Capitol, with the new one behind it.
Another tourist attraction; an old house in the mountains. It was also closed when I was there, and I had to view it through a wire fence.
We spent some time with friends; Desi Hammond (now Noller), and Vicki Murdoch (now Bishop):
...with whom we shared dinner in the revolving restaurant at the top of the hotel:
...and spent some time in Scottsdale, an artsy, touristy sort of suburb of Phoenix.
The "Old Town" area of Scottsdale, which had considerably more form than substance:
Some interesting metal sculptures outside of an art gallery in Scottsdale:
