Introduction

The Last Desperados of Legend City simply put is a place to see where to drink in the greater Phoenix area. We go to bars, we review the bars and we write about the bars. But for those of you that want a little bit more grease to go with your booze there of course is a background story to go along with all the drinking, hootin and hollerin.

The background to how this blog was born is also simple enough. We live, work, breath but most importantly drink in Phoenix, Arizona. Try as it might and no matter how large the city grows Phoenix, the state of Arizona and the Southwest in general can never see to shake the Wild West imagery that the rest of the U.S. and world has branded upon us. So who better than a bunch of local miscreants to latch onto this imagery, exploit the hell out of it and ride as far as our horses can possibly carry us into the sunset.

Equally as important to our lust of beer and booze is our love of Phoenix and all things Phoenician like. We have watched our small desert oasis blossom, bloom and then explode into the massive metropolitan cityscape of never ending suburbs. Lost amongst this metamorphosis were many great places, many of which were staples of the history that made Phoenix what it is today. One of the biggest that has been lost to the annals of history is a place called Legend City.
Legend City was Phoenix’s first amusement park…that’s right Phoenix actually had an honest to goodness amusement park. It was situated across the riverbed from Sun Devil Stadium on the Tempe/Phoenix border. Even though it wasn’t a particularly great amusement park (compared to the likes of a certain Southern California Mouse House) it did have a southwest theme and was patronized by the great Wallace and Ladmo. Legend City rose and fell long before most Valley residents even moved here and disappeared in 1983. With the exception of a website dedicated to the memory of the place, it has been wiped completely from the map and very few even remember it existed at all. To see more about this lost Phoenix icon visit this website: http://www.legend-city.com/ .

We are the dedicated desperados that call this inhospitable desert home. We are the few that refuse to let the history die and we use our hearts and minds to remind everyone of the awesomeness that is Phoenix and we dedicate our tales to the memories of Legend City. And what better way to do this then to pass along the knowledge we compile just like the cowboy poets of days long past.

We are the Last Desperados of Legend City and we are here to drink.