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Phoenix in the 80s: Growth and Change | Mesa News
The 1980s were a boom decade for metro Phoenix—watching Metrocenter Mall rise, the Sundome debut, and Sky Harbor transform with airline deregulation. Floods tested resilience on the Salt River, while freeways like the I-10/I-17 stack reshaped commutes. Arizona stunned the nation when Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female Supreme Court justice, while Goldwater and Wilcox kept politics alive. Public phones still buzzed at the airport—a relic of a time before smartphones. Behind the scenes, the Central Arizona Project delivered water that fueled trillions in growth, and Intel’s Chandler…
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