I was just in Charleston, and it has so much history and all the street lights match, and the Starbucks matches all of the historical colors. We don’t have anything like that on Canyon Road. It’s raw. It’s authentic.
You go to Scottsdale and everything is so pretty and manicured and wonderful and that is just not us. Canyon Road doesn’t have Jamba Juice. No Anthropologie. We are arts and crafts, we are mom and pop. And as everything gets more gentrified, we still have the raw Southwest feeling on this street.
When they filmed Tom Hanks’ News of the World in front of El Zagaun, all they did was dump a little dirt on the streets covering the pavement and it looked just like the 1870s! I drove through when they were filming and it was like you were stepping back into time. But they didn’t have to change anything! The street looked like 150 years ago. You couldn’t do that in Scottsdale.
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