The Desert Mission has been helping Sunnyslope families address their health and social needs for more than nine decades. Now a part of the HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center, the Mission has been an invaluable resource, bringing stability, revitalization, jobs, economic development, and health care to this unique neighborhood. In the early 1920s, the local Presbyterian Church sought to help individuals who arrived in Sunnyslope suffering from pulmonary and respirator

The "Back When" column in Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine is a rare photo that captures bank executives performing manual labor under a teenager's guidance. This event occurred in 1963 when Guaranty Bank prepared to open a new branch in Sunnyslope. The kid asked the bank to move a shack on the property to his house, so he could use it as a pigeon coop. For other neighborhood stories, get a copy of the Sunnyslope special issue at https://www.bookson7thave.com/. #Sunnys

Thanks so much to the North Central News and their new editor, Colleen Sparks, for featuring an article about the just-released Sunnyslope special issue of Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine in their September issue. The eclectic community always surprises, from geodesic domes built by ASU English professors to a space-age groundbreaking for a bank to a Dutch-themed subdivision where potential home-buyers were given complimentary tulips. http://northcentralnews.net/…/spe

The first Sunnyslope special issue (Fall 2017) of Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine focused on the community’s more exotic businesses and characters: Richard Barker’s Cloud 9 Dining Room atop Shaw Butte, Dr. Kenneth Hall’s North Mountain Hospital and El Cid Bowling Alley, and Jimmy, the beer-drinking burro, at Abel’s Gas Station along Cave Creek. For our just-released Sept/Oct 2019 Sunnyslope special issue, we focused on essential stories about the community. The articl

Publisher Billy Horner and Books owner Mary Anne Ramirez pose in front of her creative signboard in honor of the bookstore now carrying back issues of Arizona Contractor & Community magazine. Whether your interest is Arizona aviation history, Legend City, the Christown Mall or Celebrity Theater, our back issues provide vintage images of these iconic Arizona places. Books is an independent family business located in Phoenix's Sunnyslope neighborhood at 9201 North Seventh Avenu

Thanks to the North Central News for putting Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine L.L.C. on the front page of its October issue! Teri Carnicelli even managed to take a nice photo of myself and Mary Anne Ramirez, the proprietor of Books where you can buy a copy of our Fall issue that's filled with "Stories of the Weird and Wonderful in Sunnyslope. #Sunnyslope #NorthCentralNews #Booksbookstore

Fifteen cents could buy an open-flame broiled hamburger, French fries or a shake at the 1962 Grand Opening of the Burger Chef Drive-In on Seventh Street in Sunnyslope, which is the "Back When" feature in the Fall issue of the Arizona Contractor & Community Magazine L.L.C. Pick up a copy of our special issue on Phoenix's Sunnyslope neighborhood at Books, 9201 North Seventh Avenue. #Sunnyslope #BurgerChef #BackWhen

For our Fall 2017 Special Issue on Phoenix's unique Sunnyslope neighborhood, Arizona Contractor & Community magazine wanted to spotlight our talented friends at the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Christia Gibbons, who teaches at the school, is our internship coordinator, while student Carly Hanson was the magazine's first intern. Thank you both for making the issue one of the magazine's most popular to date. #ASUWalterCronkiteSchoolofJouranlism #Sunnyslope #Christ