Everyone---You are looking at a rare photo -The Place: A newly constructed "terminal 1", Gate #3 at the Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, AZ. Bonanza and Frontier were rivals in providing local airline service to the many small western towns. Bonanza, based in Las Vegas, enlarged, eventually becoming Air West and then Hughes Air West when Howard Hughes purchased it. It fell in a merger upon Hughes' death. Frontier, based in Denver, continues to this day having expanded its routes even to Europe by dropping many of the smaller towns that it serviced.
In the background is the famous Camelback Mountain which is now obscured by many miles of buildings. The 'newly constructed terminal 1' replaced the original terminal 1 which had been a log & adobe cabin. That cabin was so well constructed that it was moved just outside the airport proper to an industrial area and it became an avionics repair shop into the mid-1970s before it was finally replaced. This new terminal 1 had a flat-roofed observation deck open to the public. The terminal also hosted many movie stars until an Executive Terminal was built on the north side of the airport. But it also held the distinction of hosting Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson.
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