Phoenix Daily Photo

  17 years ago I did several posts about a little enclave of homes built where a date farm used to exist.  The buildings at Palma Viva at o...

  I happened to be driving down 44th Street last Friday and I decided to pull into an old neighborhood that sits in a former date palm ranch...

I’ll end my little tour of the old date grove with this shot of one of the trees looking straight up. This variety of date palm grows stra...

This area is on the other side of the old packing house. In addition to the tall palms, the area is also shaded by very large eucalyptus t...

These old gates appear to be originals left from when this was a working date farm. They are located in several areas around the buildings...

This building is part of the old packing house where the dried dates were packaged and shipped to the retailers. It has now been divided i...

Palma Viva is the name of this little condominium community built around the original date farm buildings. You enter from a narrow private...

There is a neighborhood in east Phoenix that was once a date palm grove. In fact this whole area was dedicated to citrus and dates and muc...