IN the Big Inning
(by various artists)
7th St. Bridge over the Train Tracks
The artists recorded on this album all playing a tuning note, digitally stitched together from separate recordings.
7th St. Bridge over the Train Tracks
The artists recorded on this album all playing a tuning note, digitally stitched together from separate recordings.
The effect mirrors the movement of the train tracks as they weave together beneath the 7th St. bridge, which you cross as you enter Downtown Phoenix from the Southeast. This movement, this weaving pattern, reflects the multicultural roots of Phoenix, which go back to its earliest days. The railroad first cut a path through the warehouse district on the south side of Downtown Phoenix in 1887, six years after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, a little under 200 miles to the South and East. The warehouse district served as a hub for minority communities for decades. Hispanic and African American neighborhoods flourished. A Chinatown began developing in the 1870s and lasted until the 1950s, when the community dissolved amidst Cold War political tensions—Communist China was an ally of the Soviet Union, and supported North Korea against the U.S. in the Korean War—and the broader post-World War II American cultural shift to the suburbs. Many of the last structures from the heyday of Phoenix’ Chinatown were demolished in the late 1980s to make way for America West Arena, now known as PHX Arena and still the home of the Phoenix Suns. Chase Field, home of the MLB’s Arizona Diamondbacks, is only a few blocks away. Both stadiums are hubs of activity today, located along the century-old train tracks in this historic heart of the city.
(Some of the information in these liner notes is fictional, presented here in the attempt of satire)
(Some of the information in these liner notes is fictional, presented here in the attempt of satire)
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