The Sun Sets on the Block

A composite 1993–1999 map of suburban Phoenix: stucco homes, broad roads, irrigation channels, palms, citrus trees, the strip mall, the video-rental stop, and the community pool. The route ends where the street turns gold at sunset.

The pocket relic is a handful of POGs. Players stacked the round cardboard milk caps and used a heavier slammer to knock them over; the flipped caps became the prize. 1

This memory atlas is a public-cultural reconstruction of an era and region. It gives the reader a place to recognize, compare, and fill with their own associations.