Lost buildings, canals, trolleys, and ghosts! Local author Robert Melikian recalls his downtown Phoenix midnight walks and adventures as a teenager. Robert contrasts the downtown he experienced in the 1970s, when his family began a decades-long journey to revitalize and run an old hotel, to downtown's vibrant early days of the 1920s.

About the Presenter: Robert Melikian grew up in Phoenix, graduating from Arcadia High School and Arizona State University. A lawyer with a passion for historic preservation, he and his family have owned and operated a dozen historic buildings in downtown Phoenix, Tucson and Scottsdale, including the San Carlos Hotel since 1973. He is the author of Vanishing Phoenix, Hotel San Carlos, Phoenix Past and Present, and now Forgotten Phoenix.

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