Description
Conceived and built within the early 1960s by local artist and advertising man Louis E. Crandall, Legend City was once an ambitious and star-crossed mid-century try to bring a world-class theme park to the Phoenix metropolitan area. Regardless of daunting financial challenges and an unforgiving Arizona sun, the park managed to live on for 2 full decades, entertaining countless Arizonans and forging a long-lasting place for itself within the hearts and minds of local residents. A sad tale of broken dreams and economic failure at the surface, the tale of Legend City is in fact an exhilarating and fascinating chapter within the cultural history of Arizona.