(guitar music)
- [Woman] We're driving and she's like huh.
Look at, mommy, mommy, the A.
There's a big giant A.
- [Girl] It was this big,
(laughter)
this big.
- [Woman] Pretty big.
- [Girl] It's big.
- [Man] What do you want to do?
You want to go up there?
- [Girl] All the way.
- [Woman] All the way. - To the top.
(laughs)
- [Man] Higher than Tucson.
- [Woman] (chuckles) Yep.
My dad used to bring our whole cross country team up here.
He'd drop us off at the bottom
and then we'd have to run up.
And this was kind of like our gift at the end.
(kids yelling)
And we got to go up there and climb to the top.
It draws you to it.
You know.
You can't help but want to climb it
when you, (chuckles) when you, when you're here.
- [Man] I was always here as a kid with the family.
We used to always come up here,
and just eat food actually,
and just hang out.
(string music)
- [Woman] ASU students came
and like painted it and stuff.
And there was like this whole big fuss
over the A right there,
so I had to come and see for myself.
But now I just like the view of the city.
This is someplace I would come
not to reflect on a day,
but to more like, forget about the day.
- [Man] I got good memories,
and then I got bad memories too.
(wind)
I brought my son up here right after school
so he can have some fun.
You know, we were grooving to some music. (chuckles)
We had 50 Cent, we had Tyga,
we had just some feeling music
to enjoy the night that we're in.
My son right now, I'm with him right now.
I'm building a great memory.
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- [Boy] I like the sunset, and all the buildings,
and the lights.
It's just really nice to look at.
- [Man] I stayed at that motel on the second floor
and stood on the balcony to watch the fireworks
from over here.
And it's hard for me to recognize,
because a lot of things have happened in 25 years.
(chuckles)
I remember empty fields.
Now, there are buildings down there.
- [Woman] I've lived here for many, many years.
I usually bring friends who are visiting
from out of town, because it's, it's the one place,
where they can see the whole scope of Tucson.
- [Man] Traveling south to like Kentucky, Tennessee,
things like that, you know, you get into foothills,
before you get in the mountains.
And here, everything is flat,
and then, pow, there's a mountain right in your face.
- [Woman] Oh, it's beautiful.
I mean Michigan is all flat.
We don't have mountains,
so it's, definitely, a breathtaking view.
- [Man] The views get more and more spectacular
as you get higher and higher.
It's like a hot air balloon ride
without the hot air balloon.
- [Woman] I usually go to the hut.
That's over there.
I just like to sit and escape school. (chuckles)
- [Man] This one time,
we had come up here around eight o'clock,
sun was still going down,
it was just so nice.
(soft music)
Clouds were looking white, yellow, maroon,
and you could definitely take a picture that day,
post it somewhere online,
if they weren't from Tucson,
they were definitely talking about the sunset.
(soft music)
Oh, it's full of Tucson pride.
You see a mountain,
you know that's Tucson.
(soft music)
- [Woman] Well, my grandson is visiting,
from the east coast.
- [Man] Yep. And I, I just was thinking about a nice place
that we could go before I brought nana out to dinner.
And nana has lived here for, what, 15 years?
- [Woman] Yeah, now.
- [Man] About 15 years, and she had never been up here,
so I thought - No.
Why not?
- [Woman] So, here we are. (chuckles)
Gorgeous, gorgeous sunset.
- [Man] Yeah.