Live music, restaurants, entertainment and bars bustling with people from across the Valley was the normal weekend night of Mill Avenue in the 1990s.
ASU alum Julian Wright recollected the “glory days” of Mill Avenue. It was a time when neither Old Town Scottsdale nor downtown Phoenix contained concentrated nightlife districts — a time when everything happened in downtown Tempe.
“Most people just partied and hung out on Mill Avenue,” Wright said. “People would drive from Scottsdale, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert.”…