Sun City …A Very Special Place

We are not here to sell Sun City. We are here to praise Sun City, Arizona, and to pay tribute with editorial testimony to the developers, workers and residents of one of Arizona's important and vital communities.

The words, Golden Age, come to mind when we think of Sun City. Why Golden Age? When is it? And where?

Sun City, Arizona is a most radiant example of an alchemic transmutation where common human qualities and basic earthy substance have produced the Golden Age standard of the world in planned community developments.

Sun City, founded only fourteen years ago, is a young city. At year's end of 1960 its population was approximately 2,500. Today it is more than 33,000 and growing daily, attesting to the fact that Sun City's rate of growth is five times that of the State of Arizona and that of Maricopa County.

Whatever the negative aspects of inflation sure results of the process rising prices of real property and increased rentals and leases are inevitable. Sun City is a profitable and enduring investment. Fourteen years ago, the first homes sold for $8,500 to $11,300. Those same properties if offered for resale today will bring three times the original price. For the citizen in the Golden Age of his life, Sun City assures more for his money than anywhere else. The quality of Sun City homes today, and their prices are commensurate with contemporary life styles and increased building costs, with prices starting at $25,000 minimum. The Sun City Model Home Pavilion is a miniature World's Fair exhibit setting a world standard for design, interior decorating and landscaping. All models are shown with golf course, lakeside and enclosed patio situations. Our favorite conversation piece is the star of the show, with swimming pool in the foyer, mirrored ceiling and fire engine red enamelled bathtub for Golden Agers with a Beverly Hills complex.

Sun City is a haven for those who believe in a community being self-reliant. This utopian concept can work only where the individual's financial stability and independence assures a bulwark against corruption in civic and political endeavors.

Most Sun Citians were somebodies, from somewhere else. They left their dejections and ineptitudes behind and brought with them a limitless pool of experience which has resulted in a community spirit transcending “home-town” differences.

It is the inborn desire of American life to seek a good measure of life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Sun City is a beautiful chapter in the history of civilized man's record of searching for room, for room means freedom, dignity, composure and perspective.

Sun City is no longer an experiment in the American stake. The wealth of knowledge gained through the evolution and development of Sun City has benefited and upgraded all planned communities irrespective of life style.

We see in Sun City, Arizona a festival of diverse interests of civic, commercial, social, patriotic and aesthetic endeavors and accomplishments unmatched in promise and performance anywhere in the world.

Sun City, Arizona is one of the most wonderful things that has happened in the United States of America.

And in a world of beautiful places and wonderful things that's something very special.

Any questions? Write: Del E. Webb Development Co., P.O. Box 555, Sun City, Arizona 85351.

Of the 7,300 acres presently developed in Sun City, 1,200 are devoted to golf, prompting writers to frequently describe it as a “golfer's paradise.” But whether one is a golfer or not the nine courses make Sun City a beautiful open green place to live.

During 1973 nearly one-half million rounds were played on Sun City's courses.

With such a wide selection of courses it logically follows that Sun City is the scene of many golf tournaments. The first major tournament held there was in 1963 when the U.S. National Seniors Open was played on Sun City North. In 1973 the $10,000 Sun City Second Tour P.G.A. Tournament was born on Riverview Golf Course. In 1974, this satellite tourney featuring the touring pros who miss qualifying for the Phoenix Open was played on the Sun City South Course.