In the early 1970’s Northwest Phoenix was a rapidly expanding area of the valley. The Black Canyon Freeway was just completed to beyond the then city limits and its construction was continuing toward Black Canyon City.

The Metrocenter Mall, the largest of it’s kind at the time, was under construction. Developers and builders were fast changing the vegetable fields and orange groves of John Jacobs Farms – and others like it – into hundreds of homes. The population of Phoenix was growing and moving northwest.

A young member of the Mesa Roadrunners Lions Club, बॉब वाइन, had just returned from Oregon. He had noticed this expansion of Phoenix and had established his new business in the northwest area. He had looked around for a Lions club to transfer into. अपनी सुविधा के पूरा करने के लिए कोई भी नहीं थे. यह बॉब की प्रकृति है कि "हम यह नहीं है, तो, हम इसे कर देंगे। ". और इसलिए उसने किया.

शेर बॉब इस उत्तर पश्चिमी फीनिक्स क्षेत्र में एक नया लायंस क्लब स्थापित करने में उसके साथ शामिल होने के लिए अपने दोस्तों और साथी कार्यकर्ताओं में से कुछ के लिए आमंत्रित किया. दोस्तों और साथी कार्यकर्ताओं अन्य मित्रों और परिवार के सदस्यों और पड़ोसियों और समुदाय व्यवसायियों के आगे प्रचार के साथ पूछा वहाँ जल्द ही लायंस क्लब के रूप में रुचि रखने वाले आदमी थे.

हालांकि इस भर्ती चल रहा था, शेर बॉब फीनिक्स मिडटाउन लायंस क्लब का दौरा किया और उनकी सहायता को संगठित करने और एक नए क्लब को प्रायोजित करने के लिए कहा. यह स्पष्ट नहीं है अगर मिडटाउन क्लब जिला गवर्नर लायन विल Stevener द्वारा शेर बॉब के लिए सिफारिश की गई थी_टी but Lion Will helped in the organizing of the new club. Past International Director, Lion Floyd Hammon was assigned as Guiding Lion.

Lion Bob tells the story of finding a meeting place:

“We (the committee) had checked several locations for group meetings. When we visited the newly opened Denny’s restaurant along the newly built Black Canyon Freeway, the manager was just cleaning a newly installed coffee maker. We asked him if he could accommodate a Lions Club on Tuesday evenings. He was really elated! We shared the first coffee brewed in his new maker and discussed the arrangements for our meetings.”

Denny’s became the home of the newly formed Lions club.