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When Goodyear was incorporated in the late 1940s, the town boasted about 150 homes, 250 apartments and the basics: a grocery store, drugstore, barbershop, beauty shop and service station. Look at the 115 square miles of Goodyear today, and yesterday quickly fades. Thousands of homes have risen from the dirt, cars pack the streets, and plans for a regional mall and spring training stadium are under way. Goodyear’s population, now at 50,000, will grow again with annexation of 67 square miles, the latest sign of the southwest Valley city’s sprawling future. More…