Let’s All Go to the Mall
Keith Milford of the terrific Malls of America shares a short video of Phoenix’s Metrocenter circa 1990 (you can tell when it was videotaped because that lame-o “Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird” song is...
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Last week me and Christopher (both natives of the Phoenix area) got to talking about the fondly remembered local businesses that we used to enjoy as kids. One of the first places that came up was...
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Concrete Reasoning
Last weekend we caught a photography show called Midcentury Modern Buildngs in Phoenix at the local library. The Phoenix metro area doesn’t have a whole lot of eccentric midcentury architecture, but...
View ArticleHousing Developments
Funny stuff: the Phoenix New Times‘ Robrt L. Pela begins a new column, Surreal Estate, with a piece on the new faux-Italian apartment complex bordering the busy I-17 freeway. This reminds me of when I...
View ArticleUnidentified Persons Bureau
Locally speaking, last week’s Phoenix New Times had an interesting story on the Maricopa County Medical Examiners Office and one woman’s efforts to get an unidentified body database going on the...
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To All the Call Letters I’ve Loved Before
This is a post about cool local radio stations that I grew up loving in the ’80s and ’90s. Back then the industry was run by real people who loved music and not some crappy demographic chart cranked...
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Soda Review: Waialua Pineapple
Get ready for a classic “kid in a candy store” scenario. Yesterday the mister and I had a day-long trip to nearby Scottsdale (zoo, antiquing, lunch). Since we were going out there anyway, I had to have...
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Having fun rummaging about Walt Lockley’s site all afternoon. This is the Phoenix equivalent of James Lileks’ Minneapolis site: quirky commentary on quirky local architecture. Of course, since Phoenix...
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Let’s Hear It for Generic Scientist Guy
About the nifty sculpture below: we drive by this all the time. It’s located in downtown Phoenix’s Encanto Park, surrounded by a grove of Italian cypresses that threaten to grow over the poor guy. It...
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Years ago, I remember seeing a Morrissey music video that was filmed along Van Buren Street here in Phoenix. Lo and behold, here’s “My Love Life.” I can understand Van Buren’s appeal for a foreign-born...
View ArticleWe’ll Be Right Back
Nostalgia galore from an Alburquerque, New Mexico TV station commercial break, circa 1979. Though I grew up in the Phoenix, AZ area, I remember much of this stuff — the ABC movie promo, the Yellow...
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Silent Saturday
You oughta know this by now, but we can’t get enough old movies — on DVD, on Turner Classic Movies, anywhere we can find them. With all the old movies we get to see, however, it’s a shame that we...
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Friday Fun
Christopher had the day off work today, so we decided to head out to Scottsdale and Tempe for some outdoor fun. Our first stop was Desert Botanical Gardens. This place is a a total snowbird tourist...
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Laura Ingalls, Prairie Girl, at LitKids
I’ve added a new print at my LitKids etsy store — Laura Ingalls from the Little House on the Prairie books. This is the first time I’ve done a relatively recent character, and by “recent” I mean...
View ArticleOur StoryCorps Day
StoryCorps is a unique program in which average people record stories from their own lives. The recordings are stored for posterity by the Library of Congress, and a few of the more intriguing ones are...
View ArticleJingle All The Way
When I was a wee tyke, I loved TV commercial jingles (still love them, don’t kill me). This fact came to mind recently when I was listening to a internet radio station for vintage music and Eddie...
View ArticleWe’ll Be Right Back
Nostalgia galore from an Alburquerque, New Mexico TV station commercial break, circa 1979. Though I grew up in the Phoenix, AZ area, I remember much of this stuff — the ABC movie promo, the Yellow...
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Silent Saturday
You oughta know this by now, but we can’t get enough old movies — on DVD, on Turner Classic Movies, anywhere we can find them. With all the old movies we get to see, however, it’s a shame that we...
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Friday Fun
Christopher had the day off work today, so we decided to head out to Scottsdale and Tempe for some outdoor fun. Our first stop was Desert Botanical Gardens. This place is a a total snowbird tourist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Laura Ingalls, Prairie Girl, at LitKids
I’ve added a new print at my LitKids etsy store — Laura Ingalls from the Little House on the Prairie books. This is the first time I’ve done a relatively recent character, and by “recent” I mean...
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