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SHIM AND BEAR ITNOW IN HIS 70S, THE HAPPY LITTLE WHEEL-ALIGNMENT MASCOT IS STILL AN ENDEARING SPECIES

By Anna Dooling
May 11, 1995

Moe Allen was a character. He was the kind of man whose girlfriends were invariably described as "floozies" and who drank a fifth of Seagram's every day. He flew his own airplane. He fished for--what else?--bass. He'd spent a few years in prison for bad checks. Sometimes your bad habits...
HOW THE WEST WAS GUNNED GUNSLINGER BUFF AIMS FOR AUTHENTICITY, CLAIMS HOLLYWOOD MISSES THE MARK

By Anna Dooling
Feb 9, 1995

James Dunham cringed while he was watching the film Wyatt Earp last year. Well, so did a lot of other people, but mostly they were film lovers appalled by Kevin Costner's performance. Dunham was covering his eyes because of the historical inaccuracies he saw perpetrated onscreen. One was particularly close...
MIRACLE ON 24TH STREET

FOR DECADES, BELIEVERS HAVE FLOCKED TO A SOUTH PHOENIX CHAPEL DEDICATED TO A HYBRID SAINT CANONIZED BY THE MASSES

By Anna Dooling
Dec 29, 1994

The memory of the uniquely Mexican way of practicing his religion. After a short time in Tombstone, Francisco settled in the area around 24th Street and Baseline Road, a part of the Valley that was then devoted to citrus orchards and cotton fields, and to a great extent still is...
CASTLE HOT SPRINGS

GENTEEL, DISHABILLE AND DECIDEDLY UNDERSTATED----WHO SAID COMATOSE?---ARIZONA'S GRANDE DAME MAY HAVE ONE LAST OPENING ON HER DANCE CARD

By Anna Dooling
Jun 8, 1994

Ena McGuire remembers the morning after the main building at Castle Hot Springs burned to the ground. The fire took place in December 1976, only days before the resort was to open for the season. Ena McGuire delivered the mail up and down the road the hotel was located on...
GILA BENT HAS SUFFEREDLIKE JOB BUT WITH MORE COMPLAINING

By Anna Dooling
Jun 30, 1993

Gila Bend is a stock-in-trade joke in Arizona. It is the kind of town summarized by dismissive epithets like Armpit, Bumfuck or Toilet Seat, as in, "I spent a week there one night." That rude description about where you would put the enema also applies. Gila Bend is one of...

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