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Beadle Mania

Exploring the life and loves, brawls and buildings of the late, great Phoenix Modernist, Al Beadle

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Mad Men in Midtown

Back when Phoenicians dressed to the nines, drove cars the size of aircraft carriers and everyone who was anyone was clamoring for a bunny-shaped key granting them access to the Playboy Club's private penthouse

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Arizona is Awash in Tiki

A tower controller at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Pierre Mosley's unwinds by firing up his chainsaw and carving castaway palm tree trunks into towering Tiki statues

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Who Killed the Electric Streetcar?

Launched in 1887, the Phoenix Street Railways sparked the Valley's first suburban boom before falling off the tracks in a fiery haze of finger pointing

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