Bayless was at 56th and Thomas.
Tower had a Newberry and a Fedmart.
Tower had a Newberry and a Fedmart.
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Possible Clear Channel Buyer?
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I don't remember a Fedmart, but I did buy a GE TV from Federated.....an electronics chain (the Best Buy of the time). There was an ice skating rink in back, and a small movie theater near it. There was also a JC Penny store. I can remember a Newberry's at the Colonade, but I can't place one at Tower Plaza.
pberger said:
With Shadoe Stevens as TV pitchman "Fred Rated."
A lot of the dents on the '76 Gremlin came from hittting those steel polls around KT'R's tower as Nurse Jeff and I tried to do our banking at Valley National. We've often wondered just how much copper is left in the ground system there after all the reconstruction. We've also wondered if Clear Channel can get their programming staff down to one employee per station, but that's another topic!
pberger said:
Federated was great, that was there when they did the revitalizing of Tower Plaza, had Denims and Diamonds there and the Acapulco Bay Beach Club as well.
Now, its a Walmart and a Home Depot and a bunch of crappy stores.
There was a Fedmart at 48th and McDowell, and I think it moved to Tower Plaza. I also remember Yates.
And Gooney golf, I saw Alvin Adams and Keith Erickson playing golf there with their dates back in the 70's.
Oh when professional basketball players were on innocent dates at Goony Golf....another time entirely. There was a bizzare "Tennis in the Round" thing there too, back when tennis was all the rage.
No sooner had I put on a tin-foil hat while gift-wrapping ... this vision came to me ...
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-051125.html
http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-051125.html
oaktree said:
Sports Parking Lot 6~Twenty is non directional days and uses the second stick at night. Nurse Jeff and I don't know which tower is hot during the day, both have top hats and one has experienced "shrinkage". TMISU can certainly afford to move the site to a more rural location, but why? Does anyone really think ground conductivity in the desert makes a difference? And does anyone really think AM is in a growth mode? We say sell advertising space on the tower that sits in the parking lot and increase cash flow!
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Sports Parking Lot 6~Twenty is non directional days and uses the second stick at night. Nurse Jeff and I don't know which tower is hot during the day, both have top hats and one has experienced "shrinkage". TMISU can certainly afford to move the site to a more rural location, but why? Does anyone really think ground conductivity in the desert makes a difference?
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sorry doc, but to find the room you need for the sticks you'd have to move a lot more than 10 miles,(NIMBY) and then you would lose the grandfathering of the 620 pattern. ktar would have to go extremely directional at night (think 6 sticks instead of 2) you can get good conductivity if you can put your towers along the salt river. (think KMIK) I suppose if the Bonnyboys could make a deal with the folks on the reservation they could make the move and not lose the current pattern.
IIRC, when tower plaza was re-built they tore up about 40% of the radials on the north tower. (the daytime tower) they were replaced before the new tarmac was put down. the tarmac does serve a good purpose -keeps the copper radials from being pulled up by vandals and sold for salvage. ( a problem common over at the 860 site)
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Sports Parking Lot 6~Twenty is non directional days and uses the second stick at night. Nurse Jeff and I don't know which tower is hot during the day, both have top hats and one has experienced "shrinkage". TMISU can certainly afford to move the site to a more rural location, but why? Does anyone really think ground conductivity in the desert makes a difference?
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sorry doc, but to find the room you need for the sticks you'd have to move a lot more than 10 miles,(NIMBY) and then you would lose the grandfathering of the 620 pattern. ktar would have to go extremely directional at night (think 6 sticks instead of 2) you can get good conductivity if you can put your towers along the salt river. (think KMIK) I suppose if the Bonnyboys could make a deal with the folks on the reservation they could make the move and not lose the current pattern.
IIRC, when tower plaza was re-built they tore up about 40% of the radials on the north tower. (the daytime tower) they were replaced before the new tarmac was put down. the tarmac does serve a good purpose -keeps the copper radials from being pulled up by vandals and sold for salvage. ( a problem common over at the 860 site)
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