While driving down Speedway this morning, I passed that old, tiny barber shop midway between Beverly and Woodland on the north side.? It's directly across from the SAS Fabric store.? The whole front of the building is down and there were some sort of notices posted.? Wasn't this the little business that refused to sell out to some developer about 15-20 years ago and kept his little parcel of land that scuttled a project to turn that whole block into something else??

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I always think of Wally Sevits and his rotating red "balls" sign that was located somewhere near there along Speedway.? Those balls stopped rotating and began to look?like they were bouncing into and back onto each other after you looked at it long enough.? Of course, I'm remembering from the late 60's and lots of things back then looked "different" when you stared at them long enough.

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I'm sure you'll all agree the NEW Chuck E. Cheese (across the street from the OLD Chuck E. Cheese) is ... heck, I think the giant monkey,?the Tiki Head, and the windmill looked better there.

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Alex Cook

Southern Arizonan since 1954

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