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KTKT mid 70’s TV spot from 18mm film from my archives. Recently digitized by Carlos Terrazas. Concept by Mark Schwartz (G.M.) and me (Ed Alexander). Created by budding Cinematographer Pete Kozachik (RIP )- before he created worldwide blockbusters including The Nightmare Before Christmas. https://1drv.ms/v/c/79ee487eae6624be/IQBd5_i_H4A2Raco_aR2hDejAXFrGXDpe8oeStDIZU-dH8A Thanks to Carlos Terrazas Download QR code for this page
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By Caylah Eddleblute February 8-March 18, 1985 – Newsreal, Page 20 I remember it as if the entire decade unfolded just a moment ago, like a crisp snapshot just taken. The ‘70s, perhaps so memorable because I was finally what every kid dreams of… out on my own. When you’re 17, everything is vivid. The…
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By Howe “Slitboy” Salmon January 14-February 11, 1983 – Newsreal Photo: Phantom Limbs, 1985. Change is good, and so is growth and Tucson’s punk underground showed signs of both. It was a year that started off real wide– the scene was disjointed and so diversified. Some bands were real serious, they’d left town to do…
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Great catching up with Larry ‘Lars’ Miles from KLPX last week in Rocky Point! He has stories to share about Tucson Bands and Clubs and some lost studio interviews in the 70’s & 80’s. Larry & Ed June 2026 Also, while (not too) south of the border, I had the pleasure to catch up and…
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By Bryn Bailer Summer 1979 – Youth Awareness PressReprinted in “Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades,” Volume 1 From the outside, top radio station KTKT-99 AM appears to be nothing more than a one-story, adobe-colored building in the middle of desert scrub and surrounded by a ring of five towers. But it isn’t the building that has earned…
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By Constance CommonplaceFebruary 8, 1985 – NewsrealReprinted in “Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades,” Volume 1, page 96. I returned to Tucson in July ‘79, from a two-year desert break in Boston. Music in Bean Town was already at a rapid boil in terms of the “new wave” thing, and it was hard to leave knowing…
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By John ThompsonJuly 1991 – Entertainment Magazine. Page 15Reprinted from”Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades,” Volume 1, page 52. (Photo above: Walter “Shep” Cooke, he passed away November 7, 2022 at age 76). Shep Cooke has seen it all. After working for over 25 years in the music business, Cooke has seen the proverbial “big breaks” come…
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By Nick NicholasJanuary 1991 – Entertainment MagazineReprinted in “Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades,” Volume 1, page 44. Photo above: Dean Armstrong (he passed away on March 6, 2011). Photo by Bill Doyle. What more can be said which has already been said many times over for so many years about a well known and loved Tucson…
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Photo of Dearly Beloved, Newsreal Magazine, February 1985, cover. By Lee JosephFebruary 8-March 18, 1985 – Newsreal. Page 6Reprinted in “Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades,” Volume 1, page 38 In June of 1964 five young gentlemen, all with a great deal of musical ability, formed a pop group in Tucson, Arizona. Their name …. “Intruders.” They weren’t…
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In 1985, Tucson had only 376,195 residents. By the end of the 20th Century, it grew to 486,699 people living within the Tucson city limits. This influx of new Tucsonans not only brought new businesses, but also, new entertainment venues and entertainers. As 1984 ended, so did Rockefeller– Tucson’s number one hard rock venue. Mark Newman 3 took over the old…
