Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gold Fox ($95), Dr. Seth Arnold's cough killer ($2), Dr. Fenner's Kidney & Backache Cure ($14) and a (misspelled) bottle of Kalamasoo heavy blob soda ($9.50). Of the moderns, Avon cologne and perfume bottles are most popular; an International Avon Collectors organization, headquartered in Mesa, Ariz., informs members of new issues. Novice collectors can seek guidance in books like Collecting Bottles, which covers the field, or Fruit Jars, which gets down to such specifics as how to tell a double safety from an acme...
...city of Grand Junction, Colorado sprawls out over a small piece of the Colorado Mesa Valley. It's population of 24,000 have gravitated there primarily because it is a "pretty place," according to one citizen. A rapidly developing population center, the city has clean streets, a couple newly built high schools, and it's own college scene, centered around Mesa College. In 1967, it won the All-American city award. Every year, the citizens host the national junior baseball tournament with teams coming from as far away as Miami, New York, and Houston...
...KARL THEMAN Mesa, Ariz...
They found a tiny bungalow on a treeless back street in Costa Mesa. Sam went back to blaming out "La Primavera" but it was already October in his blood and he couldn't concentrate. The new neighbors were friendlier than the old, convinced as they were that Sam was running a clandestine body shop in his garage. Everyone on Azulinda Avenue did something shady for a living, so the young Bollos at 1239A fit right...
...they set off for a Sunday afternoon swapout in the lot of an Anaheim drive-in. So much for Merilee to buy in order to transmogrify herself into a proper Samfrau. A refrigerator, a stove to replace the habachi she had been cooking on since the move to Costa Mesa, a huge musty Persian rug to sleep and meditate upon, and many other cosas. Trippy old hinges for doors, rubber plants which manufacture rubber-bands, a larger cage for Birdie. They flaired out of the lot at last with the dowery nearly spent, Sam quiet, and the TR sweating hard...