Disappearing Dealers

[johnallg]

That's too close (read before) August, Charly!

[charlyg]

There's a big meeting tomorrow, so should know more then. The thing that scares me is we are the only ones considering the move who own a home. Not much leverage on a package that way IMHO.

[randyz]

Charly: A move to Dallas in July can be a shock. Although I've lived in the area for 37 years, I consider the summers here absolutely useless. Too hot to do anything outdoors. Unlike places like Arizona, it doesn't cool off at night. 102 during the day and 98 at night is kinda tough. That said, we have very mild winters and it's a nice place to live with lots of opportunities. Just don't let the weather scare you away when you first experience it!

[randyz]

Gene: Yes, the Larry Morgan store occupies the old Arnold and Morgan location. Every Saturday circa 1975-1976, me and my buddies would pull guitars off the wall and head into the amp room to make noise. I recall a visit to the store around 1980/1981 when they had one of every current Rickenbacker model on the wall. Dozens of Ricks. I had never seen anything like it. Everything from a 950 in Azureglo to a 360/12WB FG. I was blown away (and as a starving college student I couldn't afford any of them).

[squirebass]

"Everything from a 950 in Azureglo to a 360/12WB FG. I was blown away (and as a starving college student I couldn't afford any of them)."
Randy,
I know exactly what you are talking about!!! When I was in school they might have just put a price tag of $100,000 on all of them, they were so far from what I could afford. Fortunately, I've been lucky enough to gather a few together in my old age!
Charly,
I hate to say it, but Randy is right... July might be a real shock and the humidity over most of East Texas is high enough that it won't cool too much at night. But February is usually lovely!

[charlyg]

Well, I have been in Phoenix in Sept, when it was 106 at 10:00PM!! And we are both from SDak so we know a little about humid heat.

[randyz]

Gene: Back in those days the most expensive guitars in any stores were Les Pauls (old or new) for $500. I never imagined that I'd ever spend that much money on a guitar. Oh how times have changed...

[Scastles]

Charly, as another Texan, and a visitor on many occasions to Phoenix, the DFW area pales in comparison. Humid, yeah, but it isn't always in the one hundreds. The weather might turn a tad 'severe' on occasion, but you'll get use to it.

[kog]

I LIVE in Phoenix. We had our first 100 degree day last Saturday, just high 90s since. The hundreds will be real regular starting this month. The local "joke" (and we've killed people for less) is that "it's a dry heat". Har-de har.

Well, true, and it will cool off at nights, into late June (but then only into the high 70s). Then as you get into July-Aug-Sep, that's our "monsoon" season. Humidity jumps up (still not as bad as DFW or Florida or the midwest) but with the 100+ degrees AND humidity, it keeps us inside. Jumping in the pool is like taking a bath and you never dry off.

I've been here since 1960, and it USED to be a lot nicer and cooled off more radically at night. The Sonoran desert can actually get cold at night. But we're now larger in land area than Lost Angeles and the 5th largest city in the US, and with it we get the "heat island" effect and smog and all the other modern-day amenities that civilization grants us. But I've also lived in Alaska and El Lay and I keep coming back. Life in Phoenix still beats shoveling snow and avoiding the gang-bangers.

And that is my Travelogue/Al Gore Moment for today.

[johnallg]

With all the man-made lakes, ponds, resort fountains, Tempe's Salt River Marina, and all the swimming pools in the Phoenix valley, the average humidity has gone up a bit since my first trips out in the early 70s.

[sharkboy]

Or as we used to say in the part of the desert from whence I came, "they're heaves, but they're dry heaves."