Who builds a polo field in Phoenix? It’s so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk and bake cookies on a car dashboard. Sometimes airplanes can’t fly. Answer: My great grandfather J.E. Thompson. Though J.E.’s gesture seems foolhardy, it may may have actually paid financial dividends. That sly fox! Joseph Edward, who belonged […]
Legendary Phoenix Funnyman Remembered for His Madcap Antics
Dr. Bill Webber remembers one particularly snowy day when his close childhood friend, the late Bill Thompson, burst into The Web’s second-story bedroom. There were a couple of feet of snow on the ground. “I’m going to give it a try,” announced Thompson, who became the legendary Wallace Sneed, host of The Wallace and Ladmo […]