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“Adamson himself was described as an unemotional braggart, a man who talked of hitting it big, a tough guy who probably saw himself as the major heavy in a minor film. His world seemed to revolve around a series of bars and cocktail lounges on and around North Central Avenue in downtown Phoenix — Durant’s, the Phone Booth, Navarre’s, La Strada, Smuggler’s Inn, and the Ivanhoe Cocktail Lounge.”
— Jon Bradshaw, “The Death of a Reporter Who Knew Too Much,” New York magazine, Sept. 6, 1976.
Before John Harvey Adamson became notorious in the annals of Arizona true crime, he was a well-known customer to the restauranteurs, bartenders and cocktail waitresses of Central Phoenix…