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The coins are available in four options: pure 24K gold, 12 grams of pure 24K gold, 1 ounce of pure .999 silver and 10 grams of pure .999 silver.

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Collectible Scottsdale fi rm cashes in on ‘Yellow Submarine’

By Alex Gallagher

When The Beatles unveiled their 1968 animated film “Yellow Submarine,” the film was quickly immortalized with art, toy versions of the submarine and now, nearly fi ve and a half decades later, a limitededition coin.

Scottsdale-based The Crown Mint — an independent fi rm that develops products and packaging for the collectibles industry — recently announced it is selling 24kt pure gold or .999 silver coins shaped like the iconic yellow submarine in four weights and sizes. The coins are available for pre-sale on crownmint.com

“The Beatles are probably the most infl uential band in the history of rock and roll so it was a pretty obvious choice,” Crown Mint principal Steven Harris said.

“There are a lot of coin companies from around the world that went after that license for a long time. At one point, we were in direct competition with the Royal Mint — the company that produces circulating coins in the U.K. So, it’s a pretty big deal to have gotten that license over everybody else that’s been after it.”

It was also something of a dream come true for him.

Harris remembers sifting through pocket change alongside his father, looking for silver dimes and quarters. He started The Crown Mint in 2008, looking for ways to reintroduce younger people to coin collecting.

“These days, people don’t carry a lot of pocket change, so there isn’t that touchstone,” Harris said. “My thought was, ‘This is a really neat hobby, how do we get it and direct it towards a younger audience?’ I then thought a pop culture is a good tool that could work and so far, it has.”

The fi rst coins rolled out in 2013 and were authentic, legal tender coins based on the “Star Wars” films. With them, the Crown Mint became the fi rst company in the world to produce a legal tender coin that featured a major Hollywood property.

Since then, The Crown Mint has produced coins in conjunction with Coca-Cola, Marvel and The Rolling Stones before venturing into a yellow submarine and taking on the world of The Beatles this year.

“Ideally, we’re trying to get a younger group into collecting coins but in reality, we’re trying to get anybody into collecting coins,” Harris said. “So, you have to look at things that people are passionate about and one of those things certainly is music.”

When Harris began targeting music fans, there were two bands he eyed: The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.

“If you ask people, ‘What are the two biggest rock ‘n’ roll bands ever?’ I think the Beatles would certainly come up and I believe the Rolling Stones would also come up. So those were two groups that we targeted,” he explained.

However, The Beatles turned out to be more of a challenge than he anticipated.

The Crown Mint had to partner with Apple Corps Ltd. — the conglomerate created by the band in 1968 that controls The Beatles Property and is still owned by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

That wasn’t the only company that The Mint Collective had to persuade to make the vision of the “Yellow Submarine” coin a reality.

The deal had to also be brokered by Sony’s Thread Shop, the Beatles’ North American licensing agent.

However, once the two entities saw the work that The Crown Mint had done with other entities, it seemed like a no-brainer.

With the project green lighted, The Crown Mint produced submarine-shaped coins out of either 24K pure gold or .999 silver embossed with a golden yellow submarine that looks identical to the one featured in the fi lm.

The coins are available for pre-sale in four options: 1 ounce of pure 24K gold, 12 grams of pure 24K gold, 1 ounce of pure .999 silver and 10 grams of pure .999 silver and orders are expected to begin shipping out as early as September 16.

The coins sell for $129.95 on crownmint. com. 

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Waxing nostalgic on 50 years of McCormick Ranch memories

First masterplanned community brings rich history

By Joan Fudala

Much has, and will be, written about the “offi cial” history of Scottsdale’s (and Arizona’s) fi rst master-planned community, McCormick Ranch, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary this month.

Perhaps most treasured are the personal, unoffi cial memories made every day throughout the 4,200 acres known as The Ranch.

Let’s walk down that paseo together, and fondly remember: • You’re a Scottsdale old-timer (or heard stories from one) if you remember hunting quail in the area now known as McCormick Ranch from the early 1900s up to the 1940s, particularly in the area of The Slough, the Indian Bend Wash. • Did you know the Jolly family, who had a small farm in the 1920s to 1940s where the railroad park is today, or remember when Merle Cheney sold land to Anne and Fowler McCormick for Angus cattle and Arabian horse ranching in 1942? • Did you attend an early Arabian Horse Show at McCormick ranch in the 1950s or at their Paradise Park horse arena on the southwest corner of what is now Shea and the Loop 101 during the 1960s? • Did you visit Anne McCormick’s Indian Arts & Crafts Center during the 1950s/1960s on Pima Road, now the Hopi post offi ce site? • After Fowler McCormick sold the 4,200acre ranch to Kaiser-Aetna in 1970 for $12.1 million, the Kaiser-Aetna planning/construction offi ce operated from the McCormick’s former home on the northeast corner of Indian Bend and Scottsdale roads. Did you fi nd an excuse to visit K-A’s general manager Dick Boultinghouse or Planning Director George Fretz to you could marvel at Mrs. McCormick’s beloved rose garden? Perhaps you attended a charity event in the house, like the fi rst annual Fiesta benefi t for the Scottsdale Foundation for the Handicapped in 1973. • Were you a volunteer (or sidewalk superintendent) during construction of the McCormickStillman Railroad Park, 1971-75? Did you attend the grand opening of the park October 4, 1975, watching Mayor Bill Jenkins and Guy Stillman ride the Paradise & Pacifi c train through the ceremonial ribbon? • Have you played The Ranch’s two 18-hole golf courses? McCormick Ranch Golf Course’s Palm Course opened March 16, 1972, the Pine course the following year. Desmond Muirhead was course designer; John Ward the fi rst golf course director/head professional. A temporary clubhouse opened on the north side of McCormick Parkway, just east of Scottsdale Road until the permanent facility could be built. Did you attend some of the major golf tournaments held there, like the 1973 Sun Devil-Phoenix Thunderbirds collegiate tourney in 1973, the American Airlines Celebrity Golf Classic in either 1977 or 1978 that featured major league sports stars or a National Junior College Championship? • How long have you been part of the McCormick Ranch Property Owners’ Association since it was incorporated September 21, 1972? Did you know the fi rst families who moved into homes on McCormick Ranch? Richard and Nikki Kriss and their two children moved into a home on Via del Futuro, followed by Pat and Ted Stump and their two children, who moved into their home on Via del Futuro on January 12, 1973.

The fi rst homes built in the early 1970s in McCormick Ranch’s Paseo Village area north of Indian Bend and along Hayden Road. (Zina Kuhn/Submitted)

Sailboats on Camelback Lake were a common sight in 1980s McCormick Ranch. (Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce/Submitted)

Opened in 1984, Scottsdale Memorial Hospital-Shea had

expanded by this 1990 photo. (Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted)

Suggs and Ponderosa were the homebuilders in Phase I’s Paseo Village. According to the September 1992 Scottsdale Progress, “When the Stumps moved in coyotes were still running wild over the property, there was no postal delivery and no garbage pickup. The Stumps and the Krisses used to take turns picking up each other’s mail at the Osborn Street station.” They also didn’t have telephone service for months. • Did you use the North Branch Library in the ‘bunkhouse’ at the railroad park during the years it was open, 1974 to about 1978? Or have you enjoyed Mustang Library on 90th Street since it opened in 1987. • Have you stayed, attended meetings or enjoyed a meal at what was opened in summer 1975 as The Inn at McCormick Ranch? It has been branded/ named a Clarion, Regal, Millennium and is now The McCormick Scottsdale. Remember jazz performances in the lounge and the view of Camelback Lake from The Pinon Grill? • Do you remember the variety of early shops, restaurants and services that were in The Ranch’s fi rst shopping center, Paseo Village? Like Alpha Beta (ABCo), Gentlemen’s Closet, Shrake’s Pharmacy, A Touch of Class, Needle-Mania, Prestige Cleaners (among the longest tenants), Sprouse-Reitz, Town & Country Furniture, The Little Gym, McDonald’s (with historic photos of the McCormick’s cattle/horse ranch on the walls), Trinity Church, and so many others. • The Scottsdale Conference Resort opened on McCormick Parkway in 1976. Did you attend a dinner theater performance (1976), the Kruse classic car auction (1978), play tennis at the resort’s Racquet Club, or, more recently, attend a Scottsdale History Hall of Fame induction dinner there? Perhaps you celebrated a special occasion in the resort’s former Palm Court, where gourmet dinners were prepared tableside, au fl ambe. The late Marvin Hamlisch and Rosemary Clooney each performed at benefi ts at the resort, now known as The Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch. • Remember Monterey Jacks, which opened on McCormick Parkway in 1976? It became the Monterey Whaling Company and has been the Chart House for decades. Or how about these restaurants that have been around The Ranch over the years: McCormick Ranch Restaurant, Rick’s Café Americana, Buster’s, Paradise Pinata del Pueblo, Sydney’s Pizza, El Paso BBQ (where Terry Bradshaw cut the ribbon in 1996), The Brioche at The Registry, Sunday brunch at The Registry’s Phoenician Room, Royal Barge Thai Cuisine, Eddie Chan’s, The Gourmet Pizza Co., The Anderson House, Spaghetti Company, Roy’s, Marilyn’s First, Franco’s Trattoria, Hops! Bistro and Brewery, Nello’s, Chevy’s, Applebee’s, Foster’s Seafood, Chili’s, Royal China? • Were you surprised when The Registry Resort (rebranded as a Radisson), which opened in December 1977, was razed for redevelopment in 2005? Countless community events were held there, from the Scottsdale Chamber’s tradeshows and

A plaque at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park honors the impact Anne and Fowler McCormick had on the park, McCormick Ranch and From 1956 through the 1960s, the All Arabian Horse Show was held annually on the McCormick’s Ranch and their Paradise Park show arena. (Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted) Opened in 1976 as the Scottsdale Conference Resort, it was renamed the Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch. Ken McKenzie, Rachel Sacco and Mayor Jim Lane cut the reopening ribbon in September 2015. (Joan Fudala/Submitted)

annual luncheons, to City Council candidate forums, a performance by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and numerous charity benefi ts. The resort’s Racquet Club hosted major tennis tournaments, including several Bert Convy Celebrity Tennis tournaments in the mid-1980s, a Prudential-Bache Securities Grand Champions Tennis Tournament in 1984 and the Butch Walt & Friends Tennis Exhibition (featuring John McEnroe) in 1986. Walt became the resort’s director of tennis. • Have you been a member of one of the many clubs in The Ranch? The Scottsdale Railroad & Mechanical Society since 1971, Kiwanis Club of McCormick Ranch since 1977, McCormick Ranch Women’s Association since 1978, Sunrise Rotary Club since 1983, and many others. • Remember shopping at some of The Ranch’s former stores: Alpha Beta, Reay’s Market, Smith’s, Smitty’s, ProPhoto, Blockbuster Video, Mrs. Fields, Famous Amos, Del Lago Fashions, I Love You Gift Shop, Super X Drugs, CompUSA, Stein Mart, Paddock Pools, the Pima Crossing Antique Mall…or banking at Continental, Valley National or 1st Interstate Banks, just to name a few? • Perhaps you’ve been a patient, visitor or generous donor since HonorHealth has had a presence in McCormick Ranch starting in 1978 when then-named Scottsdale Memorial opened the Kenneth M. Piper Family Health Center on Shea near 90th Street. First Lady Nancy Reagan was the honored guest in January 1984 for the dedication of Scottsdale Memorial Hospital-Shea. The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center opened in December 2001. HonorHealth’s corporate headquarters is also located in The Ranch at Hayden and Via de Ventura. • Remember reading Hoyt Johnson’s The Rancher (198183) which became Scottsdale Scene magazine? Seeing the Prestige Cleaners hot air balloon flying over The Ranch? Sailing on Camelback Lake? Enjoying a Kiwanis pancake breakfast in the Paseo Village shopping center parking lot? Watching the 1978 Fiesta Bowl Marathon runners cross the fi nish line at the railroad park? Taking the family to the railroad park for a summer concert, RailFair or Holiday Lights? Attending or sending your children to Cochise Elementary School, which opened in 1980? Enjoying Comanche, Shoshone, Zuni, Mountain View city parks? Attending the city’s annual Veterans Day event at the railroad park since 1989? Watching water spew from Public Art’s horse sculptures along Indian Bend Road following a big rainstorm? Shopping at Antigua’s annual parking lot sale when the embroidery company was located on 94th Way? Surviving the disruption of Pima Freeway construction in the late 1990s that closed Pima Road permanently (now we can’t imagine life without Loop 101)? • Watching as real estate values in McCormick Ranch have risen dramatically? In 2012, the average sale price was $419,268 ($170 per square foot). In 2017, the average sale price was $589,035 ($233 per square foot). Over the past 12 months, the average sale price was $1,083,710 ($433 per square foot). During this same 10-year period, the scope of project work has gone from interior remodeling and enhancements to full renovations and new construction projects, with fi nished values far exceeding $2 million, according to the property owners’ association. • Looking to the future, the McCormick Ranch Property Owners’ Association (MRPOA) is committed to building on the values and principles that have made McCormick Ranch such a desirable location. • “Our strategic plan was fi rst adopted with the 2012 budget,” said MRPOA Executive Director Jaime Uhrich. “We updated it in 2016 to include strategies to ensure the health and vitality of the Ranch for the next decade. Today, after 50 years, McCormick Ranch remains a thriving community in the heart of Scottsdale. Although changes have been made, the essence of McCormick Ranch remains intact — a neighborly community of people who fi nd the Ranch an exceptional place to live life to the fullest.”

So many memories yet to make around McCormick Ranch; so many opportunities to shop, dine and use the services of today’s McCormick Ranch businesses. Enjoy the next 50 years at The Ranch! 

Designed by Desmond Muirhead, the McCormick Ranch Golf Courses opened in 1972-73 and have hosted major tournaments as well as family outings. (Joan Fudala/Submitted) The McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park opened in October 1975 on land donated to the city of Scottsdale by the McCormicks. This photo shows an empty lot behind the sing on the northeast corner of Scottsdale and Indian Bend roads, not the site of The Seville shopping center. (Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted) The Inn at McCormick Ranch opened on Scottsdale Road in 1975; it is now known as The McCormick Scottsdale.

(Scottsdale Historical Society/Submitted)

SEPTEMBER 2022

Business Horoscopes

By Weiss Kelly, PMAFA

ARIES 3/21-4/20

Pace yourself, Aries. Move in slow motion from September to November. Make no decisions or unnecessary commitments. Use caution in any legal matters. starting the weekend of the 10th. Use the third half of September to chill out and catch up on work-related and personal promises.

Personal power days: September 11 and September 12

TAURUS 4/21-5/20

Last month’s eclipses threw you and the world for an emotional, climatic, economic, political psychological loop. It will continue to aff ect your business. Conditions seem to change moment to moment, so be prepared to reappraise values. Mars acts as a verbal warrior.

Personal power days: September 13, September 14 and September 15 VIRGO 8/23-9/22

Come up with a to-do list and follow through by September 10, the full moon. Your end-of-summer plans are apt to be changed as Mars, the action hero planet, enters Gemini, the brain sign, for the next seven months. Take a conservative approach to money.

Personal power days: September 23, September 24 and September 25

GEMINI 5/21- 6/21

September has a long list of concerns, beginning with our worldwide weather patterns. There are six planets going retro in the weeks ahead. Mars — the action planet that makes things happen — will remain in your sign through March. Your mind is on fi re. A verbal/mental war of challenges allows you to fi nally “get your act together,” provided you stop the procrastinating.

Personal power days: September 16 and September 17

CANCER 6/22-7/22

Don’t end this summer by packing up and going to the seashore. Developing events (September 1 to September 23) are big deals for the United States and all matters related to family life, including the “behind-the-scenes” energies in the months ahead. Prioritize and organize through September 23.

Personal power days: September 18, September 19 and September 20 rocked your world. Take care of yourself between September 1 and September 30. Keep intellectual advanced thinking in the technical world from September 7 to September 21. Delay important agreements. Through your networking skills, others will notice you. Take your time in personal matters.

Personal power days: September 7 and September 21

LIBRA 9/23-10/23

You may have to put in a little down time. Back track from September 10 until the end of the month. In September and October, the energy changes the rules for survival. You’ll need to cut back on services and supplies. You have a lot to focus on while building new alliances.

Personal power days: September 26 and September 27

SCORPIO 10/24-11/21

Let go of turmoil. It’s over with. Full moons (September 10) are good for completions, not beginnings. That may occur in October. There may be lot of fi nancial tricks being played this month; the stock market looks like the chess board. Don’t believe everything Wall Street is predicting. Mars will remain in the intellectual sign of Gemini through January.

Personal power days: September 28 and September 29

SAGITTARIUS 11/22-12/21

September’s busy planetary month may not allow you to be on your own. “They”—whoever “they” are—will take the lead now to areas of communication and travel. Thinking of updating your resume? Travel, education, legalities, politics, sports, military and foreign goods have an eff ect on your job for the next six months. Underline September 1 to September 25 to review personal plans or matters you have been ignoring. Attend social or business meetings September 23 to September 30.

Personal power days: September 3, September 4 and September 30

CAPRICORN 12/22-1/19

One of your more productive but frustrating months of the year requires making some last-minute adjustments. The full moon on September 10 in the water sign of Pisces suggests the delay of big projects. If an agreement has not been met, then let it go with a blessing.

Personal power days: September 5 and September 6

AQUARIUS 1/20-2/18

Spring 2023 will be a game changer for you. Expect many technical medical breakthroughs and a more compromising approach to current local issues and demands. September brings a brainstorm of info for you to digest. You can apply that to your work. Midmonth sun enters Libra on September 23. Our voices will be heard.

Personal power days: September 7 to September 8

PISCES 2/19-3/20

With Jupiter in your own sign in late October, you’ll have the confi dence to get out of your comfort zone. Finances may require a bit of downsizing as food costs rise rapidly. Communication snafus require you to take nothing as truth. This month brings storms, hurricanes fi res, fl ooding and a health crisis. The good news is there may be medical breakthroughs.

Personal power days: September 9 and September 10 

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