Red Head Redemption

 February  21, 2026

  Everyone knows black loves red.

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   Yes, I am always amazed at how the combination of black and red creates a dynamic-pop-poster effect. And, speaking of poster boys. . .

Three Bell Boys In Long Beach

That's my dad on the left, Allen P. Bell, age 40. And that's me, on the right, age 16. And in the middle—doing a jig—is my farmer grandfather, Carl Marvin Bell, age 76. He's three years younger than I am now. Wow.

   In 1963 my uncle Glenn Marvin Bell (my dad's younger brother) married a pretty girl from Council Bluffs, Iowa, and moved to Long Beach, California to teach school. So, my grandparents, still on the family farm north of Thompson, Iowa, drove out to Kingman and stayed with us a few days and then my dad drove us all to Long Beach in his new '62 Olds to visit those other Bells. I had just received an 8mm camera which my dad traded for a tank of gas to some broke people trying to make it the Promised Land (California) and we had just gone to a Lutheran church on Sunday in Long Beach and we were all dressed up waiting to go to a restaurant for a sitdown Sunday breakfast and we were standing on their patio, and my uncle Glenn took my movie camera and started filming. My grandfather started doing a jig (a show off Bell? What are the odds?), which I thought was hilarious and that's how this frame from the movie came about.

   Speaking of show-off Bells, here is a semi-painful photo from out of my radio past.

The Razz Band opening for the Beach Boys

   (Alternate title) I could'ah been a contender, if only I hadn't worn those pants.

"Well, east coast kids are hip I really dig those styles they wear. . .but I can't wait to get back in the sticks where the goobers from Kingman dress like dorks. . ."

—The Beach Boys, a paraphrasing of California Girls