Wearing only pants and accessorized with a personalized belt buckle and ranger hat, this is the largest statue anywhere of the legendary best friend and protector of America’s forests. The 26-foot statue was dedicated in 1954 and stands there to this very day.
In the world of spokes-characters none are as noble, and few are as […]
And now for this week’s Slide of the Week: HONEYMOON IN A BAR, SOUTHWESTERN, PENNSYLVANIA, 1957
This slide is marked “first dance.” I have no idea who this just-married couple is but I do know that the bar has a mesmerizing interior. Knotty pine paneling, cozy brick fireplace, a dead deer head and double spot lit […]
Last week I had a pop-culture experience of the highest order. I was headed south on the 405 just past Long beach on my way to a Southern Californialand book signing at Book Soup at South Coast Plaza. It was rush hour and traffic was stop-and-go, of course. Then suddenly my spirit was soaring in […]
Collecting and going through other peoples old slides is always a time-travel adventure. A couple of weeks ago a friend invited me over to see his family slides. In between wonderful shots of his grandparents living the life on Lido Isle in Newport Beach in the 50s and 60s, I ran across this one and […]
This slide of the week: PRESIDENT KENNEDY ON TELEVISION, 1963, was inspired by my visit to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza in Dallas last week. Having just watched a video of an ABC NEWS special aired last November about that fateful day in Dallas forty years ago, my Kennedy-curiosity was as peaked as […]
This week’s slide, TEXAS STATE FAIR, 1954, DALLAS TEXAS was inspired by my trip here today to do a slide show for the Dallas Video Festival. I never confuse slides with video but I guess they do -oh well. Anyway what a whirl wind day it’s been. From the time that I stepped off the […]
Gracefully spanning the Will Rodgers Turnpike in Vinita, Oklahoma, this is the world’s fastest drive-thru, the Glass House Restaurant. The fine folks at Conoco Oil brought us this miracle of modernity in 1957. It was the first restaurant constructed over a United States public highway and the simple solution to cater to motorists passing in […]
In my hometown of Ontario, five years ago when I was running around out there looking for images to include in my first book, Cruising the Pomona Valley 1930 thru 1970, I ran across this amazing slide. I got it from the owner of the Hot Dog Show, Norma Jones. I wonder if she ever […]
This week’s Slide of the Week is the cover of my new book: Southern Californialand: Mid-Century Culture in Kodachrome, which has just been released. Wouldn’t you just love to hop in that 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz and be whisked away on a tour of Southern California in the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s? Well you can! […]
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s it seemed like every family took home movies. My family did - with a super 8 movie camera. I loved the sound of the film turning inside of it. For a couple of years, around the time I was about nine or ten, my parents […]
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