I have a special affection for the fabled city of Compton. Long before it became famous as a hot bed of hip-hop culture my mother grew up there in the 40s and 50s when it was just a typical working class suburban city. My grandmother was a housewife and my grandfather worked at the nearby […]
Going through other people old slides is a quite a treasure hunt. After a dozen years of collecting and looking through zillions I’ve been fortunate to find hundreds and hundreds of amazing images. But since the beginning I’ve been hoping to find slides taken at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Kodachrome slide photography was […]
A shoeshine boy totes his gear and enjoys a churro while he poses in passing for a picture taken by a tourist.
Olvera Street is Old Town Los Angeles. It’s one of the city’s greatest treasures and oldest tourist attractions. In fact it is the
Many of the shop and stand owners are children and grandchildren […]
The busiest intersection in town is bustling with activity. An electric streamliner street car heads north on Broadway. A banner blows in the morning breeze. Broadway is one of the few streets in Los Angeles that actually looks like a traditional big American city.
Lined with more department stores, specialty shops, eating places and movie palaces […]
Sit and spin! Second only to the Walt Disney Concert Hall the Bonaventure is the most unusual building downtown. Its shape and style is late- space-age architecture at its most extreme.
Ironically very similar looking structures were illustrated by legendary science fiction artist Frank R. Paul in the 1940s. Originally when it opened in 1977, it […]
It’s spring, 1963 – a time of major transition on Bunker Hill - a once fashionable Victorian-era neighborhood in Los Angeles.
With the erector-set like skeleton of what was to become the most spectacular mid-century building in the city, the Department of Water and Power, as a dramatic backdrop, a woman immortalizes an old Victorian house […]
This slide is marked: Holly, Sandra and the Powell’s, July 1. Holly is the man on the left. The man on the right is smoking. And the ladies are wearing gloves - how civilized! I hope they’re not planning on giving Chinatown the white glove test!
Chinatown is a spectacular themed environment that predated Disneyland by […]
Dress like an Arab and get in FREE (really!). There is only one place I know of where you can do that - the Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival in Indio, California. And thank goodness it’s that time of year again. The festivities continue February 13, 22, 2004.
Now’s the time to enjoy the […]
This is “Mr. and Mrs. Bobbysocks.” What they did in 1956, I did this last week. I went to Arizona. Yes, in Phoenix. I was there performing slide shows at Taliesin West for journalists flown in from around the country to preview the brand-spankin’ new 2005 PT Cruiser Convertible by Chrysler. On the days off […]
If the Jetsons ever went to Las Vegas, certainly this must be where they stayed and played. They would’ve felt so at home because after all it looks like it came straight out of their ultra out-of-this-world universe.
Designed in the late fifties, the Landmark is by far the spaciest hotel ever built. Howard Hughes was […]
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