Archive for 2006
Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Pebbly-patterned wallpaper. A milk glass-trimmed floor lamp shaded with red-trimmed white ruffles. Above that, hanging on the wall, a hand carved mask fresh from the exotic import shop. And proudly placed on the corner bookshelf, flanked by portable radios, is a talking picture machine. The olive-grey, gold-framed tube says look at me. The giant knobs […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006

But first…
CHARLES PHOENIX’S DISNEYLAND TOUR OF DOWNTOWM LOS ANGELES is back!
– NEW TOUR DATES – Sundays Nov 5 & 12
For more info click here
For NOV 5 tickets
For NOV 12 tickets
Life is full of typos…especially my life! Last week I called the Beverly HILton Hotel the Beverly HILLS Hotel. So I’m a lousy proof-reader! Maybe […]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Terrace dividers are multi-colored for a very satisfying, grand scale pop art effect. The giant half-a-cat-food-can stylishly sticking out from the top floor certainly must be a semi-circular cocktail lounge. Street level orange stripes mark the 76 Gas Station at the Hotel’s entrance corner.
This spectacular slide was taken just months after the grand opening […]
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006

A trio of triple-plated, bullet nosed, chrome hairdryers. Style and substance-wise they are the ultimate in hair dying machines – not to mention an AMERICANA classic of the highest order. The red dot label reads NORMANDIE. Behind them as a backdrop is fancy style pink and grey wallpaper. Beneath them, and crowned ever-so-beautifully by them, […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006

The somewhat larger than life cutout oranges say Florida. He looks happier than she does and hold what might, just very well be, an empty milk glass cold cream jar.
I wonder if she knitted his sensible sweater vest. Whoever knitted it made it too short. It’s the thought that counts.
Whoever did the interior designer […]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Aloha!
This slide isn’t about the lovely lady tourist about to get the center back seam ripped out of her dress, no. It’s all about those triple-wide panoramic windows on that short-lived island-hopping DC 3. Apparantly these view-friendly flyers didn’t last long in the Hawaiian Airlines fleet. They wern’t structurally sound and shook alot.
This week […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006

A spotty line of spectators watch the action at a distance. Two grown up girls either are judging or cheering or both. One wears her denim cut full and rolled. The other parts her hair Rita Hayworth style. The contestants seem to be all young men and one young lady. She is second from the […]
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006

I love it when people decide to take their official new car portrait on the right shoulder of the Hollywood freeway in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Does anybody even take an official new car portrait anymore?
The sky is the haziest of pale blues. The monumental modern Federal Building stands as stately as […]
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