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Blowout! Between Phoenix and Tucson, AZ, 1958

Friday, June 20th, 2008 \"slide\"

I hate when this happens! Don’t you? Getting a flat speeding down the highway in a 1958 Oldsmobile hauling a trailer in the blazing heat of the noontime sun is not exactly the sort of thing one might want to remember. It could’ve been worse. He could’ve lost control but he didn’t. He managed to […]

STORYLAND, NEAR POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA, 1956

Friday, June 13th, 2008 \"slide\"

Breeze-blown pennants mark the entrance of a children’s nursery rhyme theme park. Be careful the bridge that you must cross is dangerous. A little one could easily fall through the rails right into the make-believe mote. Like Disneyland, the granddaddy of all theme parks, guests entered Storyland though a fairy tale castle.
A green garden […]

The Long, Long Trailer, Somewhere, USA, 1958

Friday, June 6th, 2008 \"slide\"

Size really does matter! It should be called the longest trailer. Certainly it must be. The highway hog is a rather stylish and very deluxe creation with that smart two-tone turquoise and white paint scheme. Those porthole windows on both the front and back door are amazing. I know!
The enormous home away from home on […]

S&M at GSU, Atlanta, GA 1956

Friday, May 30th, 2008 \"slide\"

Two university students perched on a crunched-up-crepe-paper-cross between a terrier and weenie dog parade a little s&m for a crowd of stadium spectators. A big, blue clown-dog watches the action. Those matching black hoods and short capes over red jumpsuits are quite a contrast to the wholesome all-white dress of the crossed armed college […]

SKATING ASS, INDIO, CA 1960

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 \"slide\"

People parked at the curb line the main street for the annual date festival parade. Among the paraders is a snow white ass. This is not any old ordinary barnyard ass. This is an ass with special skills. It’s has roller skates attached to its hooves and its roller skating down the street. I […]

SKATELAND, SOMEWHERE, USA, 1965

Friday, May 9th, 2008 \"slide\"

Young skaters dressed in blue solids, strips and plaids stand out against the warm stained wood and banana yellow tones of the rink. it looks like “Little Mr. Shifty Eyes,” on the left, is looking at the lovely young lady or the young man beside her who is skating l like Frankenstein. They are all […]

RED FORD AT THE RANCH HOUSE, SOMEWHERE, CA, 1962

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 \"slide\"

The mid-morning sky is moody blue with high clouds. The Ranch Kitchen Coffee Shop looks like a ranch house complete with a front porch and shuttered windows. The signage is friendly, casual and very inviting. Dining room and kitchen quality and cleanliness are insured by the AAA logo.
A not-so-weeping weeping willow matches the leafy […]

Family Trio - Accordion Duet, Somewhere, USA, 1962

Saturday, April 26th, 2008 \"slide\"

A mommy, daddy and daughter are professionally posed in a photographer’s studio. Of course they’re all dressed up. Mommy and Missy have just been to the beauty parlor. Each sports a stylish variation of the poodle do and both have fuchsia pink painted lips. And there is a pearly white theme happening here.
Mommy’s pearl […]

Angeles Abbey, Compton, CA, 1955

Saturday, April 19th, 2008 \"slide\"

Three palms on one side, two on the other and an almost-centered flagless flagpole compliment one of Southern California’s least known architectural treasures.
According to the legend the builder of the Angeles Abbey Memorial Park sent two architects to India in 1922 for inspiration. Two years later this Byzantine-Moorish-Spanish hybrid style Castle-esque mausoleum, was standing […]

 
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