Blazing neon, a seventeen foot flocked tree, painted icicles, two-story candy canes and shiny new Cadillacs — it’s Christmas at Casa de - 1955
Recently a fine friend of mine, Mr. Stork went to work at this legendary San Fernando Valley automotive agency. While rummaging through a drawer he discovered this amazing slide which had not […]
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! […]
I had lunch at Farmers Market today and oh, was it good! It’s never easy for me to decide what to have there but upon a trustworthy recommendation I tried Magee’s famous corned beef on rye for the first time. It was the best I’ve EVER had. Far thicker than average slices of succulent, salty […]
Some say as American as apple pie. I say As AmeriCANA as Apple Pie. Apple Pie is one of the few edible icons of Americana. It’s really at the top of the list right alongside hot dogs, hamburgers, Jell-o, and let’s not forget ambrosia! I love apple pie - always have - always will. Not […]
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 […]
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