A giant chicken nests on a pick-up truck parked in front of a Chrysler-Plymouth dealer. Behind it in the window a coral ‘56 Chrysler Windsor is on display. What the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile is to Oscar Meyer the Chicken Dinner Candy Truck is to Chicken Dinner Candy.
Yes, there really was a candy called […]
Southern Californians are very lucky because the LOS ANGELES COUNTY FAIR is the BIGGEST and most WONDERFUL county fair in the world. Every year I recommend the gigantic kitsch fest to even my most jaded and snooty friends - and they love it too!!! And if you think the fair is beneath your station in […]
How-DEE - (like Minnie Pearl said it!
This week’s slide, THE LUER "QUALITY MEAT" ROCKET SHIP, SUNLAND, 1955, is one of my all time favorite finds.
Yes, I shrieked, then wept when I found it. Btw, you may find it in my latest book SOUTHERN CALIFORNIALAND: MID-CENTURY CULTURE IN KODACHROME, and many of you have seen […]
The 1960 Plymouth Fury is one of the most spectacular cars of the space age! First of all, the name, FURY! It’s the only car ever named for violent anger or rage. How weird is that? That pointy front fender; the shape of the wheel wells and yes, just in case you didn’t notice, those […]
Mom is looking at the scenery with binoculars and the little girl waves to daddy who’s taking the picture. They are very stylish people traveling in a two-tone turquoise and white 1956 Plymouth Belvedere and a pink and white Dalton Trailer.
Of course I love old trailers!!! It’s amazing just how many old trailer courts and […]
Last Saturday Evening after giving the “Theme Park” Tour of Downtown Los Angeles, I wound up celebrating with friends at the revolving cocktail lounge high atop the Bonaventure Hotel. Dusk ended and the night began as we sat there drinking and taking in the ever changing view of the neighboring skyscrapers and twinkling lights of […]
It is the largest airplane ever built - far larger than the world’s biggest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380, unveiled earlier this week in France. The Spruce Goose’s tail is almost eight stories high - the wingspan wider than three football fields. Really it’s a cargo ship with wings.
Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose for […]
A pilot stands waiting for a ride. Five station wagons including a black ’63 Ford Falcon Squire and white ’64 Dodge crowd the loading and unloading zone. Suitcases sit on the curb. Yes, a typical airport scene with one exception - the terminal is straight out of a sci-fi fantasy.
Unique in every way, shape and […]
The sweeping spear, sky high rear window and eye-catching tailfin trim on this two-toned space-age spectacular 1959 Chrysler Saratoga, combined with the gentle curve of a barrel vault roofline, twin gooseneck lights craning toward very sober signage and sort-of checkerboard windows, provide a most unexpected backdrop for this impromptu family portrait.
Like bowling alleys and miniature […]
This is a great slide, one of the most colorful station wagon shots I’ve ever run across. The gas station attendant checking under the hood while he’s fillin’ it up with Ethyl is the perfect finishing touch. The location wasn’t marked on the slide and I don’t recognize it so I just call it […]
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