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Charles Phoenix’s Retro Slide Show Tour of Southern California
“It is the age of space and we have just landed in the most modern metropolis on the planet…”
Celebrate how we lived, shopped, worked, played and partied in the 1940, 50s & 60s. Experience the ultimate era of car culture, suburbia, space age style, fast food stands, shopping centers, bowling alleys and drive-ins like you never have before. Visit the famous landmarks of Hollywood’s “golden era.” and take a peek behind the scenes of one of the most famous movies of all time. Tour Bunker Hill, downtown’s Los Angeles’s vanished Victorian neighborhood, and visit Knott’s Berry Farm, Marineland, and Disneyland when they were new and much, much, more-IN COLOR!
“… the sun-kissed Southern Californians seen here are clearly having the time of their lives. And so are we.”
– Los Angeles Times (Critic’s Choice)
“so entertaining we wish it would last forever…”
– LA Weekly (Pick of the Week)
Charles Phoenix’s Retro Vacation Slide Show Tour of the USA
“Our journey begins backing out of the driveway…”
See the sights, scenes and situations that inspired a generation of camera totin’ tourists to “say cheese” while traveling across this great country. Visit kitschy tourist traps and classic roadside attractions while staying in mom-and-pop motels. Enjoy fabulous Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami Beach and Waikiki. Experience world’s fairs, National Parks, big cities and America’s heartland while meeting meet “long lost relatives” all along the way and much, much more IN COLOR!
“Most Unique Theatrical Performance.” Award
“a revelatory gem…charming, eccentric and laugh-out loud funny”
Charles Phoenix’s Retro Disneyland Slide Show
“Ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention. Please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times…” as we go back in time to the granddaddy of all theme parks when it was new. This is the ultimate “E” Ticket to the Magic Kingdom in the 50s and 60s.
A live comedy performance created with amazing slides taken in the Magic Kingdom in the 50s & 60s—and more—IN COLOR!
Experience long-gone attractions like the Phantom Boats, Flying Saucers, Indian Village, the Carousel of Progress, and others. See the original attractions on Main Street USA, Adventureland, Fantasyland and Frontierland.
Explore the original Tomorrowland when it was when it promoted as “The World of 1987.” Then be there for the all-new Tomorrowland in 1967. Get the flaming back-story of the monorail, go inside the ultra space-age, all plastic House of the Future; take the TWA Rocket to the Moon and much, much more! including Freedomland USA, the ill-fated wannabe Disneyland theme park that opened in the Bronx 1960.
…THE BIG SHOW! …
Under the Stars at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood
Friday, May 11, 2007 8:30PM
A retro slide show celebrating 50s and 60s tourist traps, theme parks, space age style, car culture, parties people and much more in color …plus cooking “doggy-style” live on stage and more!…
THE CHARLES PHOENIX HOLIDAY JUBILEE
A Mid-Century Holiday Variety & Slide Show Shindig!
THIS WILL GET IN THE MOOD FOR THE HOLIDAYS FOR SURE!
REDCAT THEATER
in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex
Downtown Los Angeles
DECEMBER 17, 18, 19 & 20, 2007
A live comedy performance by “histo-tainer” Charles Phoenix celebrating kitschy and classic 50s, 60s & 70s holiday style…also featuring the legendary Bob Baker Marionettes, a vintage holiday yard ornament light show spectacular, seasonal musical stylings on the Hammond organ by the world’s greatest roller rink organist, a very special holiday ambrosia demo and ballet . . . yes, dessert will be served… and Mr Phoenix will be singing!
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