This is Mrs. Polehugger “gettin’ her kicks,” just like the song suggests, “on route 66!” I have no idea what this woman’s real name is but I do know she holds onto poles wherever she goes. She is really hugging America’s Mother Road, as John Steinbeck called Route 66 in his 1940 novel the Grapes […]
So Tulsa’s legendary buried car emerges extra crispy and golden brown like it’s been battered and deep-fried like a piece of chicken. It’s shocking. People gasp. Some cry. How could this happen? How could the vault it was buried in have leaked? Why didn’t they do a better job? So many questions…so few answers. The […]
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 […]
I love to eat out. Always have and always will. Growing up, my family regularly went out to dinner on Friday and Saturday nights and out to breakfast on Sunday morning. And if you count going to McDonalds for lunch - going out -we did that too - a lot!
These days whenever possible I avoid […]
Last week I WENT TO THE ENCHANTED FOREST WITH PEE-WEE HERMAN!
Paul-Pee-Wee Herman-Reubens and I were among a small group invited by a mutual friend to visit her family’s historic camp deep in the Adirondack Mountains. As fate would have it we were five miles from the Enchanted Forest, a children’s storybook theme park now […]
The world’s largest neon mural made this the most spectacular drive in ever built in Southern California and the centerpiece of the valley it was named for.
With a beautiful blue sky, majestic mountain range and Santa Barbara Mission as a dramatic backdrop, a Native American, on the right, and a priest, on the left, […]
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When I first glanced at this slide I thought I was looking at an old docked river boat. But no! After a closer look I discovered that the Lincoln Highway’s most famous landmark is a fake. It looks so real; those […]
Strung pennants blowing in the breeze, an Arden Ice Cream truck passing by and a Ford convertible parked at the curb provide a perfect backdrop for Los Angeles’s most playful architectural icon. The famous fast food stand is world class. There is no better place in the known universe to enjoy a hot dog.
There are […]
On the marquee: EXOTIC CANTONESE CUISINE - DANCING TONIGHT - POLYNESIAN FLOOR SHOW. Near the marquee: A 1959 Rambler.
Last week I couldn’t leave San Diego without enjoying a tiki-taste-treat sensation of the highest order — the lunch buffet at the Bali Hai. Architecturally the restaurant is a cross between a Tiki hut and a flying […]
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 […]
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