The Real-Life Airflite Cafe from Twilight Zone’s “100 Yards Over the Rim”
In Twilight Zone’s second season show, “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” (1961), Christian Horn, the leader of a wagon train from […]
Month: August 2017
Alex Prager’s Cinematic Dreamspaces
I will not name the well-established artist who I’m sure Alex Prager’s work is often compared to, but I will say that, like […]
Golden Age of the Intercom
Remember the great age of home intercoms? I don’t either! That’s because in the 1960s and 1970s, home intercoms were not found […]
Tour I Love Lucy’s Fictional Beverly Palms Hotel
It’s the part of the I Love Lucy TV series that stands out in so many viewers’ minds: Hollywood and the Beverly […]
Theodore Marcuse: Character Actor Destined for Greatness, Cut Down in His Prime
Theodore Marcuse brought gravitas to the decidedly airy, unsubstantial world of 1960s television. Theodore Marcuse cross-sectioned the world network TV at that […]
Universal Studios 1972: Scenes from a Studio on a Verge of a Boom
With these photos of Universal Studios in 1972, understand the context: this was the studio at one of its lowest points. Its big, […]