August 28, 2017August 29, 2017Movie Sets (Exterior) 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 […]
August 24, 2017August 24, 20172010s, Purveyors of Dark Places, Simulated Places 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 […]
August 13, 2017August 13, 20171950s, 1960s, Fantastic Living 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 […]
August 8, 2017February 8, 2018Movie Sets (Interior), Vintage Recreated 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 […]
August 3, 2017November 14, 2021People You've Never Heard Of 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 […]
August 1, 2017March 31, 2022Movie Sets (Exterior), Movie Sets (Interior), Simulated Places 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, […]