Haverhill’s and Its Whacked-Out Ads
Haverhill’s: a weird stuff-emporium of the 1960s and 1970s, with goofy ads in big magazines like LIFE. Let’s start with the name, […]
Author: Lee Wallender
Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.
Fake Americana With a Topping of Grit: 4 Aces Movie Ranch, Palmdale
4 Aces, located in Palmdale, California, is every Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford and B-Minus-film noir from 1949 to 1960 wrapped up […]
Joe Biden, Magnificent Trojan Horse of the Democratic Party
Few Presidential candidates have appeared to be faltering more than Joe Biden. The U.S. Presidential election is seven months away, and Biden’s […]
Death Behind Flagstone: Tom Neal, Palm Springs, and Studio City
Tom Neal was a middling movie actor from the late 1930s to the 1950s who was more known for his off-screen escapades […]
Farny: Mysterious Drop-Dead Death of Bette Davis’ Husband
An overactive imagination could come up with a scenario where Bette Davis kills her second husband, Arthur Farnsworth. After all, pick any […]
Bell Telephone Company Pittsburgh Office Snack Bar, 1960
June, 1960: The world is alive. From Architectural Forum, we hear of a snack bar. The 1,600 employees in the Bell Telephone […]
How Waiting in Line Is the Purest Form of Democracy
Nobody likes waiting in line. You’re waiting in line at the DMV, for concert tickets, movie tickets, at the theme park. In […]
Hong Kong Bank of China as Giant Protest Sign
As some of us sit around in the burgs and hamlets of the United States, knitting our fingers and wondering about the […]
Killed When Cleaning Gun: Alibis That Never Make Sense
In the annals of crime, crime fiction, and crime news stories even to this day is the phrase killed when cleaning the […]
Switchboard Receptionist School: Never Again
File this one in the annals of things that will never again exist: switchboard operator school. This ad from the June 1, […]