November 19, 2020November 19, 20201970s Houlihan’s Old Place: The Era of the Funky Themed Restaurant It was the post-hippie era, early- to mid-Seventies, but the hippie influence had permeated into the lives of regular citizens and lingered […]
June 28, 2020July 14, 20211970s, ApexUSA, People You've Never Heard Of Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur: Pure Palm Springs Attitude Getting invited by friend Nelda Linsk to her home in 1970 for a casual photo shoot immortalized Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur.
June 6, 2020Contemplations Death Pledge: Our Love Affair With Mortgages Be tipped off to the fact that “mort,” meaning “death,” in French, is part of the word “mortgage.” It’s like the hired […]
June 6, 2020June 6, 20201960s, 1970s, Movie Sets (Exterior), Themed Environments Paramount Studios, 1970: Let’s Film on the Studio Today One sub-niche of 1960s and 1970s television is the show that demonstrates the studio backlot for what it is. It’s a fascinating […]
April 28, 2020April 28, 20201960s, 1970s, ApexUSA, Things You've Never Heard Of 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, […]
April 27, 2020April 28, 20201940s, 1950s, ApexUSA, Movie Sets (Exterior), Movie Sets (Interior), Themed Environments 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 […]
April 21, 2020June 28, 2020Writing 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 […]
April 18, 2020April 19, 20201960s, 1970s, This Happened Here 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 […]
April 17, 2020July 5, 20211940s, Things You've Never Heard Of, This Happened Here 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 […]
February 15, 20201960s, ApexUSA 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 […]