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 […]
Category: 1940s
Cutaways from the 1940s (1940 to 1949).
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 […]
Man-Eating Sex Queen of Great Neck, New York, Dorothea Matthews
This English Tudor house, located at 201 Clent Road, Great Neck, New York, may not look like much of a love nest. […]
When a Lowly Writer of Pirate Tales Found His Way
He was old, his wife sick, he had lost his job, and he was drinking too much. It didn’t help that the […]
Woody Guthrie’s Song “Deportee”: Connecting Names With Bodies
It was a plane crash that killed 32 people, largely Mexican nationals, and spawned Woody Guthrie’s poem that later became the song […]
May They Forever Be Old: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Death at Age 44
Growing old means that people you once viewed as old are now younger than you. Life is always safest when you are […]
The Strange Case of the U.S. Soldier Who Talked 162 Germans Into Surrendering
As with so many war stories, this one is hazy and sounds like it’s ready-made for a movie. Particulars are hard to […]
Lee Van Cleef, Official Badass and Savior of Little Dogs
Everybody knows the Lee Van Cleef of late 1960s spaghetti Westerns. So why should I put him in the category of People […]
B-24 Liberator Bomber Cutaway Drawing, 1943
Naturally, in the popular press of the time, Consolidated Vultee’s B-24 Liberator bomber would be hailed as a magnificent fighting machine, capable […]
Wright Cyclone Engine World War 2 Aircraft Cutaway, 1945
This was a fictional Second World War aircraft meant to illustrate the Wright Cyclone engine (located in the engine cowling, #10) on […]