Cheap and Easy Dreams: Spadrom Estates and Herbert Heftler
Located in Anaheim, California, Spradrom Estates was a $7.5 million development of 486 homes that broke ground in 1956. It’s still there. […]
Category: 1950s
Cutaways from the 1950s (1950 to 1959).
No Down Payment (1957)
No Down Payment begins peppy and optimistic as the two central characters, a couple, move to Sunrise Hills, a Southern California suburb. […]
Doctor’s Estate Mysteriously Willed to Secretary and Not to His Wife
In 1951, Dr. Roy Campbell committed suicide in his office at 814 1/2 S. Alvarado, Los Angeles. Dr. Campbell’s will, which was […]
Men in War (1957): Surprisingly Good “Lost Platoon” Movie
One more step and I’ll fill your guts with lead. That’s the tagline on one of “Men in War’s” posters, with Aldo […]
Mickey Cohen Brings Max Tannenbaum Out to L.A.
Sure, there’s a copy of Case of the Half-Wakened Wife by that Perry Mason writer underneath your glass of iced Seagram’s, its […]
Go for Broke! (1951): a Film Out of Its Time
Judging by Go for Broke‘s posters and related promotional material, you’d think that this Robert Pirosh picture is yet another post-WWII jingoistic […]
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 […]
“The Mob” (1951): Unsung Film Noir With Stellar Cast
In some kind of dream classic film world, you would watch a movie with Broderick Crawford, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Kiley, Neville Brand, […]
Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
The Year 2000–as it was called before 2000–is looking awfully distant with each passing year. Will it ever happen? And what I […]
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. […]