August 2, 2018August 2, 20182010s, Invisible Places, Secret Spaces The East Cut, San Francisco: When a PR Agency Renames Your Neighborhood Imagine that the name of your neighborhood, which has been established for over a century, doesn’t sit well with a local business association. […]
July 7, 2017July 7, 2017Purveyors of Dark Places, Secret Spaces Dan Bell, Chronicler of Dark Spaces Dan Bell, or This Is Dan Bell, as his YouTube channel is called, has now been added to the annals of greatness […]
July 6, 2017Secret Panels, Secret Spaces Make a Secret Wall Hiding Place That No One Will Ever Find If you’re looking for a secret wall hiding place, YouTube and other recesses of the Web usually point you to a method […]
February 14, 2013May 26, 20172010s, Secret Spaces, Themeparks Disneyland Matterhorn Cutaway, 2012 A nice, recent cutaway drawing of the Matterhorn at the Anaheim, CA Disneyland. This graphic, from the February 8, 2012, Orange County […]
December 19, 2009May 26, 2017Secret Spaces, Themeparks Disney’s RiverCountry Rotting in Fittingly Ballardian Way In 1976, RiverCountry opened up at Walt Disney World in Florida. By 2001, it had closed. Now, it stands–rotting and decrepit in […]
July 18, 2009March 2, 20172010s, Secret Spaces Kim Jong Il Houses and Compound Even to me, it seems funny that you can locate the house of a feared dictator and killer and all-round Bad Boy […]
July 3, 2009March 2, 2017Secret Spaces Secret Submarine Base? The always-transparent China has been building a submarine base near Sanya, on Hainan Island off its southern coast. This represents a further […]
July 2, 2009March 2, 2017Secret Spaces Dr. No’s Crab Cay Lair As far as villains’ lairs go, the island hideout of Bond character Dr. No is the template from which many other fictional […]
June 22, 2009March 2, 2017Movie Sets (Interior), Secret Spaces “Volcano Redoubt” – Short Movie about You Only Live Twice Set by Ken Adam
June 22, 2009March 2, 2017Movie Sets (Interior), Secret Spaces Volcano Redoubt in You Only Live Twice (Film – 1967) The true face of the James Bond series, at least throughout the Sixties and Seventies, isn’t Sean Connery. It’s a German-born set […]