Dry-Land Submarine Trainer, 1950
Its proper name was the Mark VII Attack Teacher and it was housed in a 3 story building in New London, CT. […]
Category: Simulated Places
Movie sets, trainers, simulators, fake cities, etc.
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 […]
Forced Perspective at Disneyland’s Main Street: How Does It Work?
Forced perspective is one of those common photographic illusions. Let’s say you go to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and position your […]
Disneyland Main Street: Fake, Well-Done, Increasingly Insignificant
One of the most prominent, yet ignored, features of Disneyland is its Main Street. Even though thousands of people walk through Main […]
Disneyland Matterhorn: Is There a Secret Basketball Court Inside?
Legend has it that there is a secret basketball court located inside that most famous fake mountain located in the Los Angeles […]
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 […]
See the Fake White House in Suburban Maryland: James J. Rowley Training Center
In an April 5, 1982 TIME magazine article, it was mentioned that a fake White House and Blair House (the little auxiliary […]
Building the Matterhorn – Disneyland June 14, 1959
Let’s say right off the bat that it’s not the “Matterhorn.” Official term for it was “Matterhorn Bobsleds, because the included roller […]
Fake Iraq
Fake Iraq, by Maria Schriber.