The Short, Wild Run of Spyros Skouras’ Daughter, Dionysia
It ended at a spot on a sidewalk in Los Angeles. That spot is now next to a Burger King. It involves […]
Category: Things You’ve Never Heard Of
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. […]
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. […]
Nutri-Bio: Forgotten MLM Supplements Scheme
Long-forgotten supplements company that grossed $30 million per year.
When TV D.A. William Talman Got Busted For Narcotics and Lewd Vagrancy
1960 scandal involving TV actor William Talman and seven others at a West Hollywood apartment.
Charles McGraw’s Freakishly Sad and Incongruous Death
Charles McGraw (1914-1980) was the squarest jawed of all square-jawed Hollywood actors of the golden period, always playing a tough guy 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, […]
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 […]
Hong Kong Bank of China as Giant Protest Sign
As some of us sit around in the burgs and hamlets of the United States, knitting our fingers and wondering about the […]
Switchboard Receptionist School: Never Again
File this one in the annals of things that will never again exist: switchboard operator school. This ad from the June 1, […]