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 […]
Before Borderline Bar & Grill Was Charley Brown’s Restaurant, Thousand Oaks
The Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, site of the November 7, 2018 shooting of 12 people, has been around […]
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 […]
Capping San Francisco’s Panhandle Freeway: a Plan That Never Happened
The plan made a lot of sense. If you were going to have a freeway running right through San Francisco’s Panhandle, which […]
Birth, Life, and Death of the Niles Backyard Monorail
Backyard dreamers are those true visionaries who build their dreams at great expense and for only personal reward. They are seized by […]
Pink Floyd in 1889
Fans of Pink Floyd know the origin story by heart. Band member Syd Barrett combined the names of two blues musicians Pink […]
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 […]
Bars, Nightclubs, and Casinos from Ocean’s 11 (1960)
How bad can a movie be yet look fantastic? Ocean’s 11 (1960) is a heist film famous for its slick Rat Pack, […]
The Man Who Built Disney’s Fantasyland in His Basement
Talk about humble and unassuming. A man builds a painstaking recreation of some elements of Disneyland’s Fantasyland in his basement, uploads a […]