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A Look Inside the Strange and Haunted Aztec Hotel of Route 66
Sitting along Foothill Boulevard in Monrovia is what a first glance appears to be some sort of ancient temple, but upon further inspection, it’s actually a hotel, the Aztec Hotel. Last week Patrick and...
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Celebrating Movie Magic at the Academy Museum
Over the last few years Hollywood has been working hard in the former May Company building, overhauling it to turn it into the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Earlier this fall it finally opened,...
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The Sly Bar Tucked inside the Legendary Bradbury Building
To the uninitiated, the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles may not look like much, but step through its doors and you enter into one of the most fantastical buildings in LA. Standing at five...
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A Visit to Needles, Home to Spike and the Remains of a Grand Train Depot
Before Interstate 40 arrived through the southwest, there was Route 66, and before that the railroad. And if you traveled any of them to California, Needles was that first city to welcome you to the...
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Remnants of the Mojave Desert at Route 66’s Goffs Schoolhouse Museum
As mentioned in my Needles post, we were lucky enough to make it to another museum along Route 66 before the sun went down, the Goffs Schoolhouse Museum. While the building started out as a...
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A Look Inside the Fanciest CVS You’ve Ever Seen
Imagine you’re driving down the street and you see this… As the bold red letters spell out, this is indeed a CVS. There are thousands of them, or similar drug stores, across the country. But this one...
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The Incredible Automotive Museum built by a Cosmetics Empire
Sometimes I go somewhere and I am just so knocked on my feet I’m not even sure where to begin to share it with you. This is the case for the Nethercutt Museum and Collection. In fact, this place is so...
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The Mechanized Wonder of the Nethercutt Collection
Earlier I shared the impressive Nethercutt Museum. While the museum is amazing, and free, visitors have the option to extend their visit and tour the Nethercutt Collection, a paid ($10 at the time of...
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Touring the Hauntingly Beautiful Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood. The home to the stars – both living and dead. While Hollywood and the surrounding areas have multiple cemeteries where Hollywood’s elite have been laid to rest, none is perhaps more notable...
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The Canyon Country Store, where 60s Music Legends Shopped and Rocked
Separating the greater Los Angeles area from the San Fernando Valley are the Hollywood Hills, and running through them are various canyons, steep with homes built precariously into them. The most...
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Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the LA County Fair
Since moving to California in 2014, I had yet to make it to the Los Angeles County Fair. But I just knew I had to go this year, and the LA County Fair turned 100! Los Angeles County tried and failed...
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Greetings from San Francisco
…Well almost! We are headed there this weekend for a few days, and I thought it was the perfect excuse to share the San Francisco portion of my vintage postcard collection! The historic Cliff House...
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A Night at the Historic Hayes Mansion of San Jose
Patrick and I just returned from a little trip up to the Bay Area and what a whirlwind it was! I’m delighted to share many of the wonderful places we visited, and I’m going to start with the hotel we...
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More than a Prison: The Gardens, Native American Heritage and Birds of Alcatraz
Alcatraz. The Rock. The most formidable prison in the United States. From its early years as a fort, later turned prison, and then the location of the protest that sparked the 1970s Native American...
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Remnants of the Motel Inn, the World’s First Motel
Just off Highway 101 sits a tall sign reading “Motel Inn Restaurant & Lounge First Motel in the World” but pull over and you’ll be welcomed by a chain link fence and only one building and a lilting...
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Dishing Up Deli History at the Skirball Cultural Center
Being from the west coast and growing up in the 90s, the idea of the Jewish deli wasn’t a big thing around me. It wasn’t until I started watching and paying attention to television shows and films set...
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The Surreal Experience of Shopping for a New iMac at an Old Movie Palace
A couple weeks ago my beloved iMac started show signs of age. It could barely keep up with my photo editing, and I knew its days were numbered. So I set out to get a new one. Not too long ago Apple...
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Unlocking Houdini’s Secrets at the Muzeo
My dad was, and remains, a bizarrely interesting person, who decorates his home with not your typical items. A coffin lays in his living room, a mannequin dressed as Sherlock Holmes sits on a small...
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Revisiting the Warner Bros. Studio
This year is a big year for the movie industry with lots of anniversaries, including both Disney and Warner Bros. Studios turning 100. While Disney’s icons are of the less tangible, animated variety,...
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Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards Vol. 2
Ages ago I shared some of my vintage Valentines Day card collection, which, at the time, was very small. Today, the collection has grown and I’m happy to bring you another sampling and plan to continue...
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