This is Mrs. Polehugger “gettin’ her kicks,” just like the song suggests, “on route 66!” I have no idea what this woman’s real name is but I do know she holds onto poles wherever she goes. She is really hugging America’s Mother Road, as John Steinbeck called Route 66 in his 1940 novel the Grapes […]
So Tulsa’s legendary buried car emerges extra crispy and golden brown like it’s been battered and deep-fried like a piece of chicken. It’s shocking. People gasp. Some cry. How could this happen? How could the vault it was buried in have leaked? Why didn’t they do a better job? So many questions…so few answers. The […]
Oklahomans gawk at a beautiful brand new 1957 Plymouth. The car has just been lowered into the cement tomb and covered in plastic where it will rest undisturbed for fifty years. Visible is the white roof and the left front fender. 2007 must seemed like an eternity to these people because 2057 sure seems like […]
Aloha!
This slide isn’t about the lovely lady tourist about to get the center back seam ripped out of her dress, no. It’s all about those triple-wide panoramic windows on that short-lived island-hopping DC 3. Apparantly these view-friendly flyers didn’t last long in the Hawaiian Airlines fleet. They wern’t structurally sound and shook alot.
This week […]
The world’s largest neon mural made this the most spectacular drive in ever built in Southern California and the centerpiece of the valley it was named for.
With a beautiful blue sky, majestic mountain range and Santa Barbara Mission as a dramatic backdrop, a Native American, on the right, and a priest, on the left, […]
In last week’s slide the trailer was burning. So this week we go to church and pray. But not just any church! Oh no! We’re going where you honk to say amen!
A ‘55 Pontiac, ‘55 Ford, ‘56 Chrysler and ‘54 Chevy are parked for prayer. The preacher preaches from a shaded pulpit on a […]
A canned ham trailer goes out in a blaze of glory. It’s quite a show! Unfortunately there aren’t more people around to see it. The whipped cream colored 1954 Ford patrol car, just sits there. The red light on the roof is like a maraschino cherry on top of a delicious hot fudge sundae.
Speaking […]
In the background, telephone poles and electric lines service a fresh tract of modern ranch homes. Between them, on the other side of the green burm, a newly completed stretch of the Santa Ana Freeway makes a beeline from the Disneyland exit to the famous “stack” just forty or so miles northwest. Inside the burm […]
Streetlamps with dinosaur necks; speeding cars slowing on sharp curves and macaroni-and-cheese colored traffic signs that match the truck pulling a long, long trailer fashionably two-toned in battleship grey and lipstick red. This isn’t the real Autopia - oh-no! For that you would have to go to Tomorrowland in Disneyland.
This is the four-level interchange, […]
Whooshing by on the highway in the sky, passengers travel in supreme space-age style between the Disneyland Hotel and Tomorrowland. I certainly hope they all heard the “Please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times” recording because there are no windows!
The monorail is like an airplane without wings, or […]
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