Saturday, December 5, 2009

Your witness: Los Angeles' Perry Mason court building

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L.A.'s Hall of Justice, where Perry could always get a parking space on the street right in front. Raymond Burr in the role he was born ...
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Friday, December 4, 2009

Manly at-tire: Magnolia, New Jersey's Tire Store Muffler Man

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Muffler Men and New Jersey go together like Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. A nice diversion off the New Jersey Turnpike in the sou...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Staying the corset: New Haven, Connecticut's former Smoothie Foundation Garment factory

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I love how the women in these ads look so nonchalant about wearing girdles around the house. Ouch! Today, a smoothie is a delicious frothy c...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Happy birthday, Leith

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My brother always saw to it that I was well-fed. Someone driving by asked if we were lost when I got out to take this picture in Leith, Nort...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Central Standard Time: Odell, Illinois' antique gas station

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A spectacular example of well-preserved Route 66 petrolium-abilia resides in the pleasant little town of Odell, Illinois. A 1932 Standard ga...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Rover in a Rover in Thomson, Georgia

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Little dogs rule.
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Semi-conscious: Trucks seen along the way

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Is she supposed to be drinking home heating oil? Probably the weirdest truck advertisement I've ever seen. Objet DART Mmmm...Kozy Shack...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Get a load of this: North Platte, Nebraska's Norge Ball

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They've got an awesome water tower in North Platte, too... ...and the grains don't come more amberer or wavier than in Nebraska. W...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Marxism in Moundsville: West Virginia's Marx Toy Museum

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If you grew up in the fifties and sixties, you probably played with or watched TV commercials advertising Marx toys. They specialized in pla...
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