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1950’s San Francisco is Kodachrome-tastic
Everything looks better in Kodachrome, including my city, San Francisco. Here’s a very extensive gallery of photos of San Francisco looking the way I wished it still did today. Men in fedoras walk down a clean(!) Market Street. Quaint little China Town is shockingly free of crowds. I think I’m going to waste a lot [...]
The 50’s Fabulous “Little Boxes” of Daly City, CA
I live in on the far SW side of San Francisco, which is practically Daly City. Most people think Daly City is decidedly uncool, but I beg to differ. On my occasional trips to Trader Joe’s I’m always finding myself wondering what people hate so much about Daly City. It has far more awesome retro houses than [...]
Birth of the Cool at Oakland Museum of California
Now through August 17th you can check out an exhibit called Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury at the Oakland Museum of California. It features just about everything cool about the 1950’s, from jazz to animation to architecture. The exhibit focuses on postwar southern California, and has pictures by architectural photographer [...]
Living the dream of a 1950’s child: spaceship homes
At some point in your life you thought it’d be awesome to live in a spaceship. Some people are living the dream.
This is a spaceship home located in Pensacola Beach, Fl. You might be able to rent it, although the link to do so is broken.
If you’ve seen Woody Allen’s Sleeper, you’ll recognize this Denver [...]
The Seattle Space Needle: a retro future delight
I can think of no city symbol more awesome than the Seattle Space Needle. It’s not the tallest structure. It doesn’t even really do anything. Except be awesome. You can just picture a bunch of grown men in a meeting gleefully shouting,
“Yeah, yeah, it’s gonna look like a huge flying saucer!”
“And it’ll spin around!”
“Can we [...]
