Cement tepee-shaped motel rooms seen from a rolled-down driver’s side window glisten in the rain-soaked sky blue blacktop. [Open article]
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Snapdragons snuggled up to a knee-high, white-washed picket fence border the front yard of a rural Los Angeles motel.
Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: BOB BAKER’S HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! OCT 29 & 30
HEADS UP
Charles Phoenix Presents Halloween @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater Thu Oct 29
Charles Phoenix Presents Halloween @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater [Open article] Fri Oct 30
Celebrate Halloween at LA’s legendary Bob Baker Marionette Theater, now in its 50th year.
Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Breakfast Cheer and Pancakes, Los Angeles, CA, 1958
Twelve pancakes, about to be flipped, have just been remarkably well poured in a grid on a griddle. [Open article]
Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Totem Pole Park & Aquarium, Somewhere, USA, 1956
A giant drive-thru redwood tree trunk provides a perfect perch for a billboard of one of the most bizarre roadside tourist traps I’ve ever discovered in a slide. [Open article]
Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Witch of Fruit, LA County Fair, Pomona, CA, 1960
Twin stacks of oranges give scale to this frightening fruit display leaning diagonally against an exhibit hall wall. [Open article]
Someone’s pride and joy sits proudly posed curbside before a big rock pile, trio of ’49 Dodge sedans, ’39 Ford Coupe and ’20-something model A Ford. [Open article]
The optimistic, billboard scale signage marking a prescription drug counter is an unexpected backdrop of a wig bar in a big box discount retail store. [Open article]



















