Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Wigwam Drive By, Rialto, CA, 1957

Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Wigwam Drive By, Rialto, CA, 1957

Cement tepee-shaped motel rooms seen from a rolled-down driver’s side window glisten in the rain-soaked sky blue blacktop. This is not any ol’ motel. Oh…

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Charles Phoenix's Slide of the Week: 3 Min. to Hollywood, LA, CA 1948

Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: 3 Min. to Hollywood, LA, CA 1948

Snapdragons snuggled up to a knee-high, white-washed picket fence border the front yard of a rural Los Angeles motel. Apparently, Little Miss Redhead, is quite…

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Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: BOB BAKER'S HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! OCT 29 & 30

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 Fri Oct…

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Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Breakfast Cheer and Pancakes, Los Angeles, CA, 1958

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. The cook, impeccably suited for the matter…

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Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Totem Pole Park & Aquarium, Somewhere, USA, 1956

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…

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