“In photography, “golden hour” refers to the first hour after sunrise and the last hour before sunset, when the sun is low on the horizon, producing a warm, soft light ideal for capturing stunning images.” Google AI I bought my house 28 years ago. It’s surprising that it’s taken me almost three decades to realize my […]
My March 7 blog featured a model of one of the staged new car publicity shots that were so popular in the 1950s and 1960s complete with one of the ubiquitous Foster and Kleiser billboards. Although the billboards are clearly ads, there was some hard-to-define “something” that made them captivating. I decided to revisit the […]
A nondescript boxcar sits silently under a palm tree near the Everett Avenue crossing in Los Angeles in the Don Draper/Mad Men era. When I go out in the field to rail fan, I know going in that the odds are against actually catching a train. I’m fine with that and simply enjoy taking in […]
In an era of unfiltered cigarettes and leaded gas, the LAJ switch job pulls eastward across District Blvd back to A Yard after a hard day’s work.
It’s the summer of 1962 in LA as a motorist idles patiently at the Corona Avenue grade crossing. The vehicle is a 1958 Impala Sport Coupe powered by a 348-cubic-inch, Tri-Power engine with a Powerglide transmission and dual exhaust. Mileage? 9 mpg! That year the Rams drafted Roman Gabriel and Merlin Olsen. Chubby Checker hit […]