Here’s a twenty or so minute travelogue made in the mid 1950s showing off the Southern California ‘lifestyle’ before that last word was invented. It’s in color, has nice shots of the usual spots and is otherwise unremarkable, though a perfectly pleasant way to waste twenty or so minutes. If
Above is a lovely visit to Harlem in the early ’30s (very early, maybe even late ’29 given the fashions on the women specifically). We see a world of pride, fancy clothing, friendly neighborhood deameanor…and perhaps that’s all that British-Pathe, who shot this footage (which includes a very good floor
On Wednesday, April 18 1906, the San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 AM. Four days earlier, on Saturday April 14th, a man mounted a camera on the front of a trolley car on Market Street–a main artery of the city–and photographed the journey posted above.
I’m in New York City, my proper home when I’m not pretending to live in Los Angeles. And it’s impossible to wander around this incredible place without imagining whatever you’re looking at as it might have looked one hundred or more years ago. I find this phenomenon to be specific