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LAS VEGAS ’55; WILBUR CLARK MEETS…NOEL COWARD?

Here’s a recently ‘unearthed’ (according to the YouTuber who has kindly provided it) promotional film for Las Vegas made in 1955. It’s a remarkable document, not so much for what it includes as for it what it excludes. While extolling the many fun activities tourists can have when visiting the

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BURBANK CONFIDENTIAL’: CRUISING THE VALLEY IN LATE ’59

Here’s a few minutes of grooving black and white footage shot from the rear of a car in Burbank, California in the late 1950s. We are in James Ellroy’s Los Angeles, a dead-ass Valley strip near Warner Brothers filled with places called ‘The Tick Tock Lounge’, ‘The Kings Arms Steakhouse’

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NEW YORK 1956 (IN THE COMPANY OF BACH)

See that top video of New York City in 1956? See the video below it of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 2? Roll them both simultaneously (the NYC footage has no sound) and spend a few minutes of your Friday taking a poignant time travel trip to a New York

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PARK AVENUE, 1951

The YouTube artist known as NASS has once again worked his/her/they’s magic on some rare footage of New York City. This time we are on Park Avenue in 1951 (the newest car seen on the street is a ’51 Oldsmobile, which is how the date was arrived at). By slowing

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