American Graffiti and Mel’s Drive-In Restaurant
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American Graffiti and Mel’s Drive-In Restaurant

Sep 19th 2012 by Christopher

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Film Inspired by similar restaurants serving motorists in Los Angeles, Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs founded Mel’s Drive-In restaurants in 1947 in San Francisco, California. Night and day, hordes of patrons that fancied dining-in-your-car came early and often. It didn’t take long for the first restaurant to multiply into eleven. In 1972, the original Mel’s located at 140 South Van Ness in San Francisco was selected as a feature location by filmmaker George Lucas for his 1973 coming of age film American Graffiti. When filming began, the restaurant had been closed for several years and was slated for demolition, perhaps the consequence of Mel’s then newly introduced concept of “serve your self“. George managed to lease ( continue reading... )

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The Cocktail Nation - Queens Of Vintage

Episode 266    May 12th 2013

This week we talk to the publisher of an online magazine called Queens Of Vintage, her name is Lena Weber and recently she interviewed me in her kings of vintage portion of the website so I thought we should have her on to talk vintage culture and the English scene. Plus the best exotica and lounge music from across the globe.

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Mant! – Half Man – Half Ant
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Mant! – Half Man – Half Ant

Aug 31st 2012 by James Vaughan

Film In 1993, director Joe Dante, made a little known film that has since become a cult classic for lovers of  ‘B grade’ 1950′s science fiction. Matinee, starring John Goodman, is a feel good comedy about a Hollywood huckster who premieres his gimmicky new monster movie in the town of Key West Florida while the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is coincidentally occurring. Events are particularly important to the main characters in Matinee as Cuba is a scant 94 miles from Key West. The movie has that over-all cute feeling that was so common in post “E.T.’ Hollywood. Despite it’s sugary feel, ( continue reading... )

Stanley Donen’s Arabesque

Apr 27th 2012 by James Vaughan

Stanley Donen’s Arabesque
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Film arabesque def: 1. a sinuous, spiraling, undulating, or serpentine line or linear motif. Nobody liked the screenplay. After three writers tried to make it better, it was worse! But director Stanley Donen knew, that if the audience would be staring at Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren the whole time, maybe the story really wasn’t all that important. The romantic thriller ‘Arabesque’ was released in 1966.  ( read more... )

The Stylish Art of Kevin Dart

Dec 6th 2011 by Guest

The Stylish Art of Kevin Dart
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Design Stylish, bouncy, curvaceous, deadly – And she wants her panties back from old men who carry them in briefcases! “Yuki7 and the Gadget Girls” are the Mangaesque brainchildren of L.A. artist Kevin Dart. As books and animation Kevin and 14 other illustrators take you into a “fixties” style milieu of jazzy action and toned down colors to underscore a mood of light hearted murder and ( read more... )

Airport

Apr 12th 2011 by Jesse Kowalski

Airport
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Film The first of its kind, Airport set the standard for the disaster films of the 1970s. Films such as The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), and my favorite – Rollercoaster (1977) collected A-list, B-list, and C-list movie stars and put them into some pretty crummy situations. But their pain is our pleasure; the films grossed a ton of money – Airport made over ( read more... )

The Party – With Birdie Num Num

Apr 5th 2011 by Katharine Miller

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Film What happens when Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers and Henry Mancini collaborate on a motion picture? Usually, a Pink Panther movie. The exception was the 1968 comedy The Party, with Blake Edwards once again directing Peter Sellers and his antics to a swinging Mancini soundtrack. Edwards and Sellers team up to make a slapstick comedy for the mod set. The result is a smorgasbord of sight ( read more... )