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Olvera Street is just across the street from the Los Angeles Union Station, so I stopped to take a few shots on the way to my destination.

One of my destinations for my recent LA trip was the Adrian exhibit at FIDM, which stands for Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

In the 1930s and 40s, my father was living in a small bungalow in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego, cramped with his Italian immigrant family.

Last weekend, a one-day trip to Los Angeles found me back on a train to avoid the stress of driving and traffic.

62 years ago today, “The Munsters” debuted on CBS Television.

David Butler first directed Shirley in 1934’s “Bright Eyes,” where she launched a taxiing airplane with “On The Good Ship Lollipop.”

It only took me about three months to finally get this post done, which is actually pretty good for me these days as I often feel like I’m at least a year behind.

Shirley Temple was the most popular movie star of the 1930s, but that didn’t keep 20th Century-Fox mogul Darryl Zanuck from worrying about retaining those audiences.

I normally don’t get too affected by celebrity deaths, but Dolly Parton was an exception.

I semi-regularly check back to the Village Theater in Coronado to see what’s playing; my positive experiences at this place have gotten me back to the theater after years of rarely going to the movies in person.

Who would have thought that a backwoods country singer could unite the world through her love, talent, and infectious joy?

Very quietly, it was revealed that Shirley Temple’s 1938 musical comedy, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” has been restored.

Change is inevitable, and no matter how much we resist it, it typically manages to beat us over the head at some point.

Shirley Temple had very few films that were made in Technicolor; the brief list includes a short sequence at the end of “The Little Colonel” (1935), “The Little Princess” (1939), “The Blue Bird” (1940), and “The Story of Seabiscuit” (1949).

If the house above looks familiar, then you’re probably an 80s filmgoer who liked one of the biggest box office blockbusters of all time, “Top Gun” (1986).

Today’s post takes us to a little midcentury gem in the Point Loma area of San Diego, The Pearl Hotel.

Thanks to the miracle of Adobe Lightroom, I have been able to go back to some of my earlier photos and reprocess them, bringing out more details and enhancing the lighting.

I always get a bit excited when I acquire a “new” image of the Disneyland Tomorrowland Space Couple; this July 1967 shot is no exception.

Last night I went to the semi-recently reopened Village Theater in Coronado.

Just when I thought I’d seen everything wacky in San Diego Dept.… Near San Diego State University exists a miniature Taco Bell, as seen above.

This image from an August 1960 slide shows the Old Point Loma Lighthouse in San Diego, with the Cabrillo monument on the background.

Recently on the French Lick Resort X/Twitter account, they posted some photos from the ice cream social/arch lighting ceremony at the West Baden Springs Hotel, which occurred thirty years ago on July 12, 1996.

Disneyland Opening Day is typically celebrated on July 17, 1955.

Back in 2018, I stayed at the Hotel Edison in New York City with Christy (aka Little Miss Sunshine).

We’re back at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to see more of the Marilyn Monroe exhibit that is currently being featured until February 28, 2027.

The 1939 Shirley Temple film “Susannah of the Mounties” was set in early 1880s Canada and loosely based on the 1936 Muriel Denison novel.

The unintentionally campy “Mommie Dearest” with Faye Dunaway began production January 1981.

The photographer who took these two images is my hero/heroine; they wrote the actual date on the back of the slides AND the camera setting!

In my quest to visit historic cemeteries, Oakwood Memorial Park was low on the totem pole.

Today is the grand finale of Christy’s (Little Miss Sunshine) 2026 California visit.

In the film “Pretty Woman” (1990), Julia Roberts’ character asks her friend Kit (Laura San Giacomo) where the best place in Los Angeles is for expensive clothes.

Part of 4 of Little Miss Sunshine (aka Christy) in California begins at the San Juan Capistrano Mission.

In honor of our 250th birthday, today’s post celebrates where it all happened: Independence Hall in Philadelphia.