By Frank Brusca: The SCA vintage image database has just grown by 1,000 images with the addition of the Peter Richards Roadside Collection. Collected over a lifetime, the Richards Collection complements the Jim Seelen Motel Images Collection. Feel free to dig in. But beware, you might just get lost in nostalgia trip.
By Douglas Towne: Casa Grande’s downtown park is a gas — neon gas, specifically. Its elements flicker to life at dusk, creating a buzz that lasts until 11 p.m. Whether an evocative name like Hotel Sacaton or a more pedestrian moniker like Goddard Shoes, the neon signs glow in the Arizona darkness as if drawn with a magical luminous pen.
By Kevin Patrick: There is a romance to ruins that mirrors the arc of life from inception to the apogee of achievement, and then the inevitable fade to decay. The apogee of achievement for this nature-reclaimed wreckage was once a Dells anchor attraction that drew more than a quarter of a million visitors in its peak year of 1972.