DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Wagon Wheel Lodge
Walt Williamson started building his rustic, roadside wonder in 1936 using utility poles and old bridge beams.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: San Fernando Valley at Midcentury
Non-California’s introduction to the Los Angeles Basin’s San Fernando Valley came with the 1968 inauguration of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In broadcast from “beautiful downtown Burbank” at the Color City television studio opened there in 1952.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Midcentury Modern Tucson, Arizona in “A Kiss Before Dying”
Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward run around in the 1956 thriller, “A Kiss Before Dying,” but the real star is midcentury Modern Tucson, Arizona, presented in supersaturated technicolor and Cinemascope.