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Nobody, including the cop, seems to notice that Aron, Becky and Michelle have taken possession of one of the lions outside the Art...

This is the Ahwahnee: one of those magnificent old hotels built inside National Parks. This one is on the valley floor of Yosemite. I...

Where else but Los Angeles would you find a soft-drink bottling plant designed to look like an Art Deco ocean liner? This was one of the...

The late '70s-early '80s were a golden age for murals in Los Angeles. One of my favorites was "The Fall of Icarus," visible from the...

Does this scene look at all familiar? If you're a fan of Alfred Hitchcock movies, it might--since the building on the left was the...

Not bad for a backyard swimming pool. This is San Simeon, aka Hearst Castle, the estate built in the California hills above the Pacific...

That's Double Arch at--where else?--Arches National Park, a stop on my way back from California to Wisconsin and then Cleveland. Note the...

The Strip in Las Vegas, summer of 1978: long before it was transformed by the theme-park casinos of the late '80s and the '90s. It looked...

In late December 1975 I got to California for the first time. Can a picture of Monterey cypresses stand in for the whole state? Maybe...