For Dargo: You Can't Drive Home Again
Posted: October 10th, 2023, 10:48 am
Dargo, I recently visited the Hollywood Heritage Museum for the current Norma Shearer Exhibition. The awesome exhibit is housed in the old Jesse L. Lasky/Cecil B. DeMille barn/gym which was relocated from the Paramount Pictures lot to a parking lot across from the Hollywood Bowl in 1982:
I had a bit of time to proverbially kill, so I headed out to the Valley and took a brief turnaround on Riverside Drive where Barris Kustom City had inhabited for many years, since gone - the first sad sight of its demise for me...
A Batmobile work-in-progress as it once sat on the Barris lawn:
The iconic car in its first incarnation ten years earlier:
When I first encountered a photo of the Lincoln Futura concept that you once posted on the TCM Message Boards, Dargo, I didn't know of your designing aspirations so, in retrospect, I now can see how much that metallic mind-snapper might be viewed by you.
I had a bit of time to proverbially kill, so I headed out to the Valley and took a brief turnaround on Riverside Drive where Barris Kustom City had inhabited for many years, since gone - the first sad sight of its demise for me...
A Batmobile work-in-progress as it once sat on the Barris lawn:
The iconic car in its first incarnation ten years earlier:
When I first encountered a photo of the Lincoln Futura concept that you once posted on the TCM Message Boards, Dargo, I didn't know of your designing aspirations so, in retrospect, I now can see how much that metallic mind-snapper might be viewed by you.