Cardboard America

Taco Bell - July, 1990

West L.A. Music - September 1988

Maybe someday I will get to do that project. In the meantime...

Back in 2016 I purchased nearly 2000 photos taken by a window painting company called Wonder Window. The photos were from the Los Angeles area and were taken mainly between 1988-1992.

I never shared most of them because I was hoping to make a book/booklet project out of it. Then life happened.

Indiana State Fair, 1986

Col. John Anderson's Furniture Gallery - Lafayette

WAFX AM 1450

Here are some more of the Burkhart Indiana billboard photos from the '80s

That's really cool.

Snip, Snip
Save, Save
Indiana Bell Gold Pages Coupons

Salem Spirit - October 1985

Atlanta, Indiana Festival Sept. 24 & 25, 1983

Crown Royal at 801 N. Washington in Kokomo, Indiana in April 1986

A few years ago I bought more than a hundred photos taken by an Indiana billboard company called Burkhart. They took photos of their own work and other companies across the state in the '80s. Here are some of them...

Lightdog was one of the many casualties of the dotcom bubble bursting

Going through my collection of internet service provider discs from the 90s-2000s.

Here are four free CD-Rom games given away with General Mills products in 2000.

Hard Rock Cafe menu from New York, New York. I saved this from my visit to NY in March, 1994.

My wife chiming on the Bumbershoot post.

This was an amazing event for me (and my future wife). Guided By Voices, Cat Power, Low, Stephen Malkmus, Rufus Wainwright, Cake, Jurassic 5, Mos Def, David Cross, Ween, Erin McKeon.

Found my old Bumbershoot 2001 ticket stub from August 31-September 3. One week before the 2001 version of the end of the world.

I love it here. I am heartbroken and outraged.

I bought this postcard years ago and it's still one of my favorites.

It's a real photo postcard - date unknown - with a couple at the end of an all-night dance-a-thon/dance competition.

She's gone.

Always a sucker for a fellow Idahoan.

By the end of the '50s Holiday Inn spread throughout the U.S. and the world. Here are a few more of the early versions featuring "The Great Sign" showing Holiday Inn Hotel before they dropped the hotel branding.

1. Opelika, Alabama
2. St. Louis, Missouri
3. Wichita, Kansas

The first non-Memphis and franchised location was opened in Clarksdale, Mississippi by Albert Pick, Jr., son of hotel magnate Albert Pick.

It opened in 1954 and only remained a Holiday Inn for a few years before Pick, Jr. started his own motel chain and rebranded it as an Albert Pick motel.

The second, third and fourth locations were all in Memphis.

4022 U.S. Highway 51 North
980 South Third St.
2300 So. Bellevue Blvd. - U.S. 51 South

Holiday Inn postcard thread. Here's the very first location.

Holiday Inn Hotel Courts
On U.S. 70-79-64
At Memphis, TN
120 Rooms & Baths - 100% Air-Conditioned
Restaurant in Connection

This postcard was sent Dec. 6, 1952 - three months after it opened.

The Greenhouse
Like walking into eternal spring. Everything's growing, blooming...seductively fragrant. Overhead, gently flowing water shimmers across the glass roof, soothing and restful. Food served in this atmosphere just has to be good. It is.
Holiday Inn South
Routes 90 & 97
Erie, Pennsylvania

Empire Room Restaurant
I-40 and State Highway 7
Russellville, Arkansas
Comfort, service, and convenience are always yours to enjoy at the Holiday Inn of Russellville.