We Have Reservations

The latest additions to to the TSG Hotel/Motel postcard collection. Namesake-wise, our favorite here wasn't actually a hotel or motel, but a fine(?) dining establishment. Also of interest is the card sent from the Casa Munras Garden Inn to SF television station KRON in 1967.

Fourth Of July Fairgasm

"I live in America. Right here, dig my mess."  

-- James Brown

 

This quote could be applied equally to this somewhat slapdash video as well as to other things. But we won't get into that...

 

 (Editors note: readers may have adjust their youtube player setting 
to "1080p/HD" for the best viewing experience.)

Operation! Wētā-Style

Visitors on the Wētā* Workshop Unleashed! tour try their hand at alien organ removal.

*Wētā (aka Wētā FX) is a New Zealand-based 

special effects house founded in the 1980s.

 Their work has been featured in Peter Jackson' films

going back to the The Frighteners  

(starring Michael J. Fox and R. Lee Ermy)