If you have spent any time in the United States around Thanksgiving, you probably stumbled across the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade at some point. Dating to 1924, the parade first featured balloons in 1927, when a larger-than-life Felix the Cat produced… Read More ›
History (Haunted and Otherwise)
Notice! All Ghosts and Restless Spirits: Early Footage from Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion
Darlings, on this dreary Monday morning almost exactly between autumn and winter, why don’t we take a trip back in time to summer in the late 1960’s and peek at the newly instated grandeur of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion? Inspired in… Read More ›
And the Soldiers Marched Down to the Sea: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Nestled on a strip of land high above the ocean lies Fort Rosecrans, a military internment site serving as the final resting place for 100,000 soldiers, staring calmly out to the ocean and stalwartly guarding the bay. While I tend to… Read More ›