Call up the go-go girl...

...and request a dance. Can you imagine? Part 1 and Part 2.

Whisky a Go-Go

A little peek inside the Whisky a Go-Go in Hollywood circa 1965.

Sunday morning dose of Rudolph

Independent. Whoooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

still hooked on looking at...

...old footage of cars. Here's the Sunset Strip circa 1958.

beautiful old cars

I'll take a 1959 Oldsmobile convertible please. And the beach house.

beautiful color footage of Los Angeles...

...during the holidays from 1946. Here's Part One and Part Two.

Cruise Sunset Strip...

...from 1964 and check out the groovy cars. Vrooooooooooooom!

Saturday morning dose of Soul Train...

...from its early days with Get Down by Curtis Mayfield. Get down!

Sunday morning dose of the tropics...

...with Johnny Nash singing Hold Me Tight from 1968.

Saturday night dose of authentic...

...mid 1950s Mambo music by Perez Prado doing Mambo #8.

Sunday morning dose of The Beach Boys...

singing Wendy on an unusually snowy day in October.

drive-in theater refreshment movies

so scary and bizarre... I love them! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Sunday morning dose of color...

...with the incomparable Otis Redding on The Beat from 1966.

crazy man, crazy!

Groovin' on The Munsters with The Standells covering The Beatles.

Sweet Soul Music

Arthur Conley singing Sweet Soul Music from 1967. Nice, clear footage of the band groovin' and folks in the audience diggin' it.

Allen House in Boston

Some summer shots of The Allen House on Washington Street.

Friday morning dose of kitsch

There's a ghoul in the school! Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!

shake ya money maker

I present James Brown and Bobby Byrd singing Sex Machine.

Friday morning dose of go-go-ness...

...with more American International stuff. Groooooooooooooovy.

American International Pictures

AIP started in 1955, cranking out a ton of double-feature, B-movies aimed at teenagers with lots of music, fast cars and swinging.

Here's Michael Landon in I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Rrrrrr!

Here's the trailer from Riot on Sunset Strip, circa 1967

Candy Johnson during closing credits from 1963

Here's the trailer for Muscle Beach Party for a kooky slice of 1964.

Check out James Brown singing I Got You in 1965's Ski Party.

Here's the trailer for Beach Party from 1963. Get out your bongos.

 Dr. Goldfoot and his Bikini Machine was cinema at its best.

Monday morning pick-me-up...

...with go-go dancing from an episode of Burke's Law circa 1964.

Friday morning dose of Oompa Loompas

I was singing this song this morning and just had to hear it.

traveling go-go party!

Summer isn't over yet. Head to the beach in your shimmymobile.

Simmons Hall at MIT

The weeHouse post inspired me to finally take a bike ride to see this building in person. There are some beautiful old and new dorms in Boston and this one is incredible!

prefab ain't what it used to be...

Thank God. Check out these cool weeHouses. I want one! Yehaaw!

Friday morning dose of go-go-ness...

...from the Whisky a Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

put on yer bikini...

head to Surf City and shake it! Whooooooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

Friday morning dose of the yeh-yehs...

...with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. Yeh yeh

Monday dose of get-up-and-go-go...

with Chuck Berry from French 1958 tv. Here's Roll Over Beethoven.