The interior of The Chief Diner on Main Ave. in Durango, Colorado (makes a fine desktop background) and below, the exterior as it appeared in the 1950s…
And below, as the location appears today… a Subway.
“Try the new Chicken Cordon Bleu. It’s back because you love it.”
UPDATE: Chexydecimal reader Ron from Durango says the Subway is not where the Chief Diner was… it was across the street (they changed the even/odd numbers?), and the diner was demolished to make way for “Light Art of Durango,” a lighting store…
Not a bright idea.
Thanks, Ron! And thanks to Kim of Light Art of Durango!
That’s Michael Jackson’s tomb at the end of the “Ascension Corridor” in the Great Mausoleum’s Holly Terrace (below in pink) at Forest Lawn in restful Glendale, California.
Elizabeth Taylor was quite enamored with the place when she attended MJ’s funeral and talked of having her own earthly remains kept there as well.
A compliance auditor for L.A. County died in her cubicle on Friday, but wasn’t found until Saturday afternoon, when a security guard noticed her slumped over a desk. Accounting work is very taxing… check your stubs.
Rebecca Wells, 51, worked for the County’s Department of Internal Services. Her exact time of death is unclear, but detectives say that she may have been dead a day before her body was discovered in her cubicle. Pity the fool who gets that cube next!
The last time a co-worker saw her alive was Friday morning around 9:00 a.m., but no one reported seeing her “napping.”
Cause of death is unknown, and foul play is not suspected, but accounting is well-known for being deadly dull.
It’s the gorgeous nightspot, Kents, 1700 Pacific Avenue at Illinois in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as seen in 1939, and below as it appeared in 2006 as The Poseidon.
And below once again, as it doesn’t appear today. Razed in 2007.
That beautiful 950-seat theatre was the Marquis Theatre, opened in 1925 at 9038 Melrose Avenue just east of Doheny Drive in a Los Angeles town called Sherman, now known as West Hollywood.
The theatre was purchased by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1946 as their headquarters, and the 1948 Oscar ceremony was held there. “Hamlet” won Best Picture, Lawrence Olivier won Best Actor playing the Dane, and Jane Wyman won Best Actress for “Johnny Belinda” and divorced Ronald Reagan that same year.
The theatre was demolished in 1976 to build this office building and parking lot…
The two theatre seats below, in your Chexy’s personal collection, are all that remain of the Marquis Theater.
Vietnam-era gargoyle Henry Kissinger, 182, and his wife Nancy as seen at last night’s White House State Dinner for China’s President Jintao… and an Evil Queen chatchka from Disney’s “Snow White.”
Who’s the fairest of them all, and who was an aide to Nelson Rockefeller?
The delightful, air-conditioned Le Roy’s Drive-In of Springfield, Missouri with its robotic jukebox, at 1614 S. Glenstone circa 1950, and below as it is today…
Oprah Winfrey, as she appeared in a Scarlet O’Hara-inspired Victorian bustle dress at Sydney Opera House on Tuesday, and below, Scarlett Johannson, who has separated from her husband of two years, Ryan Reynolds.
Both have failed to conceal their giant globes, one down under, the other above.
