Indulging in nostalgia: new Catalina Island Museum opening
Copyright Bunny Yeager/Galerie Schuster Top: Architect’s rendering of the new Catalina Island Museum façade. Above: Bettie Page on the Florida beach, 1954. Day trippers appreciate the southern California destination Catalina Island, easily accessible from Los Angeles. You take the ferry boat from Long Beach, cross the channel, and in about an hour, land in the […]
Destination datelines: Catalina, Paris, Gurgaon, Punta Ala
©1964 Bettmann/Corbis ©1966 Hulton–Deutsch/Corbis Top The Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night, 1964. Above George Harrison marries Pattie Boyd in 1966. Catalina Island, California Hard to believe it’s been a half-century since the première of A Hard Day’s Night. To commemorate the date, the Catalina Island Museum will mount a special 50th anniversary screening of […]
Catalina Island: a brief update
Stanley Moss The Airport in the Sky on Catalina Island got a facelift in the last month, with a smart retro font treatment and a shiny new coat of paint. It’s a lovely and warm welcome to visitors who arrive by air. We photographed the airport yesterday as an unusual and otherworldly fog drifted in, […]
