Description
Raised on a used-car lot, Charles Phoenix used to be destined to change into the Ambassador of Americana. The photo collector, food crafter, and field tripper is famed for his hilarious live show performances and “theme park” tour of downtown Los Angeles. This riotously colorful book, replete with Charles’s number of vintage Kodachrome slides, celebrates his lifelong quest to unearth the most efficient of classic and kitschy American life and style.
Charles Phoenix is a showman, tour guide, food crafter, and writer known for his live comedy slide-show performances, madcap test-kitchen videos, field-commute-style adventure tours, and colorful books. The self-proclaimed “vintage culture vulture” has seemed on Martha Stewart, The Queen Latifah Show and Cake Wars, been profiled in The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and been a guest on NPR’s The Splendid Table.
Addicted To Americana Book.
A colorful kaleidoscope of popular culture from a bygone era!
Explore space-age style, amazing attractions, roadside wonders, festive foods, crazy car culture and plenty of more marvelous, mid-century Americana memories!
This fun-filled journey overflowing with vivid images revisits what you saw–or what you WISH you have to have seen–back in the day.
Hardcover. 176 pages.