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“I know, right?” Phoenix continued, milking the moment. Even knowing the story, I chuckled along with everyone else at the seeming incongruity. To get the look the McDonald brothers wanted for their original San Bernardino stand, “they went,” Phoenix declared with brio, “to an architect in Fontana.” One slide was of an early McDonald’s with the twin arches piercing the building.
Other slides were straightforward shots of long-lived Southern California attractions, including Indio’s Shields Date Garden, Pomona’s LA County Fair, Montclair’s Bowlium and Anaheim’s Disneyland (perhaps you’ve heard of it?), all with stories from the host, delivered with flair. And he offered cheerful, witty commentary on the details in the shots: stunning two-tone cars parked in suburban driveways, a casual family portrait outdoors in which a boy is holding a rifle, a couple in their living room who have not one, not two, but three ashtrays within reach. In his show, he displayed castoff family slides from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, either rescued from thrift stores or donated to him.
When he opened the store’s door, he immediately realized: “This is better than the husky boys department at Sears.” Accepted after an audition for a production of “Oklahoma!” at a local theater, the Gallery, he was told he needed a western shirt and could get one across the street at the Leroy Boys Home thrift shop. and hails from Ontario, told the story of how he discovered thrift stores as a boy.
On the stage of the Curtis Theatre, Phoenix, who lives in L.A. I attended the second with a friend who wanted to see him and never had I’d seen Phoenix near and far over the years but was game to go again. Charles Phoenix, the photographic slide collector and entertainer, did his one-man show in Brea the past two Sundays.