Good afternoon, visitor! As you may have noticed the sidebar of our blog now includes an Amazon feature that allows you to purchase books and DVDs through The Gatehouse. For Thanksgiving we even opened a small store especially for holiday gifts! These include CDs, some of the finest Golden Era films and the Batman and ...

Here is dieselpunk architecture at its best in a drawing by Yanick Dusseault who, incidentally, also provided the cover artwork for the seventh issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.

Frank Sinatra recorded In the Wee Small Hours in 1955 with arrangements by Nelson Riddle. Unlike previous albums, all songs were specifically selected for this one, using only ballads that somehow related to late-night isolation and aching lost love—quite probably inspired by Sinatra’s separation from Ava Gardner after four years of marriage....

“This Grumman jet fighter is invisible. She is electrons. Yet day after day, she makes supersonic flights through an electronic sky,” according to this 1954 advertisement of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation....