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These two photos were taken in Raleigh, NC just a few hundred feet apart, circa 1992. Yes, there really is a Booger Mountain Christmas tree farm.

Louisa County, Virginia, 2023

At last – honesty in a fund-raiser sign!

Don't you hate it when a television "documentary" includes photos or video completely out of place for the era or the location? Worse is when a documentary gets historical facts completely wrong.

Fox News Channel, December, 2016

Look carefully at this mid-1700s Boston dramatization. Samuel Adams and his friend just stepped into the street from a concrete sidewalk with a curb! And what's with that tree planted so carefully in its own space in the sidewalk?

Travel Channel, December, 2016

In a World War II documentary, the Travel Channel showed a soldier aiming a flintlock firearm! Does the Travel Channel think no one will notice this? Or notice that the mechanism is on the left side, and the soldier has the firearm against his left shoulder?

Percussion firarms superceded flintlocks by the late 19th century, so it's safe to say no flintlocks were used in WWII.

At least they got the helmet right.

Again! Travel Channel, September, 2017

The Travel Channel just can't seem to figure it out. Here's the same WWII soldier aiming the same flintlock firearm, only this time he's in color, and the photo isn't reversed. Wake up, Travel Channel!

Travel Channel, May, 2017

The narrator on this What History Forgot show wants us to believe that this is the nose of a WWII B24 bomber (hint – it's the tail).

Travel Channel, August, 2017

This Mysteries at the Museum episode detailed the development of cable TV. The inventor installed an antenna on a tall building, and ran a cable to his nearby house. This image portrays the inventor adjusting the antenna for best reception.

But the antenna is pointing straight up! There sure aren't any TV stations in that direction!

Fox News Channel, February 21, 2014

You'd think the producer or cameraman might notice the building in the background makes the man being interviewed resemble an Egyptian pharaoh.

Fox News Channel, May 13, 2016

Friday the 13th at work! This reporter's hair mimics the style and color of the ceiling trusses at Washington's Reagan National Airport.

Central Virginia, 2015.

Let's count the structures on this rural property. From the right: A mobile home (the family dwelling), a carport, a travel trailer, two more carports in front of a two-car garage, and finally, two more garages or storage sheds.

The elaborate Christmas decorations are a sight to behold at night.

But wait! Look what's behind the mobile home – a slightly different angle reveals a metal shed with an air conditioner and a large building (house?) with a chimney.

Rural humor, Central Virginia, 2010.

Ashland, Virginia, 2001

Two items on the same page in a mailorder catalog, 2001

Richmond, Virginia, 2000 – 2007

This is a real telephone, used like this daily in a real office.

How did the coiled handset cord become entangled with the flat wall cable?

Richmond, Virginia, 2007

Penalty? There's a penalty for theft?

Dulles Airport, Northern Virginia, 1971

Richmond, Virginia, 1994

This fellow must be in seventh heaven. He's got a monster boom box, a shopping cart to carry it, a radio antenna, and the mother of all power sources. Yes, that's an automobile battery on the bottom of the cart! Some people must really like their music.