Welcome to Wonderland.  That's the code name for the fake houses and landscapes built to hide California's airplane factories circa 1942.  Japanese bombers were expected at any moment. This anticipation was the theme of Steven Spielberg's 1979 movie titled 1941. The film, starring John Belushi, was too slapstick to convey California's utter panic.  People truly believed they saw Zeroes swooping in from every direction. That panic explains the intensity of the faking-it offensive.  Thousands of the best engineers, architects, artists, carpenters, set-designers, and magicians responded with grim ingenuity.  They invented, constructed, and improvised at a fierce pace.  Entire neighborhoods were created on burlap strung above the factories.  Trees.  Streets.  Cars.  People.  Telephone poles.  Empty...(Read Full Article)