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This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to finish this article without feeling an overwhelming urge to break out in your most ridiculously posh English accent. Two years ago, restaurant critic Simon Davis bought a 1966 Routemaster from a garage in Hemel Hempstead. The double-decker London icon [...]
It’s amazing how history can feel so much more real and alive when it’s in color rather than black and white. This footage of New York in 1939 comes from the Romano archives which has an extensive collection of unpublished historical footage from the 1930s and 40s in color available on their Youtube channel– worth [...]
The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go dancing, listen to some music and have a glass or two. In early 20th century Harlem, New York, these cards would have been your ticket to a good time. They advertise what was known as “Harlem rent parties”, a social phenomenon [...]
When we were kids, we seemed to have this incredible ability to watch the same films over and over, and over again, until someone messed with the magnetic tape of the VHS. For me, Singing in the Rain was one of those movies. In particular, my favorite scene was this montage of 1930s fashion which [...]
With the nights in Paris getting longer, the trees looking more naked and the cobblestones glistening with rainwater, I can’t help but be reminded of Brassai’s Paris de Nuit. The Transylvania-born photographer came to city of light in the 1920s to capture its notorious creatures of the night and what he found went on to [...]
This lovely young lady snapped in the 1930s is dressed to celebrate the beginning of harvest in the fertile Rio Grand Delta. Her amazing gown is made entirely from grapefruit peels and appeared in an issue of National Geographic. So what have we learned? A fruit dress might stink up your closet but at least [...]
La Danse Apache, a highly dramatic dance, was the ‘tango’ of Parisian street culture and was essentially made to look like a physical attack. The dance is said to re-enact a violent “discussion” between a pimp and a prostitute. Immortalized and sensationalized later by Hollywood and Broadway as shown in this film noir made in 1935, it includes [...]
“The big picture is that we are intimately bound to animals and it is satisfying to take them in and tame them. Subconsciously, we are a mishmash. We don’t know who we are, and so to simplify things, we predicate our individuality on animals.” Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan, a cultural geographer at the University of [...]
Let’s start with the New Yorkers, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt– most famous for that shot of the sailor kissing the girl in Times Square. The following photos are from a street style series for LIFE magazine in 1944 called ‘Beautiful Girls’… Round 1. NEW YORKERS! ::: Round 2. PARISIANS! Modern fashion photography [...]
If ever I had the choice of owning any two-wheeled mode of transport in the world, I’m pretty sure I would pick this one (if I could reach the handle bars). It’s a one-off custom art deco beauty originally built in 1936 by O. Ray Courtney, based on a 1930 KJ Henderson and is powered by [...]
This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to
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An impressive line-up of automobiles will be up for auction hosted by Bonhams next week on June 2
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Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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No, this isn’t the rescue mission of a shipwrecked Porsche 911, this is a picture of a 911
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More abandoned p0rn to tie you over this Monday afternoon, this time, Victorian and Art Deco
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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When I first stumbled across this picture, I assumed it was some clever photoshopping of a
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Yesterday I was offered a pass to the Retro Car Expo in Paris. I’d wanted to go to a retro
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I‘m one of those people who, in the event of being elected King and Queen of f**king
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It was voted one of the 50 worst cars of all time and deemed ‘unworkable’– but I
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It’s called the Vochol, a cross between the word ‘vocho’, slang in Mexico for
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The Citroën Karin was probably one of the most revolutionary concepts that came out of the 198os
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For those of you learning to drive, it might sting a little to know that dogs have beaten you to
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