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Detroit’s horrible, beautiful decline has been so well documented by urban explorers that to the outside world, it might seem it’s the only thing to know about this once great industrial metropolis. And yet undeniably, it’s vast urban abandonment is intensely interesting. My latest guilty fascination is the Detroit’s renaissance revival theatre that has [...]
This is a photo of an “elevator garage” taken in Chicago, 1936 by John Gutmann. It was part of a building that no longer exists on 33 W. Monroe Street and held up to 48 cars. It took 55 seconds for a car parked at the highest point of the garage to reach its owner [...]
sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the
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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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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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You might have noticed that sneakers are back in style this year and designers are scrambling to do
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Image via Jane Sanders Up in that impressive glass dome is where the projectionist would have
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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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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A few months back, I came across a website called Paris 1914, a collection of color photography
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Ski season is upon us and naturally it’s all about the sport, and not at all about
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