13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXXXVIII)

1. The Top of the Town Club, Chicago 1951 Found on this Flickr pin-up archive. 2. Cowboy Car Hops as Sex Symbols In the 1940s, men dressed in short shorts and cowboy boots served up women at the Log Lodge Tavern in Dallas Why?… It was a response to the sudden rise of sexy carhops.…

New York, is that You?

American-born Berenice Abbott’s work was exhibited alongside that of Man Ray, André Kertész, and others in Paris. Man Ray introduced Abbott to Eugène Atget, a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to capture all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Abbot was very taken with the work of…

Abdul, the Servant who stole Queen Victoria’s Heart

The British monarchy has been known to be better than the KGB at covering up its scandals and destroying evidence. But where there are secrets, there are detectives lurking nearby (especially when it comes to the affairs of the royal family). Queen Victoria’s kids did their best to cover up her private life, especially the relationship…

Secret Summer Cabins in the Sky for the Great American Trip

Jack Kerouac spent 63 days during the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Washington’s Desolation Peak. It would be the writer’s last truth-seeking adventure before he found fame with On the Road and began his demise into alcoholism and mental instability. He had been assigned to record aircraft sightings, but used the Air Force forms to…

Tattooed Makeovers of 1950s Pin-Up Girls

I don’t think I’ll ever muster the courage to get a tattoo myself, but I certainly dig it as an art form, both on bodies and on paper. My latest discovery is a Mexico City-based tattooist, collector and artist, Dr. Lakra (translation: Doctor Delinquent). His real name is Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez and he’s an avid collector of…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXXXVII)

1. Why don’t our Gas Stations look like this Anymore? A motorist refueling his Renault car at a bucolic Shell filling station at Blashford, Hampshire, England, 1930 More found on “The Amazing Architectural Evolution of the Filling Station” via Gizmodo. 2. Ziggy Stardust Jumpsuits Shop the jumpsuits here. 3. Cold beer and tons…

Obnoxious Antique Shopping

If you’re the kind of shopper that comes home from the flea market and gleefully calls out, “Honey! Come see what I bought”, only to be met with a look of horror on your partner’s face– then this post is for you my friend. They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right? I found Obnoxious Antiques…

Paris Launched a Contest to Re-Design its Derelict, Disused and Defunct Spaces

Three abandoned metro stations, two defunct underground nightclubs, a forgotten art nouveau shopping arcade, an old Renault garage, a disused water reservoir, and a post office– these are just a few of the 34 incredible hidden sites of Paris being presented as a creative canvas for potential designers, architects and urban planners as part of “Reinvent Paris 2”. The…

A Janitor’s View of La Sorbonne University

I imagine that the school janitor of La Sorbonne University doesn’t have it so bad. When school is out and all the students and teachers have left, imagine roaming these halls and polishing the blackboards in classrooms that taught Voltaire, Balzac, Jean Paul Sartre, Marie Curie and T.S Eliot. Parisian photographer Ludwig Favre is not the janitor, nor was…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXXXVI)

1. Elvis’ Last privately-owned Jet up for Auction after sitting for 30 years on a Roswell Runway A 1962 Lockheed Jetstar, this jet was personally designed and ordered by Elvis Presley. The interior was custom designed to Elvis’ specifications, down to the gold-tone, woodwork, inlay and red velvet seats and red shag carpet. This jet was…