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Cabinet of Chic Curiosities

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

1. Prostitution in Paris of Yore From the Eugene Atget collection and photographs by Ed Clark from the Life Archives. 2. Meet Yvette, 95, The Fierce Concierge Who Hasn’t Left Her Parisian Apartment in 6 Years View this post on Instagram A post shared by Documentary Weekly (@documentaryweekly) on Aug 3, 2020 at 9:00am PDT…

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

1. Grandparents model other people’s forgotten laundry Chang Wan-ji and Hsu Sho-er have become Instagram-famous for wearing outfits curated from the hundreds of items left behind by absent-minded customers at their laundromat in central Taiwan. ⁣Their 31-year-old grandson and unofficial stylist, Reef Chang, originally came up with the idea to create @wantshowasyoung on Instagram when business slowed…

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

1. This Restaurant in Nice, Then & Now Occupying an iconic location in Nice, hovering above the sea on the famous pillar of rock and the base of the diving boards themselves, the restaurant welcomes you in this most unusual setting, steeped in history. Le Plongeoir. 2. Nessie hunter looks like someone from another time…

He Found an Entire House in his Attic

I’m not scared, you’re scared! We were casually scrolling through Reddit the other day when we stumbled upon the most interesting if not creepiest thing we’ve ever seen posted on the platform… A Redditor who goes by the username “Mr Griff” shared photographs over the weekend of a recent excursion up to his attic where…

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

1. Guy finds a box of 100-year-old Nudes in his wall “…searched the house more thoroughly and found a trove of century-old erotic photographs, about 120 in all. We’ve identified two studios involved in the making of these photos: The Aurora Studios in Boston, MA and Alta Studios in San Francisco, CA. One of the…

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

1. An Entire Old West Town for Sale in New Zealand A detailed replica of an 1860s Wyoming frontier town, set in the heart of a 900-acre ranch has gone up for sale with an asking price of $7.5 million. Found on Bloomberg. 2. French Revolutionary Frescoes Discovered behind the Walls of a Paris Apartment…

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

1. Academy Theater, Inglewood California, 1940 Still standing, screened movies from 1933 until it became a church in 1975. It got it’s name “The Academy Theater” because it was originally built to be the home and venue for the Academy Awards (the Oscars). But the plans changed. Photographed by Julius Shulman, found here. 2. ‘Sciopticon’…

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

1. A 5 Dollar Jackson Pollock? Teri Horton bought a secondhand painting for $5 and learned that it could be an original Jackson Pollock. She spent years trying to prove it’s authenticity, and was offered $9 million, but refused to sell for any less than $50 million. She had a forensic scientist look at it…

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

1. The Supremes in Paris, 1965 Found here. 2. The Fisk University Jubilee Singers The university’s A capella group, was established in 1871 – to generate further income for the institution. The original group toured along the Underground Railroad path in the United States, became world renowned, especially favoured by Queen Victoria who commissioned a painting in…

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

Today’s edition was compiled with our hearts & minds vicariously marching with the Black Lives Matter Movement. 1. Fabulous in New York City, Summer of ’69 Vernon Merritt III/Time Life Pictures, found on Pinterest. 2. Where the term “Dreadlocks” came from The term “dreadlocks” comes from a movement of guerrilla warriors who vowed not to…

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