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Then & Now: The Rolling Stones’ French Villa of Debauchery

In the Spring of 1971, Keith Richards began renting a villa on the Côte d’Azur for $2,500 a month. The British government was threatening to confiscate the bands’ funds if they did not leave the country by April 5th of that year as part of the Labour government’s punitive 93% tax on high earners. The Rolling…

An Illustrated Guide to the Human Race circa. 1960s

The internet is a little bit like a maze of doors, some that lead to a spiralling descent of procrastination and some, though not many, can lead to forgotten treasure. Today I picked the winning door and found one of the most impressive online collections of vintage ephemera I’ve ever had the pleasure of stumbling across. Pages and…

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

1. 500 years of walking up the marble stairs of The Leaning Tower of Pisa. Found on Reddit 2. Inside the Penn Station Lost & Found Tucked away in the labyrinth of Penn Station is a window you won’t notice until you need it. Behind it there are tequila bottles, laptops, electric guitars,…

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

1. Baghdad, Iraq, 1965 Not the South of France. Here’s a current photo of the bridge in the background… Found on Reddit. 2. The Isolator The Isolator is a bizarre helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision…

That time the Paris Metro was Segregated by a Class System

Today I pulled up an old New York Times article reporting the news that Paris’ subway system had eliminated its First and Second class carriage system. But the newspaper article wasn’t from 1950-something, it was from 1991. Image (c) Flickr, Alexandre C Forgive me, but for someone living in a country whose national motto is “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”, and…

For Sale: Burt Reynolds’ Rolodex and other Awkward Stuff He’s Selling

So here’s a unique Christmas gift– Burt Reynolds’ Rolodex! You could own BR’s very own “little black book” from his home office, including the (possibly/ very likely out-of-date) contact information for his groovy celebrity friends, restaurants, and business contacts. It’s basically priceless (but last time I checked it has a current bid of $900). Burt Reynolds was…

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

1. The Highly Questionable Advertisements of Newport, 1970s-80s “Alive with pleasure!” adverts that were in magazines everywhere in the 70s and 80s, found on Vintage Everyday. 2. The Museum of Endangered Sounds Yep, a place on the internet where sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment are being preserved. Click…

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

1. The Secret Apartment in the Eiffel Tower Now I know I’m that last one you’d expect to be recommending a trip up the almighty tower of mass tourism, but even I didn’t know about this… Within a year of the completion of the Eiffel Tower, it was reported by writer Henri Girard that Gustav…

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

1. The Original Batmobile you never Knew Existed is up For Sale The 1956 Oldsmobile 88, the first car DC Comics ever licensed, now for sale in an upcoming Heritage Auction in Dallas…. Here’s the history: What is believed to be the world’s first car that became an officially licensed Batmobile was conceived and customized starting…

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

1. A Melting Wax House Artist Alex Chinneck, who created the sliding house, upside-down house, and the floating piazza in Covent Garden, has unveiled his latest creation – a two-storey house made almost entirely from wax. Using 8,000 wax brick, Chinneck built the house on Southwark Street in London, where it will gradually melt over…

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