The Secret Lives of Fashion Mannequins
For a brief moment in the 1930s, one of the most famous celebrities of the…
Category Time travel
Let’s Entertain the Theory of the Tartarian Empire for a Moment
What do you mean you’ve never heard of the lost civilization of Great Tartaria? It’s…
Searching for the Last Dance with Old Berlin
Looking for the remnants of old Berlin is difficult. Not so much the churches, museums…
A Back to the Future Tour of Paris in the 1950s
Straight out of a Jetsons cartoon, get a load of this Citroen U55 Currus Cityrama…
The Hotel of Childhood Memories: An Old Italian Schoolhouse turned Charming B&B
Perhaps the last thing you want to do on holiday is “go back to school”,…
Classrooms without Walls: A Forgotten Age of Open-air Schools
This old black and white photograph pops out at me every now and again on the…
Time Travel to a 1930s Dance School in Paris
“Forget your troubles and dance” were the wonderful lyrics once sang by Bob Marley and…
The Time Machine Sweet Shop in Paris
You could stand in the endless line at Ladurée, queuing up with the other macaron zombies,…
Bohemian Grove: The Secret Society Summer Camp
I just spent the morning finding out everything I can on the Bohemian Grove. For two…
Forget Roadside America, Let’s Location Scout in “Weird France”
I’ve been yearning to get back across the pond for a good ol’ dose of…
Your Summer Photo Goals, as Demonstrated by the 1920s Morris Mermaids
It all started with this those three girls on a rock in 1922, putting my…
Summering with the Surrealists: Sea, Sex and Sun
Let us rewind to the sizzling summers of 1936 and ‘37 to holiday on the…