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

1. This Time Capsule Home for Sale Going for $624,900 in Massachusetts, found on Estately.   2. 109 East Palace When you need to be dropped off at a top-secret research facility that does not exist, what address do you give the driver? For two decades, that address was 109 East Palace in Santa Fe,…

Chicago’s Forgotten Magazine of the Jazz Age

Who knew the New Yorker had a copycat over in Chicago during the 1920s & 30s? Trying to glaze over the reputation the city once had as a hotbed for organised crime and mob violence, The Chicagoan painted a new image for the town with colorful animated monthly magazine covers, portraying the mid-western metropolis as a place of glamour and stylish…

A 1920s Road Trip through Death Valley

Exactly 92 years ago, a group of young friends took a road trip to Death Valley in 1926. The photo album, with detailed captions, a written record in the form of diary entries, ended up in the California archives for me to find all these years later. The identity of the diarist and the photographer are unknown.…

The Disappearing Romance of Russia’s Window Art

Man oh man, do I need to get myself over to Russia. If like me, you lust after the architectural aesthetic of places like Cuba, the French quarters of New Orleans, India, Portugal, Barcelona, Venice; all that intricately carved, colorful old stuff that gets so much love on Pinterest and Instagram; then it’s probably time you discovered an…
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Vintage Pocket Guides to Syria & Beyond for the WW II American Soldier

As someone who writes a guide about the city of Paris and searches for off-beat travel, I can relate to the language of pocket guides. I guess you could say it’s kinda my thing. But what if I wasn’t writing for the leisurely wanderer? What if instead, I was writing for a young, newly-enlisted soldier headed off to war…

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

1. Havana, Cuba in 1900 Calle de Habana Teatro de Tacon, Habana Paseo del Prado Execution Wall in Cabanas, Havana, Cuba Avenue of Palms, Havana Color tinted photochromes I found on the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.   2. Antlers that Hunter S Thompson stole from Hemingway’s home are returned to the family A set…
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The Scrapbooks of a Real-Life Tarzan torn between Africa and Studio 54

Andy Warhol called him a modern Tarzan. “He jumps in and out of the snake pit he keeps at his home. He cuts himself and paints with the blood. He wears sandals and no socks in the middle of Winter. He lived in a parked car on 13th Street for six months. He moved when…

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cars For Sale

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me this Mercedes Benz. You don’t need to be a car geek to enjoy browsing through the auction lots of Monterey’s Historic Car Week, the largest automobile show in America, currently underway in California. Among the line-up of rare and iconic vintage rides this year, there are a few not-so-classic classics that really widened my eyes…

Meet the Oldest Elevator Operator in Los Angeles

Ruben Pardo operates one of the last manual elevators in Los Angeles and he’s been in his job that dates to the late 19th century for 40 years, nearly half his life. Six days a week, eleven hours each weekday, nine hours each Saturday, Pardo welcomes patrons to 5514 Wilshire Blvd in Downtown, never failing to brighten…

Inside a Miniature Miss Havisham Mansion

I haven’t owned a dollhouse since I was a kid so I really don’t know what I would do with this stuff, but I’ve nevertheless developed a strange addiction to browsing miniature shops on Etsy. There’s one shop in particular that stands out to me for all its eerie bohemian and romantic oddity. Lady Delaney,…
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