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A Failed 1930s American Town, Lost in Time in the Amazon Rainforest

Typical American houses and mid-western streets sprang up as fast as the jungle could be stripped and cleared. Fordlândia– foreign outpost for one of the world’s largest and most profitable companies, dream of an American business magnate, and one of the worst ideas Henry Ford ever had. It was the motor industry giant’s epic jungle adventure, an experiment…

Not Your Grandma’s Cross Stitch

Say what you will about the internet, while we so often feel like it’s taking us away from the simple pleasures and quality time with our hobbies, only the internet could bring back a thing like cross stitch. And is there even anything more quaint and nostalgic out there than cross stitching? Not only is the internet spreading the…

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

1. When People Accidentally Found Their Doppelgängers In Museums Found on Bored Panda. 2. This Fantabulous Forgotten Boy Band The Fantabulous Jags ladies and gentlemen. Have a listen. 3. Matching Family Sleepwear of the Seventies Found on Grooveland. 4. Lights made from real French Bread A bread has some interesting charms. There’re potentials…

The 1950s All-Girl Hot Rod Gang

When we think of women in the 1950s, we tend to picture some kind of Stepford housewife or a glamorous Marilyn Monroe type. Rarely does a character like bad girl Betty Rizzo come to mind and you’d be hard pressed to find a female Hollywood equivalent of James Dean’s “Rebel without a Cause”. Today, I think I found the real…

Adopt an Abandoned French Chateau

So you know how I’m always telling you about these incredible chateaux left to ruin here in France? And then you ask, “why can’t someone save that place?” Well, I’ve come across something that can certainly help us try… Adopte un Château is a relatively new association dedicated entirely to saving endangered castles by working with…

The Best Pieces up for Auction from Audrey Hepburn’s Personal Collection

I‘ve always been drawn to the less clean-cut screen legends of the past, but there was no way I wasn’t going to have my eye on the Audrey Hepburn sale of the century. To own her Breakfast at Tiffany’s script, a pair of her ballet flats, or just a card from the studio telling her what time…

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

1. Mr & Mrs Karsy’s Giant Myriphon From the Byron collection but little more information is given on the photo other than “Musical act” penciled on the back. The unusual contraption depicted was probably the centrepiece of a musical act at Coney Island or at Union Square circa early 1900s. Found on the Museum of…

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

1. Art Deco Details of LA’s Union Station Photographed by Dean Cheng, found on Flickr. 2. The Anonymous Key Window on 13th between Chestnut & Market You approach, and there is little to no dialogue. He knows what you want. You want keys made. This is all that is available Smaller than a food…

Lost Cowboys of the Congo

We’ve met the dapper dandies of the Congo, but today let’s discover yet another subculture from the same corner of Africa, forgotten in the folds of time. In the 1950s, when the Congo still belonged to the Belgium colonialists and the capital of Kinshasa was known as Léopoldville, it was a difficult place to be a kid to say the…

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

1. This Sunken 200 year-old Swedish Cabin (for rent on Airbnb) In the early 1800s a man named Little Jon lived in this so called earth cabin (swe. ‘backstuga’) … In Sweden earthen cabins was common in the forests from the 1600s until the late 1800s and was inhabited by poor, old or sometimes criminal people… During the…

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