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Big Pimping at Yale’s Pipe Smoking Contest, 1959

I dug this one out of the LIFE Archives today, simply labelled “pipe smoking contest”. Between the Ivy League pimp coats, tweed jackets and collegiate fonts in the background, I had some pretty good clues as to where this might have taken place. A quick Google later and I found myself on Yale’s alumni magazine, reading an article submitted…

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

1. Unsung Girl Groups of the 70s and 80s More big hair and lip gloss found on Dangerous Minds. 2. Tiny Mice Shops Appear in Sweden Inside a basement window in the neighborhood of Möllevången in Sweden, a tiny bakery and a “cheese and cracker” shop, just the right size for mice. Follow the…

Bowling with Mr. President beneath the White House

If you’ve ever seen The Big Lebowski, you’ll recognise this photograph of President Richard Nixon bowling, which infamously loomed over the Dudes tiki bar in the cult Coen brothers film. It is in fact a real photograph of Nixon and as I recently discovered, in 1969 the former President added his own secret one-lane bowling alley in…

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

1. These Cartoon Celebrity Mash-ups Find all of them by Rui Pinho on Behance. 2. A Selection of Modernist Gingerbread Houses Compiled by Present & Correct. 3. This Fashion Shoot A Gucci editorial special for Commone&Sense magazine shot by Fanny Latour-Lambert at the France Miniature theme park. 4. Old Town Hall, Bamberg, Germany Found on…

Here’s What to Buy a Nostalgic Old-World Traveller

They would rather blow their budget on a voyage aboard the Orient Express than take the low cost the airline. Travel heroes include Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway and Wes Anderson’s “Darjeeling” brothers. Preferred mode of transport: time machine. If this fits the personality of the person you’ve been struggling to find a gift for, you’ve come to…

Abandoned London Corner Store Revived with Squishy Cadburys and Fluffy Crisps

When I was a kid, I used to set up a make-believe grocery shop in my bedroom and have a whale of a time for hours on end, selling imaginary products to imaginary customers. Artist Lucy Sparrow has pretty much taken this childhood fantasy and made it real (and I’m pretty damn jealous). Meet Lucy,…

Welcome to Liberace’s Secret Parisian Palace of Kitsch

In 1972, Marie-Helene de Rothschild threw a surrealist dinner party at the family’s mansion in the suburbs of Paris. Dali was there of course, and Audrey Hepburn showed up with her head trapped inside a Magritte birdcage. It’s a night people still talk about more than 40 years later; up there with Studio 54’s legendary New Year parties…

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

1. Turn-of-the-Century American Postcards That Hint At Having Sex The series called “It’s Easy To Say, But Hard To Do,” is a double entendre reference to a man asking a woman to get married. “Ask, and you will get it,” a not too subtle hint – ask me to marry you and then we can…

The Hollywood Canteen where Movie Stars were at your Service

Hours away from being shipped off to Europe’s battlefields or back on US soil for a brief reprieve, there wasn’t a single American serviceman passing through Los Angeles in the 1940s that wouldn’t have lined around the block for an evening at the Hollywood Canteen. Set up in an abandoned nightclub near Sunset Boulevard, if you were wearing…

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

1. Women sit for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929 Found on Nat Geo Found 2. These Eggs The latest chef d’oeuvres by jeweler Ananov, one of the main exhibits he made for the “400 years of the House of Romanov” at the Historical Museum of Moscow in 2013. Ananov’s Easter egg caught the eye of…

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