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Pull up a Seat at this Teeny Tiny Tiki Bar

Among my favourite things are tiki bars and teeny tiny stuff. Put the two together and I’ll basically explode with happiness. Not to mention that now I know how to make miniature cocktail umbrellas, should the situation ever arise where I might need one (ya just cut the original-sized ones down). And finally, yes, that hamster…

Muscle Beach Girl, 1954

She was dubbed the “strongest seventh grader” in the world. In the mid-1950s, April Atkins was a regular at California’s muscle beach and routinely blew spectators away with her unbelievable strength and generally kicking strongmen’s butts. If you’re looking for a little motivation to tone up for summer, these photographs I dug up in the LIFE…

For Sale! The Last Cinema Bus

Image via Jane Sanders Up in that impressive glass dome is where the projectionist would have originally sat in the late 1960s, when a fleet of seven of these custom mobile cinema units toured Britain, promoting modern production techniques to the industry. Britain’s then Minister of Technology, Tony Ben commissioned the customised Bedford SB buses to…

For Sale! A Rock n Roll Tour Wagon to Spruce up for an Epic Summer Road Trip

Looking for a DIY project you can really put your heart into? I’ve got just the thing for you! Now just hear me out. I know it might look a little rough around the edges, but this beautiful mint green baby has so much potential… You’re looking at a 1951 Tour Wagon that was customised by…

No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Film, 70 People Were.

Three years ago, I published an article about a photo story I’d found hiding away deep in the LIFE archives. I saw it spread like wildfire on the internet; jaw-dropping photographs of Tippi Hedren and her family living with full-grown lions, including her daughter, a young Melanie Griffith who is the little girl pictured lying in bed with a…

For Sale! The Ghost Town that Nobody Wanted

Johnsonville, Connecticut may be completely void of (human) inhabitants at present and characterised by those particular houses where one might occasionally see the faint shadows of children in nightgowns watching you from the attic window, but hey– a few licks of paint and a good spring clean to wash those ghosts right out of your lair and you could…

The Secret Playboy Mansion Tunnels that led to the Hollywood Homes of Celebrity Casanovas

The editorial staff at Playboy.com recently revealed that they have discovered a bunch of dusty old blueprints, plans and photographs in an unfinished basement area of the Playboy Mansion, which unveil a network of underground tunnels that allegedly once linked Hefner’s notorious bachelor’s pad to the homes of “Mr. J. Nicholson,” “Mr. W. Beatty,” “Mr. K. Douglas” and “Mr.…

A Compendium of Teenage Bedrooms on Screen

I never thought teenage bedroom design would inspire me but then I found this amazing Tumblr dedicated entirely to just that. Hollywood set design at its most loveable. It’s also a handy tool for picking what to watch (or re-watch) on movie night. Enjoy this trip down memory lane! Valley Girl (1983) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)…

The Victorian Daredevil Dame who threw herself off the Niagara Falls in a Barrel

She was a fragile-looking 63 year-old widow, barely getting by as a school teacher at the turn of the century, but Annie Edson Taylor didn’t sit around feeling sorry for herself. This is the outlandish story of a woman who took a barrel ride down the Niagara Falls in 1901 and became the first daredevil to survive…

The House at the End of the Street

We need more of those oddball houses at the end of the street that neighbours complain about because it doesn’t look anything like the other houses. Graphic designer Matthias Jung is not an architect but he creates what he calls ‘architectural short poems’, surreal homes put together from photo material that he collects, building his own architectural misfits. Don’t you just…

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