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Kid Brothers were too Poor to buy Card Games so instead, they Made their Own

For those of us that grew up with the means to buy the commercial card games, do you know where they ended up? I know most of my mediocre board games and card collections gathered dust in the parents’ basement for years before they finally inevitably ended up in the trash. But for two brothers who couldn’t…

California Dreaming on the Last Hippie Houseboats

Hippies and houseboats; they seem to go together almost like wine and cheese. At least, they used to, especially in California in the 1960s when a mix of old beatniks and young hippies formed a community of whimsical water homes in the Bay Area… I found this photostory lurking in the depths of the LIFE archives, titled “Floating-Houses-California”…

Style Comeback du Jour: Tattooed Jeans

That’s it. I’m starting a girl gang where we all go around together in our Levis 501’s with embroidered tattoos on our butts and hips. The inspiration behind this new aforementioned direction I’m taking in life? The creator of “Good for Nothing Embroidery”, Marie Sophie Lockhart. Of course she’s Parisian, but she’s now based in Brooklyn, taking…

Made in America: A Bavarian Clone Town

Leavenworth was once on the verge of becoming a ghost town until it became an American “little Bavaria”. Before economic ruin took hold of it in the early twentieth century, the town was an important logging hub in Washington and served as headquarters to the Great North Railroad. Despite its rich history of pioneer settlers…

A Groovy Fashion Show in 1960s Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan was once known as the Paris of Central Asia. During the late 1960s, goat-skin coats were Afghanistan’s biggest fashion export, gracing the pages of Vogue and copied by designers for the chicest hippies longing for adventure along the Silk Road. For a December 1969 Vogue issue, photographer Fred Maroon and a team of American stylists arrived in Kabul…

10 Reasons Why Archeology is the Coolest Job Ever

Indiana Jones may have exaggerated a little bit about the job, but you still get to dress like Alan Grant from Jurassic Park, travel all over the world and uncover some mind-blowing relics of the past. Here’s 10 reminders of why this is the coolest career going. 1. That time they discovered the Easter Island Statues have Bodies There…

Inside the Playboy Paradise, 1966

It’s Friday, you might be at your office, waiting for another colleague to call it a day so you don’t have to be the first, which makes it a totally appropriate time to look like your working while actually time-travelling to London during the swinging sixties and hitting up the Playboy Club. I found this video lurking…

Religion gets Totally Radical at the Church of Skate

I‘ve always envied people that can do their thing on a skateboard, I think it’s one of the raddest skills someone can have. And now, I have one more reason to long for the legs and balance that could roll around on those four little wheels– Kaos Temple. Originally built in 1912, the Spanish church…

For Sale: Legendary Pre-Ban Absinthe Bottles of the Belle Epoque

When Parisians used to call it “la fée verte” (the green fairy), the custom of drinking absinthe had became so popular in bars, bistros, cafés, and cabarets that, by the 1860s, the hour of 5 p.m. was called l’heure verte (“the green hour”). It was a green and ghoulish drink traditionally served by placing a sugar cube on a…

You’re Invited to a Secret Venetian Ball in the Underground Canals of Paris

It’s only going to be the party of the century, a once in a lifetime thing, no biggie. They’re the most unique underground party organisers in the world, who surfaced in the French capital in recent years throwing unprecedented soirées for Parisians looking to let loose somewhere a little more off the grid. You’ve heard what these…

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