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

1. Prostitution in Paris of Yore From the Eugene Atget collection and photographs by Ed Clark from the Life Archives. 2. Meet Yvette, 95, The Fierce Concierge Who Hasn’t Left Her Parisian Apartment in 6 Years View this post on Instagram A post shared by Documentary Weekly (@documentaryweekly) on Aug 3, 2020 at 9:00am PDT…

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

1. The Uncertain Future of America’s most beautiful soda fountain This summer, the 93-year-old Long Island Mom & Pop shop announced that it was going out of business. The statement said the cause was not COVID, but that the landlord is selling the building housing Hildebrandt’s and the new owners were moving in another direction.…

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

1. Grandparents model other people’s forgotten laundry Chang Wan-ji and Hsu Sho-er have become Instagram-famous for wearing outfits curated from the hundreds of items left behind by absent-minded customers at their laundromat in central Taiwan. ⁣Their 31-year-old grandson and unofficial stylist, Reef Chang, originally came up with the idea to create @wantshowasyoung on Instagram when business slowed…

12 Out-of-the-Box Architectural Oddities

1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it was built once upon a time but the Hundertwasser Tower was actually completed in 2010. At thirty-five meters high and six meters in diameter, the observation tower in South Germany was originally intended to be three times its size but the…

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

1. Guy finds a box of 100-year-old Nudes in his wall “…searched the house more thoroughly and found a trove of century-old erotic photographs, about 120 in all. We’ve identified two studios involved in the making of these photos: The Aurora Studios in Boston, MA and Alta Studios in San Francisco, CA. One of the…

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

1. Relocate to the French Alps with this Restaurant Chalet For Sale A family-run restaurant, with its own two-bedroom apartment, is looking for new custodians to take it on as a commercial opportunity – or redevelop it as a private home. The restaurant known as Les Vieilles Luges, is located in Les Houches of Chamonix Mont-Blanc in the…

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

1. An Entire Old West Town for Sale in New Zealand A detailed replica of an 1860s Wyoming frontier town, set in the heart of a 900-acre ranch has gone up for sale with an asking price of $7.5 million. Found on Bloomberg. 2. French Revolutionary Frescoes Discovered behind the Walls of a Paris Apartment…

13 Things I Found on the Internet (Vol. CXXXII)

1. The Spaceship Palaces of Bolivia Freddy Mamani Silvestre is known as the “King of Andean Architecture,” and he has built dozens of houses boasting bright colors and patterned motifs that originate in indigenous art and architecture. His architectural work in the fast-developing city of El Alto is one element of broader cultural changes that have…

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

1. Academy Theater, Inglewood California, 1940 Still standing, screened movies from 1933 until it became a church in 1975. It got it’s name “The Academy Theater” because it was originally built to be the home and venue for the Academy Awards (the Oscars). But the plans changed. Photographed by Julius Shulman, found here. 2. ‘Sciopticon’…

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

1. The Supremes in Paris, 1965 Found here. 2. The Fisk University Jubilee Singers The university’s A capella group, was established in 1871 – to generate further income for the institution. The original group toured along the Underground Railroad path in the United States, became world renowned, especially favoured by Queen Victoria who commissioned a painting in…

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