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It’s Time for Show & Tell with the Vintage Camera Collection You Always Wanted

I found John Kratz and his camera collection on another one of my internet browsing adventures and was immediately taken with his sharp eye for vintage design. I love how some of his cameras just look like miniature art deco buildings. John is an experienced photographer, but here’s the thing about his collection– he hasn’t used a single camera……

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

1. The largest Christian church in the Middle East The Monastery of Saint Simon: The Zabbaleen (meaning literally “garbage people”) village at the base of the Mokattam cliffs began around 1969 when the Cairo governor decided to move all of the garbage collectors to a single settlement. The garbage collectors were largely Coptic Christians and as their numbers…

The Vintage Menu Collector: 25,000 Restaurants by One Woman

I love reading menus. They are the shop windows of the kitchen and provide a playful sense of gambling for what might just be the best of worst meal of your life. Today I stumbled upon a rather mind-boggling collection on the NYPL Digital archives of thousands of restaurant menus dating as far back as 1851.…

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

1. NYC’s Incredible Hidden Gem Hidden in plain sight, book lovers have lived in New York City for years without discovering it…. “The outside may not look like much, but the inside of New York City’s Morgan Library and Museum is like something you’d find in a much-older European town. It was originally the private collection…

An Illustrated Guide to the Human Race circa. 1960s

The internet is a little bit like a maze of doors, some that lead to a spiralling descent of procrastination and some, though not many, can lead to forgotten treasure. Today I picked the winning door and found one of the most impressive online collections of vintage ephemera I’ve ever had the pleasure of stumbling across. Pages and…

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

1. 500 years of walking up the marble stairs of The Leaning Tower of Pisa. Found on Reddit 2. Inside the Penn Station Lost & Found Tucked away in the labyrinth of Penn Station is a window you won’t notice until you need it. Behind it there are tequila bottles, laptops, electric guitars,…

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

1. Baghdad, Iraq, 1965 Not the South of France. Here’s a current photo of the bridge in the background… Found on Reddit. 2. The Isolator The Isolator is a bizarre helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision…

For Sale: Burt Reynolds’ Rolodex and other Awkward Stuff He’s Selling

So here’s a unique Christmas gift– Burt Reynolds’ Rolodex! You could own BR’s very own “little black book” from his home office, including the (possibly/ very likely out-of-date) contact information for his groovy celebrity friends, restaurants, and business contacts. It’s basically priceless (but last time I checked it has a current bid of $900). Burt Reynolds was…

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

1. The Highly Questionable Advertisements of Newport, 1970s-80s “Alive with pleasure!” adverts that were in magazines everywhere in the 70s and 80s, found on Vintage Everyday. 2. The Museum of Endangered Sounds Yep, a place on the internet where sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment are being preserved. Click…

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

1. The Secret Apartment in the Eiffel Tower Now I know I’m that last one you’d expect to be recommending a trip up the almighty tower of mass tourism, but even I didn’t know about this… Within a year of the completion of the Eiffel Tower, it was reported by writer Henri Girard that Gustav…

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