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

1. Cinderella City Mall: Before & After Cinderella City Mall was a large shopping center located in Englewood, Colorado, United States. The mall was officially opened for business on March 7, 1968 and through the early 1970s, business was spectacular at Cinderella City. It was said that over 15,000 people visited the mall daily… During a…

The French Fartist who Headlined at the Moulin Rouge

I can imagine the Moulin Rouge had some pretty exotic acts in its heyday, but entertaining an audience with rhythmic flatulence? Surely our ancestors had a little more class! Meet Joseph Pujol, professional fartist and one of the most popular and highly paid stage performers in Europe prior to World War I. Posters all over Paris billed…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today Vol. CCXXXII)

1. Inside Bangkok’s First Ever Department Store, Frozen in Time Built in the 1960s, Bangkok’s Nightingale-Olympic store remains unchanged today, preserved in its retro state In Bangkok’s lustrous, tech-fluent cityscape…it remains – madly and somewhat mightily – untouched, refusing to modernize its distinctive Brutalist façade, sun-bleached signage and novel interiors. Full photostory by Phil Dunlop…

Oh, Just Harvesting Edible Mushrooms inside an Abandoned Water Park

We don’t hear enough follow-up stories about abandoned places that find happy endings, but today I came across a familiar derelict site from my archives that has secured itself a bright future. The last time I stumbled upon the old Tropicana water park in Rotterdam, it looked as if the mould was making itself quite comfortable around the edges…

What became of America’s Drive-Thru Fotomat?

Remember these? Once upon a time, in an era when mankind had to wait an unimaginable 24 hours to see how holiday snaps and selfies had turned out, there was … the trusty Fotomat. A bright and compact little kiosk easily recognisable by its pyramid-shaped gold-coloured roof, usually positioned in a large parking lot outside a…

This Italian Prison has its own Designer Restaurant

When you are looking for somewhere to go out for dinner a prison probably isn’t the first place you would think of. However, this unique restaurant may change your mind… Located inside the largest prison in Piedmont, Italy, Casa Circondariale Lorusso e Cutugno, with over 1300 inmates, ‘Liberamensa’, which literally translates to “free canteen,” offers…

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

1. England’s Smallest Castle is For Sale This is Molly’s Lodge, a Grade II Listed castle that sits on a 0.61 acre plot of land near the village of Long Compton in Warwickshire. Originally a gatehouse for the Weston Park Estate on the northern edge of the Cotswolds, Molly’s Lodge was built by the famous…

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

1. Middle Class Harlem in the 1920s & 30s “In a controversial show, photographer James VanDerZee revealed middle-class Harlem to the wider world. It drew record crowds to the museum [Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969]. And while it incited a picket line of protesters disparaging the show as a culturally patronizing and racist white man’s view…

Who wants to Help Build the Largest Art Car in Burning Man History?

Who wouldn’t want to ride into America’s largest occult festival on the biggest, baddest float in town? Better yet, what if you could say you helped build it? This week in completely average volunteer recruitment news, a non-profit organisation is calling for volunteers to come and join them in the Mojave Desert to help create the largest art car in…

What History Didn’t Tell Us about the Nazi “Super Baby” Breeding Program

If there was one subject that could ever truly capture my attention at school, it was the monster story that was Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. I’ve admittedly always been a ‘bad reader’, but outside of class I devoured books on the war as a teenager and still to this day, there seems to be no end to its disturbing secrets…

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