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Category / Lost & Found

Ghost Signs: Lost & Found

I known I’m not the only one who searches the streets for signs pointing to the past, so let’s go ghost sign hunting with a selection from the Lost & Found: A Photography Sign book by Derek Stenborg. “Lost and Found is not only about finding lost sign treasure, but it is also about honoring…

The Little Blue Car that Never Was

The Mystery of the Lost Microcar … I love to come across lost cars of the past and this beauty in baby blue is no exception. Behold the Alca Volpe, probably the rarest of Italian microcars, only ten of these cars were ever made following a mysterious turn of events involving the manufacturer… Met with…

The Rise & Fall of the Greatest Ride that Ever Was

I went to a funfair for the first time in a long time on date night last weekend and the sights, sounds and smells of being around those rides caused an overwhelming nostalgia to stir inside me, pulling me back to my childhood. Ambling home clutching our funfair prizes and looking back at the flashing…

The Photographer on the Bridge: 50 Years of Undiscovered Street Snaps

The photographs of Arthur Fields are hiding all over Ireland; perhaps buried in an old dusty box, forgotten in a once treasured photo album or still close to heart in the breast pocket of someone’s coat. For fifty years, seven days a week, 365 days a year, Arthur stood on the same bridge in Dublin taking…

The Bond 1977 Lotus Submarine Found in a Storage Unit, Now for Sale

Like most Bond girls, once 007 had his way with her, this 1977 Lotus Esprit ‘submarine’ was cast aside, while James took his pick from an endless line up of other purring beauties. After filming in the Bahamas for her starring role in The Spy Who Loved Me, the submergible sports car was shipped to…

Guy Finds 1938 Superman Comic in Wall of his new Home, Can Now Buy 10 Homes

Average Joe contractor, David Gonzales paid $10,000 for an abandoned house he spotted in Elbow Lake, Minnesota with his wife last winter. The roof was in bad shape and a neighbouring restaurant had been hoping to buy it and turn it into a parking lot. Mr. Gonzales, a ‘humble working guy’ who remodels homes for a…

The 1950s Nightclub hidden inside an old Food Depot

It was known as the ‘Party Pad’, a clandestine bring-your-own-bottle establishment occupying the upper floor of a deserted produce warehouse on Davis Street, downtown San Francisco. The underground hipster hub was run without a license by a beatnik generation actor and poet known as Eric “Big Daddy” Nord, a well-known figure of the bohemian scene in California…

FOUND by National Geographic

Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic called FOUND, set up in honour of their 125th anniversary. What better way to celebrate a birthday than to go digging through one of the most interesting photographic archives in the world…. ‘FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic…

Screen Testing with Pacino, Brando & De Niro: The Godfathers that almost Never Were

If someone ever admits to having never seen The Godfather (it happens more than you would think), I instantly get dramatic; widening my eyes, dropping my jaw with a gigantic gasp and other over-the-top gestures. It’s obviously a pretty obnoxious reaction but one that I feel is apparently appropriate for describing how I feel about…

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