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Category / Time travel

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…

Salvatore Ferragamo and his Celebrity Feet

In 1914, sixteen year old Salvatore undertook the long journey to the United States to live with one of his brothers who worked at a cowboy boot factory in Boston (a cowboy boot factory in Boston?!). The eager young Ferragamo went to the factory to learn more about the art of making footwear. The modern…

HistoryPin: An Online Time Machine

As if Google Street View wasn’t already cool enough, allowing you to virtually be in two places at once, there’s a new website in town that’s translocating you one step further– into history!   You’ve probably looked up your street or your house on Google Street View already, right? What if you could also compare…

American Cowgirls of the 1940s

This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share. These snaps are a melange of photo stories by LIFE photographers, Nina Leen, Peter Stackpole and Cornell Capa between 1947-48 at the…

20 Rare Photographs of Oscar Winners as You’ve Never Seem Them

Oscar night is here and over the next few days we’re going to be inundated with photographs of the most recognizable faces. So how about a few that perhaps we don’t recognize… 1. Charlie Chaplin Honorary award for Circus in 1928, Honorary lifetime achievement award in 1972 and Best original Score for Limelight in 1973.…

Color Snapshots of Paris in another Era (Part II)

A few months back, I came across a website called Paris 1914, a collection of color photography made in Paris using Autochrome Lumière technology between 1914 and 1918. A wealthy banker of the time, Albert Kahn commissioned four photographers to create an archive of the period using the technique based on a series of color filters made from microscopic grains of…

The Guy with a Full-sized Train in his Basement

Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll need two things, according to the guy with a train in his basement: 1) To be completely insane. 2) To have an amazing wife. This is the inconceivable DIY project of ‘train-obsessed nut’, model train manufacturer and father of three living…

15 of those Awkward Moments in History

1. When the Centro Universitario of Mexico abbreviated all over their sports uniforms: Top row, second from left: “Not me!”   2. Tobacco Companies getting away with it:   3. ‘Alfonso’, not trying to look like anyone in particular at all:   4. When women thought they had options:   5. When this book did…
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