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Category / Time travel

Built in the Clouds, they’re the Highest Villages Frozen in Time

When you’re looking to escape the tedium of modern and mainstream tourism, sometimes the only way is up. Today, our armchair travels will take us to some of the most remote (and highest) villages in the world, from Europe to middle America to Egypt. But of course, we’re not just going to drop you on…

Race Movies and the Black-Owned Studios that Thrived Next to Hollywood

There was another Hollywood that thrived once upon a time. From the 1910s to the 1950s, an independent Black American film industry was in full swing, making movies specifically for an all-Black audience, with its own African American directors, stars and studios. The movies they produced, the first alternative American “indie” cinema, are known as…

Time Machine du Jour: A 1960s London Flower Taxi

It can’t be often that you come across a charming little business lost in the archives and think – wow, that’s a really innovative idea! Time travel with us back to a 1960s London when a young couple decided to sell flowers from the back of a taxi… This got me thinking about the classic…

The Snowman, introduced by David Bowie

I remember every detail, as if it was yesterday. Without fail, we would put on the VHS tape on Christmas day after opening presents. I also remember at the time having no idea who David Bowie actually was, just that he was the man that introduced the Snowman in his attic. Here is the full…

The Wicked Society Magazine of the Gilded Age

Before the devil wore Prada, there was a Civil War veteran, a so-called “pasha of the Gilded Age,” who was one of the most vilified characters in magazine publishing. Arising out of nowhere like our beloved Gatsby, William d’Alton Mann became the kind of person all society people wished to emulate (in practice). He was well read,…

A Night at the Gargoyle, London’s Forgotten Den of Debauchery Decked out in Matisse’s Masterpieces

London of the 1920s was the time of the Bright Young Things, the group of aristocrats and socialists who flourished in the years following World War I and before the economic crisis that would hit the globe at the end of the decade. And there was no other place that served more as a central…

Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Paris Catacombs

For our latest adventure on the Don’t be a Tourist in Paris web series, we go 30 feet beneath the city to discover the subculture of iconic midnight movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show just in time for Halloween. Below ground, we’re in the subterranean cinema of Alexander J E Bradley a photographer, filmmaker and catacomb-dweller (aka. cataphile).…

Pictures of a Peaceful Paradise Lost: Palestinians & Jews Co-Existing in 1919

I prefer this place to be your safe haven from political opinion and the horrors of the news. While we hold onto hope for humanity and healing, I share with you an archive collection of photographs transporting us to a more a peaceful time for this ancient and diverse culture… The photographs were taken in…

Movie Pitches for Women the World Forgot

Their stories have been buried in the past, eclipsed by others who perhaps achieved more or possessed qualities the world deemed more important. But today, we’re meeting a few muses that fell down the back of the history’s sofa. I’m filing the result of today’s internet finds under “women to make movies about”. Princess Amélie…

Tune into the Forgotten Dial-a-DJ Jukeboxes of Yesteryear

Isn’t she a beauty? I had one of those hallelujah moments while browsing the collectible pages of Ebay today when I came across this seldom seen “Empire State Building” jukebox circa 1935. Invented by Ken Shyvers, the same guy who invented pinball machines, the Shyvers Multiphone is about 50cm tall with a 19cm square base and…

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