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

1. Casino pool at the Alcazar Hotel: Then & Now St. Augustine, Florida, 1904. This building that now houses the Lightner Museum once housed a huge indoor pool, but the area is now used for the museum’s cafe and antique shops. Found on Only in your State. 2. Esther Williams’ swimming pool The fabulous…

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

1. The Top of the Town Club, Chicago 1951 Found on this Flickr pin-up archive. 2. Cowboy Car Hops as Sex Symbols In the 1940s, men dressed in short shorts and cowboy boots served up women at the Log Lodge Tavern in Dallas Why?… It was a response to the sudden rise of sexy carhops.…

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

1. Why don’t our Gas Stations look like this Anymore? A motorist refueling his Renault car at a bucolic Shell filling station at Blashford, Hampshire, England, 1930 More found on “The Amazing Architectural Evolution of the Filling Station” via Gizmodo. 2. Ziggy Stardust Jumpsuits Shop the jumpsuits here. 3. Cold beer and tons…

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

1. What do Angelina Jolie and Steve Buscemi have in common? One of these people is regarded as one of the most attractive in the world and the other as one of the least, but for one brief, shining moment, they looked exactly alike. Found via Kateoplis. 2. A 1983 first draft script of the…

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…

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…

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…

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

1. Post-Industrial England’s Boarded-Up Houses There are over 600,000 unoccupied homes in England. In times past, these historical houses symbolized the collective past of a flourishing industry and a strong working-class community. Nowadays, hundreds of houses in fairly good condition within former industrial cities stand abandoned and boarded-up awaiting demolition. A look inside the changing…

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

1. A 1920s Abandoned Star-gazer A university observatory built in 1920 on Hanover Drive in East Cleveland. Its last owner was sent to jail for fraud before he could turn it into a luxury home. More info & photos found here. 2. A Fake Town That Became Real Agloe was a copyright trap—a century old trick mapmakers…