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

1. BBC TV Set Designs Do recognise them? Find the shows they belong to in the BBC Archives via Present & Correct. 2. Perhaps Bandstand Architecture is due for a Comeback? 1930s’ architecture comes to the parks of Whitehaven (above) and Swindon (below). Open air concert halls for a post-Coronavirus world? Found on Leftover London.…

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

1. These Downloadable coloring sheets inspired by Wes Anderson Movies We featured artist Jordan Bolton’s poster work on 13 Things before, but he’s kindly offering these colouring sheets to download for free and help us pass the time. Find the colouring sheets here, via My Modern Met. 2. What Wes Anderson is watching during Quarantine…

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

7. The world’s largest wine cellar is in Moldova. It has streets named after grapes and traffic rules apply The largest wine cellar in the world is Moldova’s Mileștii Mici. Its streets carry the names of grape and visitors drive cars or bikes through it. Traffic rules apply. The second largest wine cellar in the…

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

1. The Vibrant Artwork of Turkish Tobacco Ads Found in this Flickr Album. 2. Istanbul, 1948 Photo by Maynard Owen Williams for National Geographic. Find more like this in Nat Geo Found. 3. The first Black airmen to fly across America James Banning and his mechanic Thomas C. Allen met only 4 days before setting…

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

1. An online museum of plastic lost at sea In 1997, nearly 5 million bits of Lego, much of it sea themed, fell into the ocean when a huge wave hit the cargo ship Tokio Express, washing 62 containers overboard. Among the pieces lost were tiny minifig heads, their faces now mostly blank after decades…

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

1. The longest car in the world (100 ft long, 26 wheels, jacuzzi & diving board, king-sized water bed & helicopter pad) It was called “The American Dream”, built by California custom car guru Jay Ohrberg… began life in the late 1980s at Ohrberg’s Hollywood Cars shop. Ohrberg selected a golden 1970s Cadillac Eldorado as a…

20 Questions with the Real Woman Who Voiced Siri

Today, we meet Messy Nessy’s most unusual muse du jour: Susan Bennett, AKA the real Siri. In the early 2000s she did a hefty chunk of voice work for an intermediate company – unbeknownst that, years later, it would be used to create the personality of the iPhone assistant technology that dotes on roughly 500…

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

1. Purse Lost in the 1950s Becomes an Unexpected Time Capsule In 2019, a custodian at the North Canton Middle School was repairing lockers when he discovered a bag wedged behind a piece of detachable metal. Although dusty and dirty, the contents of the purse were well preserved. They belonged to Patti Rumfola who lost the purse…

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

1. One of the last fully functioning former Woolworth’s luncheonettes On Feb. 22, 1879, 141 years ago this weekend, F.W. Woolworth opened his first five-and-dime store, in Utica, New York. At its peak, Woolworth’s would have around 5,000 stores, and become a symbol of America, before the end came in 1997. But the chain has had…

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

1. Margarita Carmen Cansino, the Brooklyn-born dancer who became Hollywood film idol ‘Rita Hayworth’ Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, her father was from a little town near Seville, Spain and her Irish and English mother performed with the Ziegfeld Follies. During her time at Fox, Hayworth was billed as Rita Cansino and appeared in unremarkable roles, often cast…