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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…

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

1. John Holliday Perry’s Private Underwater Habitat John Holliday Perry started diving at a time that he called a few years B.C., Before Cousteau developed the aqualung. He built most of the submarines for the James Bond movie Thunderball, and kept a few for his own use on a private island in the Bahamas. At…

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

1. Arco Magno, Italy Photographed by Simone Bramante. Reachable by a hike. GPS co-ordinates: 39.8549° N, 15.7921° E. 2. Moon Trees Dozens of so-called “moon trees” scattered around the country, grown from seeds that traveled with astronaut Stuart Roosa on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971… the arboreal oddities were almost lost to history. Want to know…

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

1. Louisiana’s Louis XV Tower In the heart of Louisiana, the antiques dealer Robert E. Smith’s home — a Louis XV fever dream — is surrounded by a moat and fronted by a pair of 300-year-old giant live oak trees. The 66-foot-high, five-story, sanded-concrete tower, which sits on 13 acres, features one large room per…

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

1. Two Victorian Women building a snow woman, 1892 Found on The Gilded Age Society. 2. A Different Kind of Christmas Soundtrack, 1969 3. A Salesman’s suitcase of Christmas lightbulbs, 1960s Found on Pinterest. 4. Christmas in New Orleans Bucket listed. 5. A living Christmas Tree, 1971 Living Christmas Tree: carolers singing massed on stepped…

Meet the Anti-Bob Ross of Korea

When we stumbled upon a work by contemporary artist Kim Beom, we couldn’t believe our eyes, or our eardrums: the Korean artist mixes the two “mediums” together in his 2012 video work, Yellow Scream, imbuing his brushstrokes with every shriek on the human spectrum. Ever wonder what shape agony makes? How pain is measured on…

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

1. Cowboy Car Hops, Dallas, Texas, 1940 A woman from Oak Cliff (a Dallas neighborhood) made a complaint that she did not want to look at girls’ legs when she stopped by her local drive-in; she wanted to look at men’s legs. Drive-in owners thought that this was a great idea, and soon the idea of the…

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

1. A Silver-gilt Foot, 1450 Now in the Landes museum in Zurich. This reliquary was made c. 1450 to house a relic of one of the Holy Innocents massacred on the orders of King Herod.⁣ It is rendered as a realistic silver foot wearing a gilded sandal. Although there are some pearls and a real…

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

1. Juni Ludowici’s ‘Round House’ on the River Thames, 1958 ‘Cause tiny house have been around forever. In 1959, a designer named Juni Ludowici made his own Rundhaus (Round House). Found via Tumblr 2. Inside a $5.5M Floating Mansion in Miami 3. The Perfect Little Cabana in South Pasadena, California Found via Stamps and Stamps.…
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