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

1. Married to the Mob (Graphic content ahead)… Actress Alice Granville shows off two bullet holes in her arm at Roosevelt Hospital after she was shot by her hitman husband, Pete Donahue, 1931. The mob moll said Donahue shot her at a nightclub party to prove his affection. Smitty White was arrested and held at…

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

1. Stock Photos from the 1970s Found via Mashable 2. This 70 Year Old with So much Swag Found on So Bad So Good and UBerlin. 3. Vietnamese “Mods” in the 1960s Found on Flickr via Shooting Film. 4. Los Angeles Might Be Getting Occasional Party Train to Vegas X Train, which has been…

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

1. A “Sky Ladder” made of Fireworks Igniting as It Drifts into the Sky: On June 15, at the break of dawn, artist Cai Guo-Qiang set off a giant white balloon filled with 6,200 cubic meters of helium. As the orb ascended above Huiyu Island Harbour in Quanzhou, China, it carried with it a 500-meter-long…

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

1. The Doo-Wop Motels of New Jersey, After the Summer Tourists Have Gone Wildwoods, the three kitschy southern New Jersey shore towns that are home to the largest concentration of mid-century motels in the nation. In the Wildwoods’ 1950s and ’60s heyday, over 300 “Doo Wop motels” were built there in that unmistakable style: flashy neon…

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

And we’re back! I was spending some quality time with my books on the beach, sorry to keep you hanging there. My batteries are re-charged and I return bearing gifts, thirteen to be precise… 1. San Francisco Before Gentrification, early 1970s Janet Delaney’s South of Market provide a colorful, nostalgic glimpse of the San Francisco a generation ago. She settled in the…

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

1. This 1920s Penthouse Apartment on the Champs-Elysées The apartment of M. Charles de Beistegui, Paris, France, 1929, built by Le Corbusier the Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. Found on the Fondation Le Corbusier website. 2. When both sides of the Channel tunnel…

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

1. Collages of Detroit: Then & Now “Not very long ago, Detroit was a rich, beautiful city, full of vibrant people. I found pictures from the previous century and combined them with the photographs I took during my most recent visit to Detroit.” – Flora Borsi. “What if these people from the past could see their…

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

1. These school chalkboards frozen in time, untouched since 1917 This week, contractors removing old chalkboards at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City made a startling discovery: Underneath them rested another set of chalkboards, untouched since 1917. “The penmanship blows me away, because you don’t see a lot of that anymore,” Emerson High School Principal Sherry Kishore…

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

1. The Pin Up Girl Bunker March 1944: Hundreds of pictures of pin-up girls adorn the entire wall of this bomber crew shack on Adak Island in the Aleutians in Alaska during World War II. Rare photos from World War II’s Forgotten Front, found on TIME/LIFE. 2. The International Flag of Planet Earth A…

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

1. This Treetop Walkway Kirstenbosch Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway just outside of Cape Town in South Africa. Google Streetview has also been here. 2. The Forgotten Pyramids of Meroë In a desert in eastern Sudan, along the banks of the Nile River, lies a collection of nearly 200 ancient pyramids built between 2,700 and 2,300…