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America’s Last Drive-in Movie Theatres

Photograph by Thomas Wrede At their peak, in the late 1950s, there were almost 5000 drive-ins. Today, there are only 366 drive-ins operating in the United States. The outdoor theaters saw a dramatic decline in the 70s and 80s and many of their remains can still be found off highways, marked by rusting entrance marquees…

Get Married by a Vending Machine

For many couples, the difference between being officially bound together and just sharing the same toilet is that big, white, expensive wedding. But a big white wedding may not be the elixir of life for everyone. So how about a coin-operated one?! I present to you, the Autowed. For £1 this automated machine will play…

Visit the charming little Village of F*cking in Austria

I‘ve heard Fucking is fabulous in the Spring. Too old for schoolyard humor? Never! It has a population of just 104 and lies 4 kilometres from the German border in west Austria. And it’s name really is Fucking. The unfortunately-named village (pronounced fooking) is a peaceful place. The only crime ever reported here was for the…

The Vintage Double Decker Bus Shop & Friends

Vintage-lover Erin Sutherland found an old-beat up British double decker bus on Craigslist. When she went to look at the 1965 Bristol Lodekka on a used car lot in Springfield, Oregon, it was love at first sight and she bought it then and there. She followed her purchase up with a margarita and several months of…

American Retro Time Capsule Homes

Kitschy design is being reproduced so much these days you can’t really tell if something is actually retro anymore. But what about the original retro homes that didn’t change with the fashion and stayed exactly the same since the day they were built when kitschy living was the future? MessyNessy did some digging on Retro…

Paris’ Utopian Village of Concrete Cabbage

If Ernest Hemingway made Paris a moveable feast, architect Gérard Grandval made its Créteil suburb the vegetable course. Built during the 1970s, the Créteil Cabbages, or “Choux de Créteil,” are French Brutalism at its finest. The ‘utopian’ residency is composed of 10 otherworldly buildings whose balconies extend like giant, concrete petals – hence the nickname, “the…

The Marvellous Mod World of Sci-Fi Supermarionettes

The last place we’d ever think to look for design inspiration would be the bygone genre of television puppetry, but here we are, drooling over the unlikeliest jackpot for mid-century modern style. Enter “Supermarionation”, a world devised in the 1960s by British television producers, with the ability to be at once sightly creepy, yet enviously chic…

Bedtime Reading: The 1960 Official Playboy Club Bunny Manual

This evening, let’s get stuck into the official hand-typed copy of “The Playboy Club Bunny Manual”. You probably weren’t aware that there’s an online association for ex Playboy bunnies where bunnies of the world can unite, find old bunny colleagues, reminisce and most importantly, air all of Playboy’s dirty laundry. Thankfully one such bunny decided to…

10 Reasons to Build a Time Machine and go back to the 1960s

It’s Monday, so let’s contemplate time travel… 1. For the Cars (obviously) 2. We could have gone to a school like this: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1ne8WJUvI&feature=player_embedded] 3. Everything was Cheaper. 4. In the 60s Brigitte Bardot looked like this: Today she looks like this: Okay okay, so she aged naturally which is highly commendable of her but…
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