Looking inside the Popular Mechanics 1935 “Flying Boat”: Kitchen Welsh rarebit coming right up. Note the ladder leading up to the wing. Bar The cover is sharp and crystal-clear. It’s my scanner that blurred the picture. A real-life bartender whipping up a gin gimlet for a guy in a suit. Sleeping Quarters Except for...
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I reproduce this Popular Mechanics cover of April 1935 in all of its ball-throbbing glory–because that is the only way to describe the muscularity of 1930s popular journalism. There is nothing I don’t like about this cover. I love the orange and blue contrast, the NRA Code logo in the bottom left, the typography,...
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What the hell isn’t wonderful about Tracey Ullman? Below, her miniature hybrid car from Tracey Ullman: State of the Union. Off-topic, but “Don’t let her have the smallest hoo-hoo in town…”
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Sky buckets, gondolas, sky-trams–technically, aerial tramways–are the most visible invisible transport around. Contrast the Disneyland Matterhorn tramway from the 1950s… With the real aerial tramway at Zermatt, Switzerland–also the Matterhorn…
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Fake Iraq, by Maria Schriber.
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Some companies have narrow specialties, and that describes Decora Doors of Dallas, Texas. Decora supplies hidden doors of many types: art niches, wine doors, DVD doors, and of course, the popular hidden bookcase door. Important to remember that these are not steel security doors. As Decora says… Decora Doors are often utilized as a...
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If you can ignore the typical “artist’s statement” B.S. mumbo-jumbo, you will be amazed at Thomas Doyle’s miniatures… Another angle:
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Arizona-based Creative Home Engineering is one of the more prominent builders of hidden passageways, doors, bookcases, and the like. Prices for basic installations start at around $6,500 and, yes, they will travel to your location if needed. Steve Humble got started in the business when he could find no builder to construct a hidden...
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