February 13, 2020February 13, 20201960s, ApexUSA, Things You've Never Heard Of Hong Kong Bank of China as Giant Protest Sign As some of us sit around in the burgs and hamlets of the United States, knitting our fingers and wondering about the […]
February 1, 2020ApexUSA, Things You've Never Heard Of Switchboard Receptionist School: Never Again File this one in the annals of things that will never again exist: switchboard operator school. This ad from the June 1, […]
September 28, 2019September 28, 2019Things You've Never Heard Of, Where Did This Person Go? Zona Sage and Paul Camera: Progression, But Not Fast Enough Sharpen your knife, go back in the past, and slice off any section. It all says something. Everything is significant, every mote […]
September 28, 2019September 28, 2019ApexUSA, Things You've Never Heard Of Long-Forgotten G.I. Coffeehouses: Hotbeds of Anti-War Dissent In this age of freely flowing words–often too many of them–it’s hard to imagine a day when conversation actually had to be […]
February 19, 2019February 19, 2019Things You've Never Heard Of Strange “Child Christians” Sect of 19th Century San Francisco The verse in the Bible, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought […]
February 19, 2019February 19, 20191960s, Dissecting Reality, Things You've Never Heard Of YouTube’s Video Discovery System is Creepy As if we needed another example of how technology is creeping into our brains, how about this one: YouTube’s Video Discovery System? […]
December 4, 2018December 4, 20181940s, 1950s, Things You've Never Heard Of, Where Did This Person Go? Man-Eating Sex Queen of Great Neck, New York, Dorothea Matthews This English Tudor house, located at 201 Clent Road, Great Neck, New York, may not look like much of a love nest. […]
November 9, 2018November 12, 20181960s, 1970s, Things You've Never Heard Of Before Borderline Bar & Grill Was Charley Brown’s Restaurant, Thousand Oaks The Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, site of the November 7, 2018 shooting of 12 people, has been around […]
November 3, 2018December 5, 20251940s, Things You've Never Heard Of Woody Guthrie’s Song “Deportee”: Connecting Names With Bodies It was a plane crash that killed 32 people, largely Mexican nationals, and spawned Woody Guthrie’s poem that later became the song […]
October 19, 2018October 23, 20181960s, Cutaway Drawings and Cross-Sections, Things You've Never Heard Of Capping San Francisco’s Panhandle Freeway: a Plan That Never Happened The plan made a lot of sense. If you were going to have a freeway running right through San Francisco’s Panhandle, which […]