Winston Churchill’s Mother is Hot
Sizzling, steamy hot. Oh sure, by today’s standards, she would probably never make the tabloid pages. But considering the time period and […]
Cutaway of Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic Snow Cruiser, 1939
Click Here For Large (1353 x 1200 Pixels) In an issue of LIFE magazine from October 30, 1939 that I have […]
Cutaway Collection
What has happened to the lost art of cutaway drawings? In this age of fast computers and gaming consoles, we can navigate […]
Gerard Darrow: From Quiz Kid to Broken Man
The Ephemera: A sweet-faced, intelligent 9 year-old boy–Gerard Darrow–who performed on a radio show called Quiz Kids. LIFE says that Darrow “rescued […]
From New Orleans Debutante to Wife of a Marxist, Divorce “Pioneer,” and Reiki Practitioner
The Ephemera Photo – Flickr/Bustbright Fortune, December 1938: About this time every winter in New York, if you happened to pass the […]
Illustration Art Mania
I’m obsessed. It began a few weeks ago when, on an Internet auction, I purchased an original drawing called “Rocket Speedway,” by […]
Forgotten Woodstock: Seattle Pop Festival, 1969
Drive through Woodinville, Washington and it has the glimmer of an Eastside Seattle suburb that is rapidly expanding. With its Target, brewpubs, […]
Octopussy, By Ian Fleming: One of the Best Bonds
I picked up Octopussy, by Ian Fleming, sometime in the 1970s at the small-town public library where I grew up. It was […]
High Tea at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle
I’ve only had high tea a handful of times, as I’m not much of a tea-drinker. But high tea at a grand […]
Years and Years of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, Free and Online
In all their glorious beauty, well over a century of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics covers. And all the pages following the […]