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| A stunning color photo from the Great Depression and WWII Pic from gearpatrol |
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Ed's Easy Diner
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| A couple who liked the place so much they bought the shirt Link to Ed's Easy Diner Pic from Royzen's Gallery |
William S. Burroughs' cut up
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| William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is one of the most politically trenchant,culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century. Cool guy! Pic from Royzen's Gallery, it shows a cut up by the bevelled glass |
Motogirls dogfight
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| Dogfight between a mod girl and a motorcycle girl - who's going to win? My bet: the blonde one! |
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tea time on Shoreditch High Street
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| Tearoom on Shoreditch High Street, open on weekends only Pic from Royzen's Gallery |
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Leonard
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| Leonard Bernstein 1918, Born on this day, composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist |
Ducati Sport Classic
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| Revival Cycles' Ducati Sport Classic project has entered phase 2......and it's getting really damn serious! Follow them! |
Saturday, August 24, 2013
'Big Boy' Crudup
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| 1905, Born on this day, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup. Wrote Elvis' first hit 'That's All Right (Mama)' as well as two other songs covered by the King, “My Baby Left Me,” and “So Glad You're Mine.” Crudup earned the nickname “The Father of Rock 'n' Roll.” |
Friday, August 23, 2013
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
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| Singer-songwriter Aly Spaltro aka Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Link to website Link to song "The Nothing Part II" with article 1/article 2/article 3 , and cover song from Bob Dylan "All I really want" |
Urban neighbors
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| "Cities are just one more setting for evolution, a new set of selection pressures. Those adaptable early immigrants, and other species that once avoided cities but are slowly moving in, are changing fast." Link to article |
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Remembering Ray Bradbury
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| Remembering the legendary writer Ray Bradbury who would have been 93 today. He wrote the dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451", published in 1953. Link to article |
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
SS Leviathan
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| SS Leviathan (former "Vaterland") in Boston The former German ship "Vaterland" was seized by the U.S. Navy during WWI and renamed "Leviathan". The original builders of this ship, Blohm and Voss, refused to send any blueprints or anything at all over pertaining to this ship as the Navy kept it for war reparations for WWI. The Americans had a hell of a time translating all the prints and systems to English. |
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Memphis Recording Service
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| Receipt of Elvis first recording session of the song "That's all right, Mama", on January 4 (not 6), 1954, at the Memphis Recording Service studio (known as Sun Records) |
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