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A Pinup makes a caboose a home
March 1943. “Conductor G. Reynolds, checking his waybills in a caboose of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad between Argentine and Emporia, Kansas.” Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of...
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Corner Store – Boston’s oldest surviving brick building.
The Old Corner Bookstore. Some have billed this as the first brick building in Boston, but that fact is in dispute. What is not in dispute is that this is a wonderful relic from years past. And...
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A New Kind of Scam – This email is NOT from General Motors
Here’s a new one. I fear it will catch some people in its snare, but I’m putting it up here in case anyone is searching to ascertain its validity. This email is not from General Motors. It is a scam....
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Philadelphia – 3rd International Sculpture Exhibition, 1949
My father was an actor by trade and a sculptor by avocation. He was very good at it, and worked in clay, wood, and stone. When he passed (hang head), most of his work was donated to local musea; a few...
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The driverless car: 60 years on, and still on the drawing board.
In a story published in 1953 entitled “Nobody Here But…”, the Good Doctor Asimov wrote, “We were especially interested in the automobile angle. Suppose you had a little thinking machine on the...
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Forskolin – It sounds vaguely indecent.
Just got this in my spam box today. It appears that Dr. Oz has now moved from hawking garcinia cambogia to this new garbage, Forskolin. The name sounds thoroughly unsavory for reasons I won’t go into...
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Congratulation from Samsung. Uh, No.
In yesterday’s email: SAMSUNG UK HQ SAMSUNG Office (Paddington), London, United Kingdom. London, W6 9PE. Company No: 4620511 FROM THE DESK OF SAMSUNG 2014 PROMOTIONAL AWARD. Dear Email Owner, This is...
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View from the Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1907-1915
Seen at /r/HistoryPorn. Of note are the many factories, including Uneeda Biscuit.
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Headlines don’t sell papes… Newsies sell papes!
Newsboys and girls in New York, 1910. Much more history about New York’s Newspaper Row can be seen at 6sqft.com. I loved the movie Newsies, but photos from the era give the lie to all the song and...
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Found: The Swan Song of a Modern Hiawatha
(The above image is from a Don Martin strip entitled “After the Rains,” and is not related to the text below other than by analogy.) For decades, I’ve had a snippet of a poem running around in my...
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John Cleese to quit movie making
And that’s sad. But in a larger sense, there is a time and a season for everything. Cleese’s announcement was made public in The Mirror, reflecting comments made at a promotional event at the...
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Rabbi, is there a proper blessing for the Czar?
There’s no question in my mind that websites like Yahoo! Answers, FixYa and other such social answer sites are generally not worth the powder to blow them to Hell with. The blind leading the blind is...
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Just Telling It Like It Is
I am re-blogging this in toto from “Not Always Right” because it’s hilarious, and pretty much summarizes a huge percentage of the kind of nonsense retail workers have to deal with. Just Telling It Like...
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Another phishing Scam to watch out for
Your Apple ID was just used to download Skate Simu 3$ from the App Store on a computer or device that had not previously been associated with that Apple ID. To: (redacted) Date: Oct 13 (2 days ago)...
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THE MOST IDIOTIC SCAM OKAY
I’ve gotten hundreds of emails from Nigerian (or other nationality) scammer, but this one just made my head spin with it’s stupidity. From: “BARR. JOHN KURTY” <office_moneygram@yahoo.com>...
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1939 – Gateway District, Minneapolis, MN
I wonder if this was before or after the great market crash? A friend much smarter than I just pointed out that the crash was in 1929, not 1939. I was never very good at historical dates.
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Victoria Station, November 23rd, 1896
I love old pictures like this. It’s intriguing to see the headlines, and also to realize that London had a functional and practical underground before the turn of the 1900s. Found at /r/HistoryPorn,...
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The Cats of Sydney Harbor Bridge
I happened across this picture on reddit today and wondered about the backstory: The post intimated that this cat was named George. A little digging intimates that it’s not impossible, but that there...
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“Walmart” Secret Shopper Scam
Today’s scam email: From: “Walmart .” <appstore_–itunes@outlook.com> To: [obfuscated] Subject: Part time Job Hi there, Will you like to make extra cash, click the link below for more details....
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To Protect Yourself from Common Scams, Do This
FIRST: Be Very Careful with Cashier’s Checks! These are extremely easy to forge on pre-printed forms available anywhere like Staples, Office Max, etc. All the criminal needs is a laser printer. NEVER...
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