You might still see old painted advertisements like these on the older buildings in town, unless your town has gone through several generations of redevelopment. This is also assuming that your town hasn’t created sham “weathered” ads for that “authentic” look.
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Cool set of photos taken last month by a traveller driving up the Demster Highway, past the Arctic Circle, to Inuvik and back.
Geography freaks beware! My new favorite web site to kill a lot of time.
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Cool collection of 60s-era surf movie posters. Most of these are for local showings of surf documentaries and have a neat guerilla design ethic. I mean who on earth would ever come up with a title of Dr. Strangesurf.
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You’re familiar with the phonetic alphabet, right? You know, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu.
I’ve heard a couple of variations, but didn’t realize there were so many. As you might have guessed by now, there’s a web reference for them. My favorite is the WWII RAF one also: Apple, Beer, Charlie, Dog, Edward, Freddy, George, Harry, Ink, Jug/Johnny, King, Love, Mother, Nuts, Orange, Peter, Queen, Roger/Robert, Suga, Tommy, Uncle, Vic, William, X-ray, Yoke/Yorker, Zebra
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Collection of world currency that pictures physicists. Check out the 10 billion dinar note from pre-breakup hyper-inflationary Yugoslavia with Nikola Tesla on it.
Nevada is now offering license plates commemorating it’s past as an atomic bomb test site. The plates feature a mushroom cloud with an atom and Einstein’s E=MC^2 equation. I wonder if anyone has grabbed “KA-BOOM” or “STRNGLV” yet?
detailing Walt’s original plans for EPCOT, which was going to be a real futuristic city with a central translucent dome, monorails everywhere, and real residents . Lots of old-school retrofuture material here.
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Following up on the Arctic metasequoia post earlier (I just love the name metasequoia!), here’s a page with the full skinny on them. Remarkably, metasequoias (love that name!) a.k.a. “dawn redwood” survive to this day in a remote area of China.
