Thirty-eight years ago this weekend, this was the double feature playing The Garden Theater, 1187 N. High.
If you weren’t around back then, the Short North was a very different place. Instead of restaurants, shops, and half-a-million-dollar condos there were cheap apartments, boarded-up…
This c. 1911 postcard is about the most sinister-looking image of University Hall I’ve ever seen. It looks like something a student might see in a nightmare. I might find some use for it on the website around Halloween.
You’ve got the creepy Victorian building with towers and turrets,…
Friday, April 6, will mark 95 years since the United States entered The Great War.
The US was almost completely unprepared for war and raced to catch up. Training camps were hastily set up to prepare men for battle. The third largest of these was built just north of Chillicothe and named…
Born July 20th, 1869. Howard Thurston is often refered to as the “King of Cards”. He was perhaps the most famous magician of his time, noted for his remarkable skill with a pack of playing cards.
With his popularity gradually increasing, Thurston gave an impromptu performance for Leon…
Thurston’s greatest mystery the vanishing whippet Willys-Overland car : the wonder show of the universe. c.1925
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Giant banner art for Blue Moon Comics in San Rafael! Comic book characters sitting in a tree, R E A D I N G.
Joey Chou
Taking a break from the Cuba series to show you these amazing Viewmaster images from Coney Island, 1956. Managed to scan them, allign them and 3Dify them. Enjoy! This first one is the outside of the Steeplechase Park.
Moonlight view of N. High St., looking south from just north of Spring St. I believe that’s the famous Chittenden Hotel on the right, built and named for H.T. Chittenden, a streetcar millionaire, real estate developer, hotelier, history buff, and songwriter, who also lent his name to…
These are some of my favorite images from the new book Soldier Dogs. There are more pictures in our slideshow today.
Military Working Dogs play a crucial part in America’s armed services. The best known “Soldier Dog,” Cairo, put crucial canine skills to work in the SEAL Team Six operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. Other Military Working Dogs serve as everything from bomb sniffers to troop companions to search and rescue dogs (and also serve in darker roles, such as duty at Guantanamo Bay). Their handlers and trainers, devoted dog lovers down to a man, form an unusually close-knit fraternity within the military.
Soldier Dogs: The Four-Legged Heroes Of Iraq And Afghanistan
(via npr)
