Put on your Miami hat it’s Friday!
Just because he was handsome doesn’t make this photograph any less awkward for F. Scott Fitzgerald.
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald may have been the toast of the town, but in 1925 they sure did take an awkward Christmas photo.
Found in a copy of the Hemingway / Fitzgerald letters that we bought at the Strand, and excerpted in our latest issue, “Intoxication”
Store Front (Mini) - The Disappearing Face of New York
James T. Murray
Photographer duo James and Karla Murray bring the lens of retrostalgia to New York City’s morphing landscape of mom-and-pop shops. For eight years, the Murrays shot the facades of hundred of stores, more than half of which are now gone.
From the retrotastic typographic signage to the beautiful vintage color schemes, these storefronts are priceless time-capsules of an era as faded as their paint coats, haunting ghosts caught in the machine of progress.
(via bookpickings)
How long different animals live, in a vintage infographic by pictogram pioneer Otto Neurath circa the 1930s. Neurath created ISOTYPE, the visual language that gave rise to modern infographics.
Florida spaces. Winter Park Mall.
(By What Makes the Pie Shops Tick?) on Flickr
Which has been demolished and replaced by the Winter Park Village, which I would say really isn’t all that successful.
Vintage Science Posters
