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Am I the only one who tears up at the sight of old roadside signs?
The above is from a flickr collection of old Polaroids of roadside signs from the 1960s (via Boing Boing, my new favorite website of all time precisely since it posts stuff like ). A&P was my...
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The last gasp of the old Coney Island?
Gawker reports: On Friday, lease negotiations broke down between the owner of Astroland, Coney Island’s honky-tonk, 46-year-old amusement park, and its landlord, Thor Equities. It was abruptly...
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There’s a Wisconsin Death Trip flickr? I had no idea.
And they say reading blogs is just a waste of time. Vance at the Edge of the American West points me too a flickr set up by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin full of pictures from one of my...
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The Cardiff Giant.
I saw the Cardiff Giant yesterday in Cooperstown, New York. Here’s the story from the Museum of Hoaxes: The Cardiff Giant, a gigantic ten-foot tall stone man, emerged out of the ground and into...
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Emperor Norton.
Did I mention that I’m in San Francisco? My new favorite Californian is Emperor Norton. From the Encyclopedia of San Francisco: To today’s San Franciscan, the name “Emperor Norton” conjures up images...
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Best Presidential Grave?: Chester Arthur.
This is a picture from my trip to New York last week: The grave is in a cemetery in Albany and barely marked other than by the flags. Indeed, if you’d like to be buried near Chester Arthur’s final...
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Do you dig graves?
Neil: Yeah, they’re alright. I never thought I dug graves until I spent some time in a seventeenth century graveyard in downtown Salem, Massachusetts with my friend Tad Baker. Those graves offer a...
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Best. Sign. Ever.
Spotted near the Lowell National Historic Park in lovely Lowell, MA: What do you think? 1955? 1945? Sorry I can’t take a better picture with my Blackberry, but I think you can see that the mule’s legs...
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