Eccentrics
House Music
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 27, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Inventions, Music
Unauthorized Dwellings 12
Once Manhattan was home to squatters. Go to article link for readable text.
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 20, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Urban Life, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1920s, Nostalgia
Becoming Leslie
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 11, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Regionalism, Documentaries, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Visionary Architect
Lots of bizarre stuff from this creator, seen at this page, and also here.And if you're in New York City over the next couple of months, you can visit an exhibit.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 05, 2020 -
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Category: Architecture, Art, Eccentrics, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Odd Ducks: Unusual Aircraft from the Movietone Collection, 1921-1934
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 21, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1920s, 1930s
Louise Arner Boyd
If you can get past the robot voice in the video, you'll get all the amazing facts of this gal's life.Her Wikipedia page.
Text source. (Page taken from hardcopy, not available online.)
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 14, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Explorers, Frontiersmen, and Conquerors, Twentieth Century
John Thoburn Williamson, Parsimonious Millionaire
Source for story. (Follow whole text across multiple pages.)
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 19, 2019 -
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Category: Antisocial Activites, Eccentrics, Money, Twentieth Century
Albert Clark Reed, Disappearing Rocket Scientist
Foto source.
Read the full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 13, 2019 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Eccentrics, Science, 1950s, Sadness
Edmund Love and His Restaurant Quest
In 1964, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST profiled Edmund G. Love, who intended to eat his way through approximately 5000 NYC restaurants.
By 1973, when THE NEW YORK TIMES took notice, his quest had ballooned to 6000.
His 1990 obituary in the NYT says he managed to hit 1750 of them.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 07, 2019 -
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Category: Addictions, Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Eccentrics, Food, Restaurants, World Records, Twentieth Century
Brain Bats of Venus
Just out is the second volume chronicling the improbable career of one of the chief Weirdo artists of all time, Basil Wolverton. Required reading for all WU-vies--and a great gift idea!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 31, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Eccentrics, Books, Twentieth Century
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