Reference Library Update: The Sixty-First Floor, Please – House Beautiful – April, 1932. Article by Helen Sprackling about the Chrysler Building apartment of photographer Margaret Bourke-White designed by John Vassos. 5 page article & 2 vintage advertisements. Click on the magazine cover to read the article. Please follow and like […]
Movies have the ability to transport us anywhere past, present or future. And with today’s CGI technology the past can be recreated with astonishing accuracy. So it boggles my mind that they can’t get things right. Let me state up front that I will go to see Genius, the film about story editor Max Perkins and his working relation […]
I’m sorry to be doing another post on a toaster just a few months after the one on my Toastmaster 1A1, but I didn’t think I would be adding to the collection what I considered the “Holy Grail” of vintage toasters so soon. When Chris was visiting his family in Florida earlier this month he stopped in at […]
