Eccentrics
Wisconsin Weird Statue
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 14, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Statues and Monuments, Eccentrics
Mold-A-Rama
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 11, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Collectors, Inventions, Souvenirs, Mementos, and Tchotchkes, Toys, Statues and Monuments, 1960s
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 Activities, 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
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