Sep
07
2021
A little while ago I wrote about the iconic burger joint Rossow's U-Tote-Em in Ellensburg, Washington. Such a cool place, thought I'd share a few more pics. I really love the lady bug trash cans. That will get a...
Sep
02
2021
If you ever happen to be in Ellensberg, Washington I recommend you swing by the Rossow's U-Tote-em burger joint. While you're there wolf down a famous Ellensburger for some fine roadside dining. For me though, the real attraction is...
Jan
09
2018
Thought I'd share one of my favorite feeds on Instagram, Socialist Modernism. A great feed that is used to create an interactive map that gives the context, history and ultimately meant to preserve Soviet Modernist architecture before it is...
Jun
15
2015
I try to have coffee with a good friend every week at Louisa's Cafe & Bakery in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood. This restaurant is great and I enjoy hanging out there. Beyond the great coffee, another thing that I love...
Sep
28
2012
Curated from the fantastic folks at Flickr, I present 24 great images of mid-century bowling alley architecture. Though, I am personally a terrible bowler, I have a particular fondness for these palaces of populuxe.
I'm sure the Dude, Walter and...
Aug
24
2012
This collection is curated from the Vintage Motel Signs Flickr group. It's amazing collection of mid-century signage. Live the populuxe area all over again! You'll see parabolas, dingbats, boomerangs and amazing typography! Don't take my word for it, check...
Aug
10
2012
Yes, clip art is boring and cliché, but looking at the cliché's of the past makes them seem new, ironic and way cooler than they ever were at the time. As they say in archeology (okay Raiders of the...
Aug
03
2012
From the populuxe era I present these 20 great space age pop album covers as examples of the space race seen through the eyes of suburbanites after 3 martinis!
Jan
03
2012
For this installment of Typography Tuesday I had to share Veer Presents: "Our Fonts, Our Friends." This clever ad mixes some of my favorite things, fonts, mid-century modern esthetic and clever production. Fantastic!
"Our Fonts, Our Friends" is the first...
Sep
19
2011
Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes post-war developments in modern design from roughly 1945 to 1965. -from the video Eames Era (Mid Century Modern Design Today)
The post war, Mid Century Modern era...
Dec
01
2010
It's Wednesday, so that means ladies and germs it's time for another installment of digital ephemera. Which is a collection of interesting bits and bytes I've run across on the information super highway in the past week.
Mid-century Modern &...
Sep
23
2010
A few interesting bits of digital ephemera I've found on the information super highway in the last week.
Mid-century Modern & Tiki
Paul Malon's Flickr Stream, an amazing collection of mid-century ephemera, you simply MUST check this flickr photostream if you...
