On our recent road trip, we made lots of interesting discoveries. One of my favorites was this gem: Carter’s Antique Toy Museum in Zionsville, Indiana. About seventeen miles from Indianapolis, it’s a building with three floors...
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The Bowes Museum is in North East England and has, among its collection, a silver swan automaton that dates back to 1773. It was purchased for £200 in 1872. Not a bad price–they should have bought two, it might have been cheaper...
Radioactivity–it used to be a selling point. Here’s a gallery of glowing goodness (in French, but a lot of the images speak for themselves). Neatorama likes the Radium chocolate bar. I like the Radium Emanation Bath (pictured)...
This nice gentleman will explain everything. Please take notes if you feel the need to do so. And remember: nothing changes until midnight on Saturday. Direct link for the feedreaders. Found via VideoSift.
There’s just something irresistible about old paperbacks. Especially the pulp kinds with titles like we’ve posted before. I love these things. I’ll go ahead and tell you I’ve added Nine and Death Makes Ten to our list...
You can read more about it here at Cartoon Brew (one of the commenters even delivers some info on what’s going on and translations and such), but it’s a Japanese cartoon from 1934 that takes place two years in the future where a...
The darkest days of winter seem to be behind us here at the Technocave, but for all of you who would like a little more warmth in your lives right now, we have an interesting heater to share. Having just moved into our first house, we are...
English Russia has posted an array of toys from the Soviet Union. Here’s what they have to say: During the Soviet times all the toys were manufactured only on a dozen of state owned factories. All toy designs were certified with...
Flickr pool of weird and sometimes disturbing vintage Halloween bits.