The Lost City

With the Lights out...

2007-03-21T13:25:00.000-05:00

With the Lights out..., originally uploaded by Apidya.

Coin slot

2007-02-03T13:51:00.000-06:00

coin slot, originally uploaded by shutterbabe510.

Back when Coca-Cola cost a dime, and it came in a glass bottle and tasted like it, too.

Getty Speaker

2007-01-11T17:16:00.000-06:00

Getty Speaker, originally uploaded by e50e.

Ohio Theatre, Louisville, KY

2007-01-11T16:26:00.000-06:00

Ohio, originally uploaded by eqqman.

ICTOEP

2007-01-11T16:14:00.000-06:00

ICTOEP, originally uploaded by kylejones.

Park Central Hotel, South Beach

2007-01-11T16:13:00.000-06:00

Park Central Hotel, South Beach, originally uploaded by Tom McFarlane.

Austin Powers is hiding in there too!

2006-11-29T13:39:00.000-06:00

austin powers is hiding in there too!, originally uploaded by cybele malinowski.

Night Scene: The Barbershop

2006-11-29T13:34:00.000-06:00

Night Scene: The Barbershop, originally uploaded by paul_mysterioso.

Kingdom

2006-11-29T13:33:00.001-06:00

Kingdom, originally uploaded by Salem8.

The Salton Sea

2006-11-29T13:33:00.000-06:00

SaltonSea3, originally uploaded by sproutgrrl.

The Only Seafoods

2006-11-04T16:16:00.000-06:00

The Only Seafoods, originally uploaded by SqueakyMarmot.

The Cotton Building was built in 1911 at Hastings & Carrall Street when the area was Vancouver's bustling downtown core. The Only Seafoods is Vancouver's longest surviving restaurant at the same location.

--SqueakyMarmot

Crest Theater box office

2006-04-02T14:27:00.000-05:00

crestboxoffice2, originally uploaded by abrietta.

No 3-A Folding Brownie

2006-03-21T11:58:00.000-06:00

No 3-A Folding Brownie, originally uploaded by olivander.

This large-format Kodak from approximately 1915 shot 3.25" x 5.5" negatives, which were then typically contact-printed directly onto postcards. If you've ever found old family photographs with postcard printing on the backs of them, they most likely were taken with a camera like this one.

Magic Carpet Mini-Golf Fish & Pirate Ship

2006-03-21T11:54:00.000-06:00

Magic Carpet Mini-Golf Fish & Pirate Ship, originally uploaded by Neato Coolville.

Neato Coolville made this remarkable find down in Missouri. He writes: A pirate ship and a giant fish sit on the side of a road. They were once from Magic Carpet Mini-Golf that was torn down several years ago.

The Palms Motor Hotel

2006-02-13T21:44:00.000-06:00

The Palms Motor Hotel, originally uploaded by uyf_aive.

The Cyclone

2006-01-17T14:26:00.000-06:00

cyclone, originally uploaded by sgoralnick.

Elegance

2005-12-21T17:01:00.000-06:00

elegance, originally uploaded by isto-ica.

It's always 1932

2005-12-14T20:54:00.000-06:00

It's always 1932, originally uploaded by Wyrd.

Bristol Temple Meads railway station, engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Ralson Cycles

2005-12-13T16:20:00.000-06:00

Ralson Cycles, originally uploaded by Irina Souiki / Riri.

A grand entrance

2005-12-08T10:58:00.000-06:00

A grand entrance, originally uploaded by olivander.

Opened in 1928, the Mayo Clinic's Plummer Building was the tallest building in Rochester, MN, until 2001. Its tower houses a carillon which can be heard chiming throughout the city.

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

Homestead Theatre

2005-12-05T15:36:00.000-06:00

Homestead Theatre, originally uploaded by Zzzzt!Zzzzt!.

Once upon a Schwinn

2005-11-29T12:56:00.000-06:00

Bike seat, originally uploaded by Sweet Freak.

Vacancy

2005-11-29T12:26:00.000-06:00

Vacancy, originally uploaded by Bob Jagendorf.

Lenox Lounge on the Sepia Screen

2005-11-29T11:59:00.000-06:00

Lenox Lounge on the Sepia Screen, originally uploaded by MsAnthea.

http://www.lenoxlounge.com

You don't go here for the warm & cosy atmosphere catered by a warm & fuzzy staff, at least not in this modern era. Nor do you go for the remarkable drinks (unlike Milk & Honey) or single "talent". You go here for the history, architecture, jazz & the dedication towards a diverse NYC neighborhood. They just don't build or maintain establishments such as the Lenox Lounge in the 21st Century. Too bad.

--MsAnthea

Bakelite Viewmasters

2005-09-25T18:50:00.000-05:00

bakelite_view_masters, originally uploaded by Luke H.

Although today considered a toy, View-Master began it's commercial life in 1939 as a home-entertainment medium intended for adults.

Invented by William Gruber and marketed by Harold Graves through Edwin and Fred Mayer's photo-finishing, postcard, and greeting card company, Sawyer's, View-Master was a successor to the stereograph viewer popularized in the 19th century by Oliver Wendell Holmes. But View-Master was an improvement over the traditional stereograph; it offered seven stereo views on each reel, compared with the stereograph's one view per card, and provided them in color by using Kodak's (then-) new color transparency film, Kodachrome.

From 1939 to 1950, View-Master reels were sold individually. In the early 1950s, Sawyer's had a sufficient catalog of titles to begin grouping existing single reels into packets according to common subjects (for example, reels 251, 252, & 253 were sold as a Carlsbad Caverns packet). --Viewmaster History