Life in Los Angeles, circa 1938 | It’s always been about the car…

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“They say in L.A. there are only two methods of transportation-
car and ambulance.”
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Dress Whites | Vintage Wimbledon Fashion

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“New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.  Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.”

–Jimmy Connors
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Live Fast, Ride Free | Roland “Rollie” Free’s 1948 World Speed Record

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Rollie Free made made history aboard a 1948 Vincent HRD V-Twin motorcycle, often referred to as the “Bathing Suit Bike” due to the scant attire of its rider, Roland “Rollie” Free.  John Edgar hired Free to make the attempt at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Sept. 13, 1948. Free initially removed the bike seat and laid [...]

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Vintage Southern Living | An Appreciation for History, Tradition, Culture & Style

 
“The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland for an array of Americans who consider themeselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends.”

–Bill Ferris
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We’ve Been Here Before, We’ll Be Here Again | The 1958 Recession & Grassroots Economic Stimulation Package

 
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”    –Harry S. Truman  
 
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Le Corbusier | The Father of “International Style” Design

 
“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” 
 
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“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
 
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“The home should be the treasure chest of living.” 

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“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is [...]

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A Man’s Desk is the Portal to His Mind | How Good Design Creates Order

 
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”  –Dr. Laurence J. Peter

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Cecil Beaton | Fashion Slave from the Cradle to the Grave

 
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary”  –Cecil Beaton

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Noel Coward | Desert Dandy

How timely indeed–
“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.”  
–Noel Coward
 
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Short Pattern of Excellence | 1953

 
“Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, shorts and Windsor knots were considered by some to foreshadow the end of Empire.”  –Angus McGill
 
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