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Alfa Romeo. Story.
Posted on January 30, 2019
Design fascinates. Victorian architecture. New York Gothic Revival. Post-punk leather jackets. Bespoke Saville Row suits and overcoats. 1940’s camouflage, Roentgen Secretaries, Bren Guns. Automobile marquis. I knew little of Alfa Romeo outside the Spyder Graduate—symbol of the spyder driven by Dustin Hoffman in the film the Graduate. I knew …
New York Story
Posted on January 21, 2019
Thursday, August 16th 2007 Before the crisis New York City was a different city. Before the crisis I was a different fellow. In August 2006 I was gearing up for New York Fashion Week, followed by Coterie (Market Week) with the U.S. Open Tennis at Flushing Meadows thrown in there …
Before the Internet
Posted on January 19, 2019
The other odd day I was looking about eBay for a long out of production 35th scale set ofJaguar lives on in eBay stores. There was a day when these were th gold standard. I still find them superior to most. resin figurines by Jaguar. I found a lot. And I …
North Entrance Tour 2016
Posted on September 8, 2017
Last September we were able to tour the North Entrance to the Western Heights. I have for years wanted to see what was beyond the sealed up entrance. For the first time in fourty odd years the entrance was opened to the public, for small tour groups. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72bdna82okQ&w=560&h=315] The …
Yesteryear Travel
Posted on September 7, 2017
This will not be a post about the Golden Age of Travel. However it represents a different Golden Age. I was sorting through various photo files in iPhoto and came across these three images I snapped in 2005 on the way to my first AMT Torrent in Espana. I made …
An Armour Modellers Workshop
Posted on September 1, 2017
I am and have been since I was seven years of age a model builder. I started with Airfix Spitfires like every other brat in the early 1970’s. Discovering a Tamiya catalogue in the local hobby shop I was instantly enthralled by cartoons of German tankers operating an 88mm gun in …