Category Archives: Popular entertainment
It’s always the same old story
A few years ago, the New York Times featured an article about the short-lived Greenwich Village Bookshop and its very special door. More specifically, about the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, which…
Rudimentary phonograph technology
Once, for only 35¢ you could give your beloved the gift of sound – in the form of an Amazing Talking-Tape Card. Inexpensive chivalry was not yet dead. This particular example was made by the…