A suggestion from Annie Atkins
From a series of COVID-era postcards.
Venting
The question has haunted me: Why the vents in cabinets under kitchen sinks? I found three likely answers.
Canteen Canteen Canteen
A mid-century vending-machine triptych.
Moving to Elgin Park
The creator of an imaginary town has died.
A Covered Swivel Rotary File
A Cooper Hewitt Object of the Day.
“Technocracy Debunked”
An Everyday Science and Mechanics cover, February 1933.
TWA, JFK
The photographer Max Tuohey tours the Trans World Flight Center, aka the TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Milwaukee bus passes
Just beautiful.
“Operative Potters”
What’s an “operative potter”?
Old Grote
“Our Grote medicine cabinet is now gone, along with our other bathroom fixtures. Goodbye, old Grote. Goodbye, inside-cabinet-door labels.”
Rolodex
Cooper-Hewitt’s Object of the Day.
The all-in-one room
Mid-20th-century living, with Mary and Russel Wright
Easier living with Mary and Russel Wright
Modern living, mid-20th-century