More good news for people who want to watch educational TV, but can’t stay awake through it.  American Pickers is a relatively new show on The History Channel, and it is extremely watchable.  But what,  you ask, does that have to do with weird houses and strange places to live?  Only everything!  Mike and Frank [...]

My first apartment was an efficiency apartment with lovely 11 foot ceilings but a total of about 500 square feet.  I thought it was tiny.  The kitchen was part of the bedroom, and ran along one wall with a refrigerator, sink, stove and two cabinets.  I couldn’t cook without making my sheets smell like whatever [...]

Francis Bannerman was obviously a pretty rich guy.  After all, he had enough money to buy 90% of the Spanish-American War’s army surplus (the US side, at least).  And then, because his Manhattan surplus store didn’t have the storage space (and because his neighbors weren’t wild about having a whole lot of ammunition on the [...]