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Praise The Lord, I’ll Have a New Life
A Bird’s Eye View of New York
These bird’s eye view maps of New York and Brooklyn from the late 1890s and early 1900s really jumped out at me as something cool. I want one to become a giant mural in my apartment or office — that would be really amazing. I stumbled across hundreds of panoramic maps while digging around on the Library of Congress website and was immediately enamored. It would be cool to see a modern interpretation of this.
Canoe Club | Kennebunkport, Maine c.1906
Old Fish House, Kennebunkport, Maine
Club House, Kennebunk River, Kennebunkport, Maine
Canoe, Kennebunk River, Kennebunkport, Maine
Photos from the Detroit Publishing Company archive.
Wear It Down
A while back I gave Nick Maggio one of the bags I made with the gents from Billykirk as a thank you for Nick’s help on a project I had going. Nick is generally pretty darn helpful with stuff and this bag could never have totally conveyed my eternal debt to him, but it was a good start. After Nick received the bag he told me he was gonna wash it and fuck it up a bit — something that definitely sounded intriguing. A few weeks later I followed-up to see how things turned out. Was it a success or did he really fuck things up?
The Wonder Bread
To me, the bread is by far the most important part of the post-Thanksgiving leftover turkey sandwich. The harvest holiday is the one time of the year that I would specifically make a point of eating white bread (and Wonder Bread at that), because it makes a turkey sandwich that much better. Well, this year, I took the white bread turkey sandwich to a whole new level. My last stop in Manhattan before my drive to Ohio was at Takahachi — a newish Japanese bakery in TriBeCa. If you have ever been to Japan, you will know very well the Japanese love of baked goods. They execute bread better than any country with the exception of France. Thankfully, places like Takahachi, Cafe Zaiya and a few other NY based spots supply people like me with the much coveted and utterly amazing Japanese white bread. The bread is super soft with a perfect outer crust and it is so delicious that it makes almost every sandwich taste better. If you have already consumed all of your left over turkey, deploy it for a grilled cheese with soup, which is almost as satisfying. The bread comes in two thicknesses (thick or thin) and no matter which loaf you pick will not be disappointed. White bread from Takahachi will set you back $3.50 and could be the best thing to happen to a sandwich since sliced bread.
Takahachi Bakery | 25 Murray Street (at Church Street) | (212) 791-5550
Happy Thanksgiving | Convenience is the Enemy
I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving. I am especially thankful this chilly November day (in Ohio) for everyone that reads and supports ACL. The site has become quite a little community, something that is really amazing to me. So, my thanks to you all.
Posting this video has become a bit of a tradition and I love to keep traditions alive, so here you go. I hope you and your family have a happy, healthly and well fed day.
P.S. If you are planning on getting up at 4am tomorrow to buy a $3 television-set you should be ashamed of yourself.
Levi’s Vintage Clothing Tokyo
Tucked away in an alley in Tokyo’s Aoyama neighborhood (a very fashionable part of town I might add) is the newish Levi’s Vintage Clothing store — one of the few places in the world that you can get all eight archival variations of the Levi’s 501 and a huge selection of the other normally reclusive LVC goods. This Levi’s Vintage Clothing store in Tokyo closely resembles the Cinch store I checked out in London this past spring, though the store in Japan is much much bigger. It has been a little more than a year since Maurizio Donadi was brought in to help reorganize the Levi’s premium business and these new LVC retail outposts are a clear reflection of Maurizio’s vision. Before Donadi was in the picture, LVC was sort of stuck in limbo between the Levi’s labyrinth of different offerings and retail stores. These days the collection is much more accessible (in terms of consumers being able to find the product), but the goods still carry a significant price tag. Though, I should say it is an understandable price structure given all that goes into the development and production (made in USA, etc) of the product.
