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More (old) pictures of Sutro Baths and related etc. here than anywhere else I’ve come across, including this remarkably sharp image of a bather sporting his Sutro’s issue suit.
San Francisco’s ruined Sutro Baths, via Atlas Obscura
Really beautiful ruins; I used to have a whole collection of links about them, but I had totally forgotten …
(via papertissue)
ckck:
Route 66, Illinois.
48 years ago today, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a Boss & Co. Shotgun, in Ketchum, Idaho.
Based on Kent Keith’s The Paradoxical Commandments, often attributed to Mother Teresa
Inspiring, no matter who ultimately wrote it.
yuco:
これが負のアメリカンドリームを表しているグラフ。緑の棒グラフが平均年収、赤い棒グラフが負債額になっており、下の方に年齢が記載されています。
"There are two things to say about him. He was a musical genius; and he was an abused child. By abuse, I do not mean sexual abuse; I mean he was used brutally and callously for money, and clearly imprisoned by a tyrannical father. He had no real childhood and spent much of his later life struggling to get one. He was spiritually and psychologically raped at a very early age - and never recovered. Watching him change his race, his age, and almost his gender, you saw a tortured soul seeking what the rest of us take for granted: a normal life."
