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Westraven Office Building (1977) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, by Lucas & Niemeijer germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/717002619… Image
The World Jones Made, paperback cover by Robert Emil Schulz, 1956 wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/717008030… Image
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“Seal of the Damned” Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, July 1957 Cover by Virgil Finlay gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/716974725… Image
Bill Yates, Down at the Sweetheart Rink, 1972 atomicrobot.live/post/716976327… Image
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From Reddit: “My Great Great Grandfather seated in the center of two friends. He was a bee keeper along the Hudson River. This photo is on a tin plate. Taken in the 1880s. With extremely slow exposure times you usually don’t see too many smiling faces.} atomicrobot.live/post/716983240… Image
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Detective Comics #105_November 1945_Jack Burnley pencils; Charles Paris inks blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716991703… Image
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When a company sells you something for $2 that someone else can buy for $1, they're revaluing the dollars in your pocket at half the rate of the other guy's.

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