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achillesinhighheels

goneweusedtopop

Ride or Die

heavensghost

Words by Andrea Gibson

catsofyore

Porch guardian. Photo from my collection, ca. 1918 - 1922.

arte-en-poesia

gacougnol

Pasquale Susca

vintageeveryday

In 1963, Heinz Meixner, an Austrian lathe operator, orchestrated a daring escape from East Berlin to smuggle his fiancée, Margarete Thurau, and her mother to the West. Their story is one of the most famous escapes involving Checkpoint Charlie.

Meixner had fallen in love with Thurau while working in East Berlin, but she was denied permission to emigrate. To bypass the Berlin Wall, Meixner devised a plan to drive under the border barriers rather than through them.

While crossing the border on a motor scooter, Meixner feigned engine trouble to secretly measure the height of the steel barrier at Checkpoint Charlie, finding it was 37.5 inches (95 cm) high. He searched for a car low enough to fit and settled on a red Austin-Healey Sprite. To ensure clearance, he removed the windshield and let air out of the tires, bringing the car’s height down to about 35.5 inches (90 cm).

Read more of their story here...

prinnay

Sunrise books, vinyl, cd, buy, sell, trade

prinnay

I guess I’m making a series of courier fox twins doing cozy chores now 🤔🤔

prinnay

The fox twin adventure continues :)

jmfenner91

Daydreaming about tropical places. 🌴 Also, I didn't mention it here yet but I'm currently getting ready to do my first ever convention! I'll be at ECCC (booth F-20). I'll post more about it as it gets closer, but I'll be selling prints, stickers & I'm printing my first ever artbook! I'm only doing 100 copies, but I can't imagine selling out while there. I'll be selling the merch leftovers online after the convention! Hope to see some of y'all there 💗

rozieramati

periodinteriors

Konstantin Andreevich Ukhtomsky, The Small Winter Garden in the Apartments of Alexandra Fyodorovna from Types of Rooms in the Winter Palace, c 1870s, watercolor.