(You posted this 10 hours ago!? How did I miss it?)
Love to see some more OC here!
So this is on Prince Patrick Island? I can’t imagine how cold it is up there at 76° latitude (not that it looks too cold in your picture).
I love Art Deco too. I’ve been to the Atlas Bar in Singapore which is amazing.
That link 404s for me, is it all there?
Ah, it’s at https://www.amsterdamsights.com/nightlife/tuschinski.html
Thanks! I’d originally found this under the name “Special k” but I discovered it’s Kelenföld and edited in some other links in as you were posting.
I’d guess Germany, since it’s a VW and the artist is German, but I couldn’t find anything authoritative saying the location.
Yeah, it’s not very clear, sorry. I’ve edited.
It was $2 million in supplies and materials for the city, but the total venture lost him ten times that.
To be honest, that’s an AI summary of the Portuguese post. I clearly didn’t check it properly before posting and I don’t know much about Ford himself.
Remember Hanlon’s Razor.
e: The Portuguese post seems to be largely based on this Guardian article, that also describes it as utopian:
Ford believed fair treatment would make his workers more responsible citizens and, in the process, solidify a client base for manufacturers. The Rev Samuel Marquis, one the heads of Ford’s employee relations office, once proclaimed that Ford’s cars were “the by-products of his real business, which is the making of men”.
But some of Ford’s social ideas were highly sinister – most notoriously his anti-semitism, which featured prominently in a newspaper he himself printed, the Dearborn Independent.
I can’t believe that there’s never been anyone that didn’t make that mistake. Probably not enough to justify keeping a counter dedicated to it though…
You confused me at first, but I guess you’re thinking of the Tardis - that’s a police box, not a phone box! British phone boxes are always red, I think.
I’m guessing the chairs and mechanical bits were scavenged, but the outer shell was taken off first which is what we’re seeing.