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A visual history of crinolines – fashion’s most magnificent disaster

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Queen guitarist, astrophysicist and wildlife campaigner Brian May is a man of diverse interests, but his latest project, a book on the history of the crinoline, is perhaps his most astonishing yet. Around 1840, skirts began to widen – slowly at first, but within a decade a hem could measure as much as 33ft round. … Read more

What It Looked Like Wednesday: A&P, Delaware at Great Arrow, 1948 – BN Chronicles

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I’ve blogged about his location before (in what is in that space now) but this is what it looked like back in 1948

Now known as Marshalls Plaza, the strip mall has also been known as Great Arrow Plaza and, when it first opened in 1948, the Delaware Park Shopping Center. The apartment buildings in the background are still recognizable. The big tenants when this photo was snapped were the A&P market and the Western Savings Bank branch — which was opened after…

Source: What It Looked Like Wednesday: A&P, Delaware at Great Arrow, 1948 – BN Chronicles

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