This beautiful 1967 Ford Country Sedan Station Wagon looks great, and sounds like it's in original condition. It has a 390 cu-in. V8. It has seat belts! It does not have a rear-facing third row, but the seller says...
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March 2015 Archives
March 31, 2015
Somewhere In New Jersey: 1967 Ford Country Wagon
The Son Of The Woman In The Family Of Man
1953 photo by Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos via NYT Magnum photographer Misha Erwitt has a very nice remembrance of his mother Lucienne Matthews, who was photographed by her husband Elliott Erwitt a few days after the birth of their daughter...
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March 30, 2015
Five Stars All Around
have you ever delivered a baby in the backseat of an @uber ? i have. pic.twitter.com/Xv6arjHgX4— dh (@davidhorvitz) March 30, 2015 [mazeltov to the DHs, who also win tweet of the year, via @soulellis] Update: Everyone's doing well, and...
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March 29, 2015
Herman Miller Hugs Self For Repainting Noguchi Playground
I'm glad it finally got built, and that it's being taken care of, and I'm a fan of Isamu Noguchi no matter what, but I've kind of lost interest in his Atlanta playground as a playground. It just doesn't...
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I Cried A Great Deal At This Newborn Anencephalic Twin Organ Donor Story
When Ross and Sarah Gray learned one of their twins was anencephalic and wouldn't survive, they decided to donate his organs and tissues to medical research. Their sons were born five years and six days ago; today is the anniversary...
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March 27, 2015
OG Etruscan Baby Wrap
A kourotrophos is a type of Etruscan sculpture depicting a female figure carrying a child. Like on this amber pendant at the Getty Villa, where she's got her kid in a baby wrap. OG. There are more pics at...
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March 24, 2015
Les Carrats Kids Furniture By Georges Candilis & Anja Blomstedt
I'd kind of given up hope, but one of my favorite design/inspiration blogs an ambitious project collapsing is back in the swing again. It's great. And one of Andrew's new finds: kids resort furniture by the French architect Georges...
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Kid Meets Heroes
2yo Quincy got to meet his heroes Friday, the guys who collect garbage on his Cincinnati street on Fridays. And it was a little overwhelming, reported his dad. To the local news station, because I guess nothing more awesome...
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March 22, 2015
The Ten Best Ways To Get Headphones To Fit Your Kid
1. Headphones too big and keep falling off? Come see y Dad.... pic.twitter.com/QXo2tLyd9u— Craig Potter (@CraigLPotter) March 18, 2015 Nos. 2 -10 are doing the same thing, just with a different stuffed animal....
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Uh Oh, NHTSA Fines Graco
NHTSA has fined Graco $10 million for failing to report customer complaints to the government in the run-up to the Jan. 2014 recall of several million car seats. The car seats had defective buckles that were extremely difficult-to-impossible to release....
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March 21, 2015
It Buys A Village
Here is a real estate project that must happen. 1. First is the utterly amazing yet apocalyptic story in the NY Times about kids shopping for their families' seven- and eight-figure real estate. The headline, "When the 13-Year-Old Picks a...
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March 20, 2015
DT Friday Freakout: Breastfeeding Edition
The Daddy Types Friday Freakout is here/back, a collection of freakout-inducing headlines from the worlds of science, politics and parenting, dumped all at once to ruin just your weekend. Sometimes the headline doesn't need changing at all: The longer babies...
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Red Rover, Red Mover
This week was tough on the Big Red Cars That Are Probably Trouble But Really I Wouldn't Mind front. First I spotted this great Range Rover Classic in Camel Trophy livery. Tobacco sponsorships and tearing up rain forests are...
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March 18, 2015
Did Andy Warhol Sign You Or Your Baby?
Andy Warhol was definitely in the famous for being famous phase of his career when he published his memoir, Popism: The Warhol Sixties in 1980. Popism was based on audio tapes Warhol recorded during the 60s and co-written with...
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March 17, 2015
Californians Have 40 Different Words For Extreme
Ever since the state replaced the water it normally serves with Disneyland Measles™, concerned parents in California have begun taking "extreme steps" to keep their kids from getting sick. Extreme steps like not having playdates with unvaccinated kids. And keeping...
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March 13, 2015
ALSO: CAN YOU FIND OUT IF BMW MAKES A STATION WAGON
A handwritten note from Wes Anderson when I was his personal assistant circa 1999: pic.twitter.com/ZUhdALIw6k— Mike Le (@WriterLe) March 12, 2015 The note in the corner of this note Wes Anderson gave his personal assistant in 1999 is basically the...
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March 11, 2015
Damn You, Kutcher!!
I really don't have time for this right now! Just use a bench!...
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March 9, 2015
Plywood Kids Pod By Mihaly Slocombe
Dezeen has pics of a sweet new bedroom addition Melbourne-based architects Mihaly Slocombe made to a low-slung, rammed earth house they built eight years ago in a retired couple's vineyard. Called the Kid Pod, it's "for future grandchildren," which,...
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RIP Sesame Street Animation Pioneer Jeff Hale
There was a time when Sesame Street's classic animation sequences were hard to find, and when finding the details of their creation were even harder. In the early days, Daddy Types spent an inordinate amount of the kid's naptime...
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March 6, 2015
You. You Is A Dad.
This card has nearly a million reblogs on tumblr by now, which makes it virtually impossible to trace. Oh well. Print your own, I guess....
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SPOILER ALERT -- Carroll Spinney In Big Bird Legs
Here is a vintage picture of Muppeteer Carroll Spinney with his Big Bird legs on as he performs Oscar. And now you wonder why you never see Oscar and Big Bird together. [via @gabrielroth] Another Spinney leg shot at...
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March 2, 2015
Smokey Sue Smokes For Two
Guess skymall's going out strong. pic.twitter.com/S6fcuzCjwJ— Mike Levine (@bizmichael) February 24, 2015 Smokey Sue Smokes For Two is designed to teach powerful lessons, including: the harm caused to mothers and their fetuses by smoking during pregnancy. the unsustainability of a...
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