Afflictor: Wishing everyone happy holidays since 2009. (Image by Huhu Uet.)
- Santa gets a job on Wall Street, Christmas gets cancelled.
- Shocker: The Times’ “Vows” column features newlyweds who are doing a horse.
- Classic DVDs: Rollerball (1975) + The Stepford Wives (1975).
- Featured Videos: First singing computer (1961) + Lucan TV program (1977-78) + The Devil’s Rain trailer (1975) + Touch-tone telephone ad (1971) + Futuristic homes (1950s).
- Old Print Articles: California hunter makes odd chairs for U.S. Presidents (1885) + Pioneering photojournalist Mathew Brady dies in poverty (1894) + Three-year-old Brooklyn boy swallows a button (1897).
- Classic Photos: Newsies sell papers on the Brooklyn Bridge (1902) + The Great New York-To-Paris Auto Race (1908).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: North Face jacket for Luke Skywalker + Need Big Mac sauce for Christmas gift + 700 barf bags for sale + Really, really need an exterminator.
- New York City invents the modern idea of Christmas in the 1800s.
- Miles Davis opines on prejudice in 1962.
- St. Clair McKelway profiles an unlikely counterfeiter (1949).
- Why Coney Island became a freak show.
- Science predictions that didn’t pan out.
- Theoretical physicists solve urban problems.
- Shinchi Maruyama is a “liquids sculptor
- Driver-less auto-cars from the 1950s.
- American auto deaths decrease dramatically.
- Gleaned: Graphic & Linhof Press Camera Guide (1969).
- Miscellaneous Media: Postcard to Mrs. Ethel Brandwein (1959) + Postcard to Billy Brandwein (1959).
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