Because We Can Inspiration Stream's blog

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Found on the outskirts of Phoenix, this gem of a Googie sign warmed our hearts. Someday we hope to have the wherewithal to drag this back and mount it to the roof of our office!

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Man just look at this plant. Just look at it! Arizona flora is so crazy and strange and interesting...

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Man oh man, what a beauty. Stuff like this makes us want to launch a side-business just making vintage-looking jukeboxes & stereo cabinets (that have fully digital MP3 guts)! Someday!

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Simultaneously one of the most impressive looking yet least useful computers ever made, we present the Honeywell Kitchen Computer. The premise was you'd input all the food you had in your kitchen, all your favorite recipes too, and then it could tell you want recipe you could make with what you had. However, the input was via binary switches, and the output was blinking lights. Again, in binary. And it cost way more than the entire kitchen, cabinets and all! I don't know if they ever sold a single one, but then only made a few, and this one lives at the wonderful Computer Museum in Mountain View, CA!

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Raccoons!
I'm surprised that they are letting them in the bathrooms already, though not surprised who they're being grouped with.

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New Orleans holds a special place in our hearts, and not just due to the eaves that look a lot like something we'd do.

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From the side of Mr. Jalopy's old water-break dynamometer that came with his shop. Luckiest guy we know!

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Why we aren't converting old buses into Tiki-themed bed and breakfast rooms in the Arizona desert I'll never know. I think it's time for a new business plan!

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Along with Jazz, Hot Rods are one of the few totally American art forms. What's not to be inspired by?

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Look closely and you'll notice.... these are just standard cement blocks placed in a repeating square pattern.
Love it.
It's so crafty looking, almost like it's been hand done, yet looking closely it's incredibly attainable and affordable.

And I'm a sucker for that 60's Googie style....