Susanna

26/08/2026

01/08/2026

Food cart!

17/06/2026

I will gladly take credit for the sunshine and 70s today and tomorrow. ☀️

17/06/2026

Gimbels was one of those old department store names that felt bigger than shopping. It began in the 1840s with Adam Gimbel, a German Jewish immigrant who built a small dry goods business into one of America’s great retail empires. By the late 1800s and early 1900s, Gimbels had become a giant, especially in cities like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York, and Milwaukee. In Philadelphia, the store at 9th and Market became a downtown landmark, growing so large that it once filled an entire city block and stood as one of the grandest department stores in the country. Before malls and online carts, Gimbels was where people went for clothes, gifts, toys, holiday windows, lunch counters, escalators, perfume counters, and that feeling that a trip downtown was an event.

Its fall came the way it did for so many classic department stores: changing shopping habits, suburban malls, corporate ownership, competition, and a retail world that stopped rewarding the big old downtown palace. By the mid-1980s, Gimbels was closing, and with it went a whole era of polished floors, crowded elevators, Christmas displays, careful salesclerks, and parents saying, “Stay close, don’t touch anything.” For a lot of people, Gimbels is not just remembered as a store. It is remembered as a smell, a sound, a day out with family, a bag carried through the city, and a place where the holidays felt official the moment you walked through the doors.

23/05/2026

Quando Jennifer Batten fece il provino per diventare la chitarrista del tour "Bad" di Michael Jackson, non sapeva nemmeno per chi stesse suonando. Il provino era completamente anonimo: i candidati ricevettero solo una videocassetta con canzoni di Michael e l’istruzione di registrarsi mentre le suonavano.
Jennifer, con il suo stile unico e il look punk (capelli biondi sparati e abbigliamento vistoso), colpì subito i responsabili, tanto che Michael stesso scelse personalmente il suo video. Scoprì di aver vinto solo dopo essere stata contattata da uno dei produttori — e non riuscì a credere di essere stata scelta per accompagnare il Re del Pop nel suo tour mondiale!

21/05/2026

Bruce & Nora
Colosseo, Roma 🏟
Maggio, 1972 📸