distressed red wall clocks

Mad about the '60s

Today's cellphone does the same job with a beep, but it can't equal the bed-stand flair of a retro-looking alarm with a black or red, metal or plastic case on legs -- sometimes, a pedestal. Westclox . Wall clock. Yesterday's office clock said the ...

House and Garden Tour celebrates history of Bryan

his grandmother, Grace Norman. The home has its original red oak floors, and has local antique artwork, including a painting of Bryan's distant uncle of Stephen F. Austin that first hung in The First National Bank of Bryan. Inside the home ...

The Most Beautiful Animal You'll Never See

The head of our expedition, conservation biologist William Robichaud, the only other westerner in our group of 14, told me that, unless a distressed American pilot had parachuted into the sprawling watershed that lay before us during the Vietnam War ...

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And, early each morning, it was his habit to step outside and pee on a wall, as blithely as you please. Everybody knew him, because his ritual was so unvarying that he served as a clock; the broken cadence of his footsteps and his cough were the first ...

Global War Against Nature: 100 Elephants Killed Each Day in Illegal Ivory Trade

The head of our expedition, conservation biologist William Robichaud, the only other westerner in our group of 14, told me that, unless a distressed American pilot had parachuted into the sprawling watershed that lay before us during the Vietnam War ...

Pages from the past

There is a wall of romance, there are piles of old National Geographics and a paperback of The Da Vinci Code is just $4. I nearly buy Cityscapes and Capital: The Politics of Urban Development by Michael A Pagano. It seems so relevant. Church Corner is ...

The Most Beautiful Animal You've Never Seen

The head of our expedition, conservation biologist William Robichaud, the only other Westerner in our group of fourteen, told me that, unless a distressed American pilot had parachuted into the sprawling watershed that lay before us during the Vietnam ...

Mad about the '60s

The rotary-dial wall phone dates ... an actual alarm clock. He made sure to wind it the night before. Today's cellphone does the same job with a beep, but it can't equal the bed-stand flair of a retro-looking alarm with a black or red, metal or plastic ...