History on Wheels

Reflections on the heritage industry, automobility, and the making of North America's past(s)

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Yamaha's retro bike

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Now that I seem to have killed the battery in my e-bike by letting it drain down to zero (something that lithium ion batteries apparently do...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Heritage wheels: Anything but old

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I've been reading an article by Bernhard Rieger on the Volkswagen Beetle* this evening as I'm prepping for tomorrow's session of...
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Living history at the motor court

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I posted a piece on the NCPH "Off the Wall" blog last week about the phenomenon of "ubiquitous display" that we're ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Highway heritage vs. the fossil fuel industry

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As a counter-balance to the purely celebratory uses of automotive heritage that I wrote about in my last post , here's an example of usi...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Indy at 100

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I haven't posted for a while, but couldn't let Memorial Day weekend go by without noting the centennial of the Indianapolis 500. S...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

If Ken Burns made car ads

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Car ads are like little zeitgeist-meters. They’re amazingly responsive to all kinds of social anxieties, which they instantly repackage in ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

High fuel prices = instant heritage?

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In the face of rising fuel prices, Cars.com , a joint venture of several big media companies, has revived an earlier feature, the " Ga...
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