The Windsor Hotel in Winnipeg Burns Down

Aside September 14, 2023 Markozen.com Buildings, Winnipeg

187 Garry Street was constructed in 1903 and designed as a boarding house by the owner, Charles H. Forrester. In 1910 the building was redesigned as a hotel. After construction was complete the Le Claire Hotel opened with three floors of suites and a small one storey gentlemen’s club attached.

In 1930 the hotel went through a redesign to become The Windsor Hotel, which is the current hotel name. The total costs of the renovation was $100,000 which included extensive renovations to the hotel’s bar and lounge.

By the 1990s the old gentlemen’s bar and lounge had become The Windsor Hotel’s Blues Bar. The small one storey attachment to the hotel would host jazz nights in which local jazz musicians would play for small crowds. By 1994 the Blues Bar became so popular that an addition was required to accommodate the many patrons. The much larger Blues Bar was newly designed with a Garry Street entrance and is decorated with paintings of popular blues artists. The mural on the North elevation of the hotel was painted in 1995 by Joe Mallzar. The image is of the Windsor’s logo. A second prominent painting is on the North elevation of the 1994 Blues Bar. This image depicts Charlie Chaplin as he contemplates continuing his career on stage. Chaplin was a previous customer at the Le Claire hotel in 1913.

The Changing Face Of Mess Demons

Aside September 10, 2023 Markozen.com Paranormal

What possesses them to keep all this stuff?

Old People’s Club

Aside September 8, 2023 Markozen.com Politics

Mitch McConnell freezes up again!

Some Hardcore “Holy Sh@T!” Moments!

Aside September 7, 2023 Markozen.com Monsters, Paranormal

Convicted Murderer Who Escaped Pennsylvania Prison Climbs Like Spider-Man

Aside September 6, 2023 Markozen.com Bizarre, Crime

CNN —

The manhunt continued Wednesday for murderer Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison last week by thwarting newly installed razor wire put in place after another inmate briefly broke out a few months ago, authorities said at a Wednesday news conference.

Cavalcante, 34, who was spotted again in the area Tuesday by a resident, got free from Chester County Prison last Thursday by “crab walking” between two walls, pushing his way through razor wire, running across a roof, scaling another fence, and getting through more razor wire, Chester County Prison Acting Warden Howard Holland told reporters.

Surveillance video from the prison shows the inmate in the exercise yard looking through a window in a door then placing his hands on one wall and his feet on another. He shimmies up the opening and out of view.

Amazing Waterfalls

Aside September 6, 2023 Markozen.com Nature

Seven Sisters Waterfall Norway

Baatara Gorge Waterfall Lebanon

Dettifoss Waterfall Iceland, yes this is the one from the movie Prometheus.

Dietan Waterfall, on the border of China and Vietnam

Paradise in the Grand Canyon, USA

Glacial waterfall in Greenland

Waterfall and isolated beach in Hawaii

Iceland

Train bridge over a waterfall in Letchworth State Park, New York

Migus Mill North Carolina. An aqueduct was built to power a corn mill.

Nepal

Norway

Pearl Waterfall, China

Strange moss waterfall in Romania

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall, Iceland

Tibet

Waterfall of the Gods, Iceland

Zion National Park, Utah

THE ‘RACY STRIPPER’: ‘NAUGHTY’ ADULT NOVELTY TOY FROM 1998

Aside September 5, 2023 Markozen.com Offbeat

Dangerousminds.net

Though it seems like a toy better suited for the 1980s, you know when strippers were as synonymous with heavy metal as a sweet Gibson Flying V, the Racy Stripper doll became a thing in 1998 thanks to a company called Racy Enterprises (or R.C. Inc.)

Billed as Racy Stripper (or Racy: The Naughty Doll), Racy had similar unrealistic proportions as Barbie, and, as I understand it, a carved out hoohah and pink nipples, something her kiddie-toy counterpart was without. As you might expect the 11.5-inch doll came with a few useful accessories, such as thigh-high stockings with a back seam, long black satin gloves, a stripper pole with a heart-shaped platform, a package of mini-100-dollar bills (because I guess this is one classy joint Racy works at), and a cassette labeled “Racy Strip Party” which I presume contains a rendition of Def Leppard’s 1987 stripper anthem, “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” Racy Enterprises produced two different stripper dolls—one with long platinum blonde hair and the other with long brunette hair which can be pretty easily procured out there on various Internet auction sites such as eBay for less than 20 bucks, depending on its condition.

Vintage Mad Magazine Covers

Aside September 5, 2023 Markozen.com Art, Funny

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine. It was widely imitated and influential, affecting satirical media, as well as the cultural landscape of the 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than two million during its 1974 circulation peak. From 1952 until 2018, Mad had published 550 regular issues, as well as hundreds of reprint “Specials”, original-material paperbacks, reprint compilation books and other print projects. The magazine reverted back to 1 with its April 2018 issue.

Mad’s mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is typically the focal point of the magazine’s cover, with his face often replacing that of a celebrity or character who is lampooned within the issue.