
“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.” – Jimmy Buffett
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, whose laid-back, good-humored, often tropically-themed brand of country-laced pop spawned a lucrative one-man business empire, died Friday. He was 76. Buffett’s death

The forgotten art of hitchhiking — and why it disappeared
In 1950, Pete Koltnow had just graduated from college and needed to get from New York to Yuma, Arizona, where he was due to start

Stay out of the Monfort lane!
There’s a reason the left lane is called the Monfort Lane. Named after the Monfort meat company of Greeley, Colorado, they had big strapper trucks

The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream was a wild night featuring Pink Floyd, John Lennon, and Jimi Hendrix
We’re dipping into the Far Out Magazine vault to look back at one of the wildest nights in British rock history as attendees like John

The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something

Remembering Western Pancake House
After an initial false start in opening a restaurant – a diner called Woodhaven, which he launched near his home in Big Darby Creek –

Suzuki Jimny with a Honda Gold Wing Flat-Four
This Suzuki LJ20 (Jimny) was for sale on eBay in Harriman, Tennessee with a starting bid of $800. These came from the factory with a

The same three thousand or so people were still living the same small-town life
“This town was caught in a perpetual state of stagnation. The same three thousand or so people were still living the same small-town life. They

Sinclair Microvision MTV1B in 1966
After its abortive launch in 1966, the Sinclair Microvision miniature television disappeared into Sinclair’s development laboratory for another decade before finally making it to the

23 Pictures That Show Just How Far Out Hippies Really Were
A hippie sleeps stretched across the trunks of two parked cars at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, New York, in 1969. For

The Story Behind Student Prince Beer
Yesterday I posted the story behind Student Prince, the beer (from Columbia Brewery in Washington State) and the American silent film of the same name

Ohio’s Fighting Buckeyes: The 37th Infantry Division
Few outfits in the Pacific have seen more of the enemy, and killed more of the enemy, than Ohio’s Fighting Buckeyes. From the time in