Martin Chalakoski
Martin Chalakoski is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Martin Chalakoski:
Guy de Maupassant ate lunch at base of the Eiffel Tower everyday so he’d be spared from looking at it
It took two years to restore Bert Lahr’s 60-pound Cowardly Lion costume, and it sold for $3.1 million
Norway and the Vikings’ churches, built the same way they did their ships
The Doll Family, four dwarf siblings who found success in Hollywood, not only in “The Wizard of Oz” but in another classic, “Freaks”
Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of
Joseph Palmer: The eccentric war veteran who was sent to jail for wearing a beard
“Say kids, what time is it” For 13 years “It’s Howdy Doody Time” Won Hearts
“You’re standing on my foot” A glimpse into the secret of Laurel and Hardy’s success
The eerie decay of Ohio State Reformatory, where Stephen King’s “The Shawshank Redemption” was filmed
“Diabolus in Musica”: How the Devil came into his dream and inspired Giuseppe Tartini to compose the Violin Sonata in G Minor, “The Devil’s Trill”