“Living just out outside of D.C., my wife and I often find ourselves in the district on the weekends, taking our daughter whatever museum is at the top of her list at the given moment,” Blake Patterson reports for Byte Cellar.
“Today we visited the National Building Museum followed by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery,” Patterson reports. “While in the latter, we stumbled upon a limited time exhibit called American Cool.”
Patterson reports, “It is a photo account of a great many cool characters through recent American history, including Madonna, David Byrne, Sam Shepherd, Tom Waits, Paul Newman, Jimi Hendrix… and Steve Jobs.”
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Back in 2010, Peter Orosz reported for Jalopnik, “Two years before even the original Macintosh was introduced, Apple’s then-and-current CEO was pictured for a National Geographic Magazine feature on Silicon Valley, riding a 1966 BMW motorcycle.”
“Twenty-seven years old, sporting long hair, fancy tan boots and no black turtleneck, Jobs is very much a sidebar in Moira Johnston’s piece ‘High Tech, High Risk, and High Life in Silicon Valley,’ published in the October 1982 issue of the magazine, which focuses on the cultural changes the machines then still called microcomputers would bring on the world in general and Silicon Valley in particular,” Orosz reported. “Because of Silicon Valley’s location in the state of California, the article also has pictures of bearded men and hot tubs, which you can study in detail if you instruct your microcomputer to follow the hyperlink to an internet page on the weblog Modern Mechanix, where you can read the whole thing.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It doesn’t get much cooler than that.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]