Chapter 18. We Want to Remember a Time When Our Lives Were Not Made of Plastic

Vintage Tomorrows was pretty much done. Byrd and the documentary crew were editing away. Most of the book was written and this was the boys’ last interview. James is driving south to Burning Man and he stops off in Portland to see Brian. Hunkered down to work at a hotel, the two take the opportunity to cap off the book with a phone call to Jake von Slatt.

Jake is a maker extraordinaire. Through the entire Vintage Tomorrows journey, whenever anyone talked about making steampunk things, Jake von Slatt,proprietor of the Steampunk Workshop, was the first name out of their mouths. Bonus for the boys, Jake gave them the artwork for the front and back of this book! Jake’s ...

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