What is this you ask?

A mural in the entryway to a Barclay Rex building on Wall Street.

The internets, circa 1920. The glorious start of being able to read in a online German newspaper about the ‘splosion in front of your job in New York ten minutes after it happens, subtitled video of cats asking questions of presidential candidates and being able to watch Tim Gunn telling Wendy Pepper not to defending the shoe to him in a Swedish hotel room and of course, making the disappearance of Paris Hilton’s dog worldwide news.

Thanks International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Paris Hilton appreciates all of what you have done for her.

All joking aside, I loved this window into what people in the 1920s and 1930s thought the future would like.

I kind of noticed that this mural kinds of looks like this other iconic symbol of power:

Anyway, here’s the rest of Mr. Lightening Bolts:

Globes cover up his bits. Like I said, different places, different attitudes. Globes here, full frontal male nudity in Scandinavia. Globes covering up the jewels here. Neither is better or worse. These things are just different.