Café Museum

The coffee-houses of Vienna are justly famous. Seated at your favorite table, surrounded by friends and acquaintances, with the great newspapers of the world hanging from nearby racks, you may, for the price of a cup of coffee, while away the hours with good conversation and the world’s learning.

The Café Museum, Dorotheergasse 6 in the city center, was the Lindners’ café of choice. Designed by Adolf Loos, it had a clean and unornamented design, with bentwood chairs by Thonet and marble tables. Until April 1939 it was our home away from home.

While I cannot pour you a nice cup of coffee, cocoa, or tea from a spigot on your monitor, I can offer you links to some of the classes I teach, topics on which I work, and aspects of cultural history that reflect the heritages of Vienna, Austria, imperial capital, and Stockton, California, asparagus capital.

Links to courses.

• History 301. The Discovery of the Universe.
• History 396:003. The Ends of the Earth in History and Cinema.
• History 197:002.  Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, 1890-1935.
• History 335. The Early Ottoman Enterprise.

Links to course topics.

Links to scholarship.

• The Harvard Books on Astronomy
• Lecture on the Harvard Books on Astronomy
• Lecture on Goudsmit, Heisenberg, and Bohr

Links to the history of astronomy.

• The Great Debate between Heber D. Curtis and Harlow Shapley.
• Historians of astronomy.
• Professor Joseph Tenn’s home page, with copious links, many to his own works.

Links to cultural history.

Links to the Carson Pass (Stockton Municipal Summer Camp).

• Silver Lake views.
• Oregon-California Trails Association, California-Nevada chapter.

Music links.

• Internet Cello Society.

Radio links.

• The Goon Show, with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers.
• Red Blanchard. Get a jug of Renon Bread.

Bob Bailey as the insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account,
"Yours truly, Johnny Dollar."