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It s a hot pink summer at theMalibu Barbie Caf茅 in Chicago鈥?an official pop-up done in partnership with Mattel.Over 60,000 tickets have already been sold so far for the pop-ups in Chicago and New York City, and it s fueled by the anticipation surrounding the Barbie movie.Written by indie darlings Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach and starring Oscar nominated actors Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, Barbie depicts the iconic doll with a bit of an existential crisis.The film pays whimsical, dreamy homage to the many eras of the Barbie brand 鈥?to the point where the production used up one company stanley cup s worldwide supply of pink paint.The original teaser for the film depicted Robbie dressed as the original Barbie doll, which debuted more than six decades ago.Created by Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler in 1959, Barbie was a toy trailblazer.B stanley cup efore Barbie, young girls were more likely to be playing with baby dolls 鈥?toys that encouraged them to aspire to raise children.SEE MORE: Barbie is hitting the big screen, but is the movie meant for kids Handler noticed that her young daughter, named Barbara, was interested in womanhood beyond motherhood. And so Barbie was born 鈥?modeling careers as astronauts, CEOs, doctors and presidents.Between the hyper-feminine d茅cor, the immediately recognizable logo and the signature pink plastered throughout, the Malibu Barbie Caf茅 鈥?based on the beach-y Barbie collecti stanley cup on that debuted in 1971 鈥?is like the inside of a toy set.It s iconic, even if you didn t Vhau After surviving a brutal attack, local domestic violence survivor starts nonprofit to help others
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. 鈥?A local teenager is proving age is just a number when it comes to the classics.Jack Armstrong may be 16 years old, but his love for a typing classic shows his old soul.Trips to antique stores with his mom introduced him to the typewriter at a young age. At the age of 12, he received his first one and he was hooked. I think it was Christmas of 2017 when I got my first typewriter and it needed some cleaning and I started cleaning it and I got addicted to that, Armstrong said.Four years and 180 literary piano stanley vattenflaska s later and Armstrong has created a name for himself across the world through his company, Tampa Typewriter Co. I do have some typewriters in a museum in Dubai which Im very proud of, Armstrong said. I am just blown away because I am some 16-year-old schmuck in Florida and theyre like, hey, do you want to repair our ultra-rare typewriter Well ship it to you from New Zealand, from Australia, from all over the world. Armstrong s knack for repairing the stanley water jug retro doesn t stop with typewriters. He s also putting work into another classic. I have a 1972 Volkswagon Beetle that I am in the process of restoring. I am currently building a new engine for it, Armstrong said.At just 16 years old Armstrong has bigger plans for his company. His goal is to keep searching for rare classics and open a br stanley botella ick and mortar.