Robert Klara

Selected Essays & Reviews(click to download and enjoy)

• “When New York City’s Lights All Went Out,” Christian Science Monitor

• “Answer Man,” Navigator

• “Farewell Hotel,” USAirways magazine

• “It’s Time for Preservation on the Wrong Side of the Tracks,” Architecture

Selected History Features

• “Hitler’s car exerts grim fascination even if it just gave the Führer a lift to the airport,” The Guardian

• “The Pipes are Calling,” USAirways magazine

• “Blood Ties,” New Jersey Monthly

• “There’s No Place Like a Name,” New York Daily News

• “No Turning Back,” USAirways magazine

Selected Railroading Features

• “Woolen Wonders,” Classic Trains

• “A Moveable Mansion,” Victorian Homes

• “Doing the Locomotion,” Navigator

• “The Wreck of the Federal,” Passenger Train Journal

• “The View from the Train,” Adweek

Selected Travel & Place Writing

• “Parisian Secret,” USAirways magazine

• “The City at the Nation’s Front Door,” American Heritage

• “Peachy Keen,” American Road

• “The Riviera of Dreams” New Jersey Monthly

• Saltair and “The Carnival of Souls” American Road

• “Waxing Eloquent”: Behind the Scenes at Madame Tussaud’s U.S. Airways Magazine

Robert’s “Perspective” Department in Adweek

• Tiffany’s iconic blue box

• The puzzling case of Erno Rubik’s cube

• How Canada Goose jackets got cool

• The story of the Magic 8 Ball

• How Sony’s Walkman changed music forever

Selected Business Features

• “Something in the Air”: How stores use scent to get you to buy more

• “The Exceptionally Good Taste of Danny Meyer”

• “Who You Calling Gay?”: A history of homoerotic advertising

• “Lucky Chang”: A Q&A with Chef David Chang

• “Colorful, Quirky, Classic”: At home with Jonathan Adler

• “American Aesthetic”: The Shinola story