The FUTURE that Never Arrived

[Veronica Parra]

Still waiting for these to show up in my future:

Although I think I can pass on these two. They look a tad too Freudian, don't they?

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

I want my autogyro! :rage: lol

 

[herringbonekid]

i like that car cruising into the gas station.
though its barely more improbable than many actual cars of the 50s.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Did the great Bruce McCall have anything to do with those illustrations?

 

[Mojave Jack]

Although I think I can pass on these two. They look a tad too Freudian, don't they?

lol That's too much! Thanks, VP!

 

[Baggers]

Not too Freudian to me, but it does look very similiar to the Mars Mission ship painted by Chesley Bonestell (with some input from Willy Ley, if I recall) back in the fifties. I believe it was used in a movie called The Conquest of Space, starring the actor who played trail boss Gil Favor in Rawhide.

Great stuff. It brings back fond memories from my long ago youth.

Cheers!

 

[MrBern]

there was a William Gibson short story about people who wished for that future that never happened. The `30s futura. Lots of mass hysteria of those zeppelin type UFOs.

 

[Lauren]

Oh my. That last one is just frightening.

 

[Big Man]

Well, this didn't miss it by much ...

Still waiting for these to show up in my future:

Although I think I can pass on these two. They look a tad too Freudian, don't they?

 

[Twitch]

I long to be whisked to work in a vacuum tube.....

 

[CharlieH.]

When I was a kid I thought I'd see this sort of thing in the near future... now reality has given me a cold hard slap in the face and I've come to the conclusion that the actual future will be downright ugly. I blame it on plastics.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Well ... if folks who saw THE GRADUATE in 1967 had heeded the advice given to Dustin Hoffman ("One word: plastics!") and actually bought stock in plastics, they would be rich today. Plastics has done very, very well indeed.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Bruce McCall:

http://www.jamesgoodmangallery.com/mccall/pages/exhibframez.html

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Just before they crash into each other.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

The title of that painting is "Autogiro Jousts." Bruce McCall is a bit of a nut.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

I want my autogyro! :rage: lol

Autogiros? you should have been here:
http://www.hofstra.edu/CampusL/Culture/Autogiro/index_Autogiro.cfm


What the well dressed Autogiro designer & pilot wore:

Leaning with arm on wing.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Thanks for the link!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Dr. Charnov's book From Autogiro to Gyroplane is a great book:

http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/Q503.aspx?print=1

An interesting radio show:

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1794.htm

 

[wahine]

I was looking for some other thread were there has been talk of vintage sci-fi films, visions, steampunk and the like but I couldn't find it. So I revived this old thread to show you this:
[video=youtube;dVhZN6wxjSg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVhZN6wxjSg[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Love how those planes fly in such perfect formation in the alternate New York of 1980.