Another pushbutton development will be projection of microfilm books on the ceiling or wall in large type. – 1959 prediction from the Sunday comic strip "Closer Than We Think" for the future of media
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Commuters reading their newspapers on a train in Philadelphia circa 1955 — decades before the invention of that grossly antisocial device: the smartphone.
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An unopened bottle of beer recovered from the wreckage of the Hindenburg is up for auction. Again. The 1937 bottle of Lowenbrau sold for over $18,000 back in 2009. The bottle has fire damage, but since the airship had a smoking room, I suppose that could’ve happened before it crashed.
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"Miss Futurama," Betty Crain of Indiana, is seen wearing a transparent outfit made of "synthetic glass," otherwise known as plastic. She’s presenting a streamlined car to Harvey Gibson, chairman of the board of the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair.
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Illustrated by Richard Arbib in 1972, this enormous "leisure-mobile" of the future was called the GM Bonanza. It looks like it wouldn’t have done very well during the 1970’s oil crisis. Or at any time when fuel is more than $.03 per gallon, really. [Image scanned from the 2006 book Driving Through Futures Past.]
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Did you know that the notoriously flammable Hindenburg airship had a smoking room? Passengers could only get to it through an airlock door. But yes, the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg had a special room where people could set sticks of tobacco on fire. (1937)
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