Looking inside the Popular Mechanics 1935 “Flying Boat”: Kitchen Welsh rarebit coming right up. Note the ladder leading up to the wing. Bar The cover is sharp and crystal-clear. It’s my scanner that blurred the picture. A real-life bartender whipping up a gin gimlet for a guy in a suit. Sleeping Quarters Except for those… Continue reading Closeup of Flying Boat (Generic) Cutaway, 1935
Month: April 2009
Flying Boat (Generic) Cutaway, 1935
I reproduce this Popular Mechanics cover of April 1935 in all of its ball-throbbing glory–because that is the only way to describe the muscularity of 1930s popular journalism. There is nothing I don’t like about this cover. I love the orange and blue contrast, the NRA Code logo in the bottom left, the typography, and… Continue reading Flying Boat (Generic) Cutaway, 1935
Super-Ultra Miniature Hybrid Car
What the hell isn’t wonderful about Tracey Ullman? Below, her miniature hybrid car from Tracey Ullman: State of the Union.
Tramway
Sky buckets, gondolas, sky-trams–technically, aerial tramways–are the most visible invisible transport around. Contrast the Disneyland Matterhorn tramway from the 1950s… With the real aerial tramway at Zermatt, Switzerland–also the Matterhorn…
Fake Iraq
Fake Iraq, by Maria Schriber.