From the magazine, we’re told that this trailer, from Holan Engineering from Elwood, Indiana, has two stories and an attic, a plastic-tiled kitchen and bathroom, and a living room with a picture window. The trailer is 8 feet wide by 40 feet long. What they don’t tell us is that this is a mobile home,… Continue reading Two Story Trailer Cutway, 1952
Month: December 2013
Idlewild (JFK) Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, 1952
Originally called Idlewild Airport, it was renamed JFK Airport in 1963, after the President’s assassination. This workman-like, competent but hardly spectacular cutaway illustration by Sloane shows the 11-story so-called “supertower” that allowed air traffic controllers in the early Fifties to track and guide up to 1,000 aircraft a day (real capacity was likely much less).… Continue reading Idlewild (JFK) Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, 1952
Mercury Moll: Mrs. Linda Plannette
We’re barely out of the 1940s–1952, to be exact–and this lovely lady is presaging the Sixties already by wearing cut-off jeans shorts, no doubt called “dungarees” at that time. She’s a missus, too: Mrs. Linda Plannette. Looks like a sunny but cool Spring day in Southern California, judging by the long sleeves. My guess is… Continue reading Mercury Moll: Mrs. Linda Plannette