Life, futurism, and fear from that era (will be american-focused but other countries welcome)

Coolest thread on /hr/ at the moment, keep going

>>5016260
Kek... I actually have that magazine on a shelf here.

>>5016773
Thanks
>>5016847

>>5017418
Nowadays AI can produce such things in a millisecond, especially when you don't want it to. But back then they needed to put in the legwork!

>>5017418
It's hard to imagine seeing that many people in a theater, let alone with masks

>>5018942

>>5019931
I love everything about this -- the car, the logos, the circles, the sign shapes. A very nice microcosm of '60s design.

Also known as the Great American Dream

Also this

>>5016259

Howdy Doody is creepy

>>5025254
stuff of nightmares

>>5033609

>>5034483

What a great thread
I have a ton of images

>>5036588
thank you!

>>5038110
I never knew they had so many flavors of "UNIVAC", I always thought it was the one model. I mean it makes sense they made other computers, of course, just didn't know they called all of those Univac too. They had them all the way into the 1980s! Wild.

>>5038180
Yup, I get the feeling based on the name... like ENIAC

comfy thread

>>5016251
Cool ad but at the same time so bizarre. Like advertising Canadian whisky with the concept of using atomic power to grow stuff in the American desert

>>5040559
Still makes more sense than a Progressive ad.

>>5016253
I want to live in that house

>>5036593
Does anybody know if the flame thing was real? (coming out of the top)... I never knew that was a feature of the space needle

>>5040911
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=space+needle+flame

>>5040563
rent free

>>5040170
>me at 20: man i hope im NEVER that guy
>me at 30: god i wish i was that guy...

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>>5018942
>>5016248 (OP)
God, imagine if America had actually invested the unbelievable economic and industrial power it had at the time to build this sort of high speed rail and atomic power generation infrastructure.

Instead, the powers of the time allowed themselves to be thoroughly corrupted by corporate petroleum and automotive interests. It disgusts me.

>>5026825
That one is great!

>>5017417

That's the GM Tech Center in Warren MI, I grew up less than a mile away and my dad worked there for 20 years.

>>5031926
>radio shack
Those were the days

>>5036567
I live less than 100 miles from this. I also have 3 testicles.

>>5054566
No thank you can be used by terrorist (or some retard) to make 9/11 2.0 Fuck that.

>>5062958
How exactly can a train be used to make the next 9/11? It's literally traveling on rails.

>>5063099
I think he was referring to that last image about the Atomic Age. But ignore him, he's clearly ESL or underaged.

>>5054566
>atomic powered trains driven by niggers
yeah I can't see a problem with this, great idea 10/10

>>5063099
Hijack the train plant bomb blow up near a lot of people. Dude think use your brain

>>5063188
You don't need a train for that.

>>5016250
kino

>>5017417
>aw cmon, thats ai slop, ur not fooling anyone
kek

>>5018942
hyperloop grift dates far back huh

>>5020803
>no browns
you missed the most important detail

>>5021978
>the front fell off

>>5016261
and still worked fine. we are making everything needlessly complicated today

>>5061617
let me know if you see one

>>5017416
packards were good cars

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>>5077098
they built all the stuff in that photo in 2 years

>>5063187
>>5063188

Did you drop out at 11? Is your dad your grandpa as well?
>The power is from a Power Plant.
>The train uses the cheap ass electricity.

The Captcha should be a basic comprehension. test

>>5041058
Wtf are those guys doing? Spraying pesticide on the pink blobs?

>>5084507
They got the facetime right. If only we had the auto-dressing bots