Vintage shots from days gone by!

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Way over on the left in front of the green seat you can see the steering thingy in case they wanted to turn or go in another direction.

 

Thanks, Twin! We only know what is known, right? Still, a picture is often worth a thousand words!



DinoLand at EXPO '64, new York, thanks to the site Paleo-Future

 

View from the monorail, EXPO 64, New York, thanks to the site Paleo-Future

 

Chrysler called this attraction the "Truck Frame Gazebo."
Huh? Anybody know anything about how it worked???
Amateur snapshot at EXPO 64, new York, thanks to the
site Paleo-Future!

 

Even as these EXPO 64 fairgoers were admiring this NASA space
capsule in 1965, astronaut Ed White may have been making the
first real-life "space walk" out of a capsule very much like it!
Public mania over the "Space Age" was still in high gear and,
by the decade's end, the first human being stepped onto the
surface of the moon! Amateur snapshot, THANKS to the site
Paleo-Future!

 

Well, excuse our tree! Giant tire attraction by U.S. Royal Tires
(later UniRoyal) actually housed a Ferris Wheel during EXPO 64,
New York. After the fair, the Ferris Wheel went to an amusement
park. The giant tire can be seen from the interstate in Allen Park,
a Detroit suburb. Amateur fair snapshot, THANKS to the site
Paleo-Future.

 

a bulldozer dyno!

 

For some reason I always thought the "hardtop convertible" didn't come out untill 1959...I guess I thought wrong.

 

Cool, Bob! But what is it? Slightly resembles Rust Heinz's fast wind-cheater, but this is something ELSE, isn't it?

 

Seems more like something from the pulp, Weird Tales. than
from a fairly mainstream newspaper like the Fresno Bee of April
1934! Kinda looks like ol' Gigantor there has the upper hand
(claw?) on the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz" !!! LOL.
Thanks for this visual retrospective go to a fantastic site called
Paleo-Future!

 

57, 58 and 59

 

It may come as a surprise to many (like me!) that the
monorail idea has been around for a century! Here is an
actual photo of Wiliam H. Boyles' three-mile-long demon-
stration monorail line, in operation in the tide flats near
Seattle, Washington! Holy! 1911??? Though the line cost
only about $3,000 a mile to build (or wood), Boyles could
find no backers for the people-mover in that day. This
amazing photo is THANKS to: the site Paleo-Future, the
Monorail Society and the Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Online Catalogue.


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here is a pic of old amsterdam

 

And if the previous one wasn't amazing enough, let's travel
back a decade earlier, when the Lincoln, Nebraska, Evening
News carried the following item on September 27, 1901 (!).
No one had yet gotten an airplane to actually fly, and horses
could still beat most autos. But a 600-mile-per-hour monorail
is predicted. This -- somewhat fanciful -- account is THANKS
to the amazing site, Paleo Future, to whom I say a sincere
THANK YOU!

 

Cover of the July 1934 Popular Science, thanks to the fab site Paleo-Future

 

The concept, fully illustrated

 

Hugo Gernsbach is remembered as the father of science-fiction
(even though he did not coin the term). With World War I still
raging, in France and Belgium, here's a fanciful vision of future-
minded -- obviously optimistic! -- Gernsbach, August 1918. Note
the clever juxtaposition of a steamer on the river, background,
with the futuristic conveyance in the fore! LOL. This is THANKS
to the fantastic site, Paleo-Future, THANKS!

 

And if that were not fantastical enough, fast-forward to April
1935! (Notice how placid those folks are in this contraption!
LOL) Again, THANKS to the fantastic site, Paleo-Future.

 

First Flight - August 10, 1949 .

Howard Hughs loved it .

 

Thanks for this visual retrospective go to a fantastic site called Paleo-Future!

 

thanks jimi'shemi291.... i just wasted about 2 hours on the paleo web site !!! lol good stuff on there, the 50 s commercials are addictive