Showing posts with label american architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american architecture. Show all posts
Transportation: Yesterday's Airports of Today
"This is a 1935 model for an underground air terminal. After landing, aircraft would go underground to various levels for passengers, maintenance, and cargo loading. Connections to ground transportation are at the lowest level."
Quote and image from The Smithsonian website - America by Air.
Via BibliOdyssey
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Architecture: Houses of tomorrow
The Palm Springs modern Committee is an admirable organization dedicated to saving threatened historic modernistic houses in the Palm Springs area...
There are lots of nice photos of groovy buildings at PS Modcom - Buildings
More Palm Springs modernism at Vintage Palm Springs Postcards.
The Gobbler
What were they thinking?
Imagine the pitch to the investors:
'It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait - here's the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We'll bill it as a romantic getaway - and call it The Gobbler!'"
The Grooviest Motel in Wisconsin
från The Institute of Official Cheer
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