yes, and these were great education tools. Schools have really short serviced kids the past 30 to 40 years by not including them, the Great American Story!
It's really adorable how the narrator speaks with such pride about "modern" technology! We should remember, that people will be looking back on us as primitive and backwards. (If we survive.)
It was certainly a beautifully styled, great looking vehicle, probably the best looking Chevy, imho. As a '60s kid, I remember a neighbour with a '59 El Camino...so cool, even today. Also when I was a kid, playing on the sand at Sauble Beach on Georgian Bay, I would dig down into the deep wet sand and form out a car's interior with seats, dash and doors with sticks and pieplates for my steering wheel and shifters.
This is amazing for the usual reasons, but also for the showcase of the Sage computer, one of the first to have a display screen. That is incalculably important to computer history, and IMMENSELY interesting.
Yeah, the IBM Q-7 was an impressive machine and the SAGE system was groundbreaking for networking in its use of 110 baud modems to connect radar stations and airbases to the Direction Centers and Combat Centers. The piece about the B-52 computer is not less important in my eyes. The 20ish Q-7 would be more or less replaced by 30ish Boeing E-3 AWACS.
By 1980, much of this futuristic "Populuxe" design... seemed hopelessly out-of-date. But at least it was bold, confident and optimistic... not generic or boring.
I own a beautiful 16mm IB Tech print of “American Look”. This, along side “Magic Highway USA”, and my John Sutherland films, are my favorite films I own.
There was iodine, mercurochrome (had mercury in it!) things you could overdose on like sleeping pills, "diet pills" (amphetamines) maybe even a bottle of paregoric, which had opium in it. Good times.
Just watched a bad old 70s movie set in and about a fictional supersonic passenger service. Similar to the Airport disaster movies. SST: Death Flight. "On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu on-board."
'The American Look' is without doubt - at least in my opinion - the greatest industrial film of the Populuxe/Googie/Ray Gun gothic period [Iike using 'Populuxe' but I should point out that in respect to Thomas Hine, who coined the term, it has never been intended to stand for a particular design aestheitic but for a particular sensibility ABOUT design aesthetics in consumer objects in the post-war Pre-Johnson period.]; it is a film one greets with awe because it is so formally beautiful, it nearly single handedly invents the industrial film as as 'artwork'. To dismiss it with patronizing hindsight is to miss the point: there is nothing in it to dismiss since it so seduces the viewer with its power; ironic detachment collapses into cynical cant. One stays with it because it so reaches into one's sense of longing for 'the beautiful dreamworld' that it it is a magus, a mesmerist, convincing us to see and feel what can only be in the intangible realm of the ideal.
At 7:25 WHY!? WHY!? OH, WHY!? Why would ANYONE need a "Poison shelf " in their medicine cabinet??? If I were her husband, I would be more than a little concerned that there is a shelf, labeled with big red letters, "POISON". "Ah . . . honey . . . I think there is something that we need to talk about."
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We now know that monorails that GE was considering at the time of this film are some of the most costly forms of public transportation. It is cheaper to redevelop areas to be serviced by light rail or even a subway system.
Honey, the echo from all this hard surfaced plexiglass is giving me a headache. Do we have something I can take for it? Yes dear, in the plexiglass medicine cabinet on the plexiglass shelf with the plexiglass sign marked poison.
Exciting new experience - computer control is comforting… plastic plexiglas wears so well too… More stylists and data processing protecting the future of America !
I had a 1959 Impala Sport Coupe decades ago in Roman red. Only those equipped with the 348 engine (mine was) had the crossed flags emblem shown at 15:55 .
@@TobyLawnjockey I don't know of anyone who ever referred to an Impala as a 'sports car'. It was, however, quite powerful with the original 348 and more so when I replaced it with a Hipo 409. With its size and 'one legged' trailing bar rear suspension it was, however, the antithesis of a 'sports car'. If you're not of the 'floating ride' land yacht generation the appeal would be hard to explain. If you've owned one, you know. They were powerful, comfortable, had enough glass for a public aquarium, one could serve a full course dinner on the dashboard and bring five friends to the drive ins (along with a few in the trunk).
Is it true that this model had some issues with rear end traction sometimes, due to the tailfins causing "lift" at certain conditions? I'm almost sure that I've read something about it.
@@0neIntangible It wasn't the fins, it was the rear suspension that had one trailing arm affixed to the right side of the axle with none on the left. The car behaved differently on right turns than on left,.
@@-oiiio-3993 Thank you for clearing that up. I was thinking that because of the aerodynamics of the fin (wing), design at the rear, that was actually causing lift under certain speeds and wind conditions. It was certainly a beatifully styled, great looking vehicle, probably the best looking Chevy, imho. As a '60s kid, I remember a neighbour with a '59 El Camino...so cool, even today. Also when I was a kid, playing on the sand at Sauble Beach on Georgian Bay, I would dig down into the deep wet sand and form out a car's interior with seats, dash and doors with sticks and pieplates for my steering wheel and shifters.
@@0neIntangible I was born when the U.S. flag had 49 stars. My Mom had a friend way back who drove a black '59 flat top Impala. The next door neighbor had a '56 T-Bird, I remember when our family car was a '55 Olds Holiday and Dad drove a new Corvair. Remember when Hot Wheels came out?
back in the 60's when we were told by the 20th century we will have flying cars that run on nuclear power and to fuel it you only need a single chunk of fuel once every 20 years god were they wrong. I remember the films vividly back in the 60's we all wanted our flying cars and I still do damn it I was robbed.
"What can be done about this problem?" (Ground travel delays to airports) Speaking from 2022, nothing apparently. "Dammit, where's my flying car?" The design of the 1959 Chevy Impala. Great attention to styling details, but seatbelts; and only lap belts at that, were optional.
Didn't the Town of Springfield explore the monorail concept a while back and found it unsatisfactory? Mainly due to inept operation as I recall. One guy who worked on the monorail went on to design a car with his rich brother. Unfortunately it was a bit of a disaster.
20:18 That's the NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo ship. It was built as part of the US Government's Atoms for Peace program. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah (Edit: technically that shot is of a model of the Savannah)
I walked her decks when she was on display at Patriots Point. I admired a model of it as a child. It was satisfying to experience her directly decades later.
@@workingtheworld68 despite the cold aesthetic of a lot of Soviet apartment blocks, they are usually pretty well designed… to maximize space, heat and light, while often providing parks/green spaces/parking between the blocks… which are usually designed to include mass public transport lines. Soviet architecture/urban planning certainly required skilled designers.
Ahh, the “American Look” starting on 10:48 , in particular, the architecture and art depicted, borrows heavily from the European modern movement of art, architecture and style from decades before this was filmed. The automobile futurism is heavily influenced by the advancements in aviation and aerospace creating form and line that depicts movement while being static. This influence in design was incorporated in modern design decades earlier as well, both in the United States and abroad.
After seeing the excesses of minimalism, I have less respect for architects' egos than I once did. Their scourge will be with us and future generations for years to come.
In Memphis, we had a mayor back in the 1990's who wanted to transport airline passengers to Downtown on overhead-wired trolley cars. He proposed that the trolley line would revitalize a poverty-stricken area of the city. It was never implemented.
plexiglass with plexiglass and plexiglass with lined plexiglass and glas made of plexi with plexiglass that is curved with plexiglass so you can see the plexiglass.
I'm so enthusiastic about creative imagination and I'm so frustrated I was born and raised in a third world country and never had the chance to be part of the future
AEROTRAIN, at right center, was invented in 1955 by the ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS, (E.M.D.: G.M.) in LA Grange, Illinois, west of Chicago, and famous for the diesel locomotives from 1937 to the later 1940s models like the F7A (B-B), and E7A (A1A-A1A) for new Streamliner passenger express trains that ran up to 117 M.P.H.!!!!! And GP7(B-B) and SD7(C-C) for freight trains. And the SW-7 (B-B) Switchers for switching freight yards and factories. But the AEROTRAIN was technically the unique "L.W.T.-12" for "Light Weight Train 1200 Horse power" with the "B-1" with only the front 4 wheels powered. Thus it was unbalanced because the weight of the heavy diesel engine in back was carried on only the 2 back wheels. But they should have had another 4 wheel BLOMBERG frame or a Flexcoil like the front set. Thus the diesel was Underpowered and frequently was helped by other diesels. Then the New coaches were actually based upon the G.M. city bus, and with suspension by air bags instead of metal springs. But frequently the airbags lost pressure which lead to an extremely rough ride with the wheels banging against the rail joints. But there were some innovative features like the angular windows, and H.E.P. power for lights, heating, and air conditioning that were featured 30 years later on AMFLEET and subways. Plus under floor baggage storage. Plus a rearward facing Obversation car with 2 tail fins that emulated the 1950s auto styling. The 2 AEROTRAINS had 10 coaches carrying 40 people each for a total of 400. The AEROTRAINS toured around the u.s.a. on the N.Y.C. P.R.R. around Horseshoe Curve. And U.P. from L.A. to Las Vegas. through Cajon Pass. But due to the combinations of many problems during the 2 year tour. In 1958 they were sold to the ROCK ISLAND RR. And used in Chicago Commuter service Westward to Joliet. But in 1966 they were retired and donated to 2 rail museums in the Midwest. Diesel 2 and 2 coaches were donated to THE NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the coaches still have decals from when it was used on the PENNSY. PLUS...the 2 coaches were used on the NRRM tourist train that runs around a small circular track. And the NRRM used the small 20 tonner PLYMOUTH industrial switcher Number 702 from W.P.S., but after 702 broke down in 1987 it just sat alone until 1997 when a different manager who was Not a railroader nor modelers had it scrapped and destroyed. And ever since 2001 the AEROTRAIN 2 and 2 coaches is parked inside the McCormick Pavillion on Track 1 but trapped inside when the switch was ripped out and changed over to the Outside North side display track. But then again Diesel 3 and 2 bus coaches were also donated to Saint Louis, Missouri and the National Museum of Transportation. Maybe, Hopefully, Someday, 1 of the LWT12 Diesels can be rebuilt, and the 4 coaches, and go to the different rail museums around the U.S.A. to run short excursions. THUS: This rebuilding could be accomplished in the next 3 Years. The AEROTRAIN 70TH ANNIVERSARY WILL HAPPEN VERY SOON IN 3 YEARS IN 2025 A.D. PLEASE, Contact me on my Facebook page with the heading "AEROTRAIN 70 IN 2025" , OK!! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!! ALL ABOARD!! HIGHBALL, AEROTRAIN!!-! GOD BLESS THE U.S.A 🇺🇸!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN 🙏. BY: Steven Solway, Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.A.!!!!! U.S. Mail Address: 811 Bader Street. Apartment B. Zip: 54302. ADVISORY: THIS CURRENTLY A CONCEPT ONLY!!!!! THUSLY: IT IS NOT RECOGNIZED, NOR AUTHORIZED BY NEITHER THE N.R.R.M., NOR THE N.M.O.T. DO NOT!!! CONTACT THEM FOR ANYTHING WHAT-SO-EVER!!!!! HEED MY WARNING!!!!! Thank you from Steven Solway, alone and solo, for all your support. God Bless the U.S.A.!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN 🙏.
Amazing how America got travel SO wrong! If you fly into Japan, you can quickly get to any city from the trains near the major airports. If only America invested in railways, traffic would not be so bad. Also, how is it that america is still using old fashion toilets and video door bells are still not common?
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"The most glamorous plastic of all" is a phrase I didn't ever expect to hear.
coated in lead and radium for your comfort
Plexiglass came into its own during the pandemic.
I thought it was Saran Wrap.
@@donkeyslayer9879 what does those things mean
@@EXPLORER-hq1us Look it up.
Plexiglass! Step into your moment!
Cracking up
Plexiglass warning label for the poison shelf is an impressive touch
I always like to store my Posion right above my toothbrush and Combs a label would help.
@@IAmNoeyes hahahah you almost made me squirt tea through my nose.
@@abundantYOUniverse happy my sarcasm helped put a smile on your face :)
That was my thought exactly given the whole medicine cabinet is Filled with Poisons that do more harm than good. Thanks BIG PHARMA...
Plexiglass future with not an E-reader in sight.
They used to show us films like this in elementary and junior high school back in the 60s, GE, Dupont, IBM, HP, Etc...
yes, and these were great education tools. Schools have really short serviced kids the past 30 to 40 years by not including them, the Great American Story!
It's really adorable how the narrator speaks with such pride about "modern" technology! We should remember, that people will be looking back on us as primitive and backwards.
(If we survive.)
People who had supersonic airliners and manned missions to land on the Moon could look forwards and think much the same.
If we don't survive, we will be looked back on as Atlantis.
People think that now!
they are really just ads
i feel like people will look back on the 21st century similarly to how we look at the reign of caligula
with horror and disgust
The 1959 Impala (cat eye) design video was fascinating. One of the most lovely vintage cars in my opinion.
My dad had the Nomad version...gave it to my sister as a wedding present, darn it...
It was certainly a beautifully styled, great looking vehicle, probably the best looking Chevy, imho. As a '60s kid, I remember a neighbour with a '59 El Camino...so cool, even today.
Also when I was a kid, playing on the sand at Sauble Beach on Georgian Bay, I would dig down into the deep wet sand and form out a car's interior with seats, dash and doors with sticks and pieplates for my steering wheel and shifters.
I'm partial to the 1958 Impala.
I totally agree!!!
Love these old films like this.
These were all marketing films from companies selling product to manufacturers, hoping manufacturers would adopt it.
This is amazing for the usual reasons, but also for the showcase of the Sage computer, one of the first to have a display screen. That is incalculably important to computer history, and IMMENSELY interesting.
Yeah, the IBM Q-7 was an impressive machine and the SAGE system was groundbreaking for networking in its use of 110 baud modems to connect radar stations and airbases to the Direction Centers and Combat Centers. The piece about the B-52 computer is not less important in my eyes. The 20ish Q-7 would be more or less replaced by 30ish Boeing E-3 AWACS.
How nice of them to house SAGE in one compact building for convenient destruction with just one missile.
By 1980, much of this futuristic "Populuxe" design... seemed hopelessly out-of-date. But at least it was bold, confident and optimistic... not generic or boring.
Kind of like how everything filmed in the 80s looked old in the 00s
Fuck that I want a automatic kitchen just not "web controlled "
Actually not everything is out-of-date, that locomotive in the thumbnail is still quite feasible.
If your entire house was plexiglass, you could just turn the hose on it to clean it.
Make sure the cat was put out first.
@@Stevie-J I have both a pressure washer and a ride-on mower and you are correct on both points :)
I own a beautiful 16mm IB Tech print of “American Look”. This, along side “Magic Highway USA”, and my John Sutherland films, are my favorite films I own.
The “poison” shelf, gotta love it!
Wow the future looks great! I can't wait!
Thinking is the best way to travel.
Nice play on the "Moody Blues"!!!👍😎
@@silversurfer3202
You got it right! 🎯
From In Search of the Lost Chord
I was always impressed with the people who can form and make a full size car out of clay. I guess that's a lost art in today's auto styling.
Full-size models are still made, but using 5-axis CNC mills.
@@Edyth_Hedd Thanks Edith for the info.
Some still do the car out of clay. I think the big 3 still have the ability if I'm not mistaken.
1959 Impala was a strangely beautiful automobile
Cateye brake lights
More beautiful was the 1959 Buick Electra coupe and convertible
You could play bar billiards on the bootlid.
I love how it's just casually expected that you are going to keep poisons in your cosmetics cabinet.
There was iodine, mercurochrome (had mercury in it!) things you could overdose on like sleeping pills, "diet pills" (amphetamines) maybe even a bottle of paregoric, which had opium in it. Good times.
Just watched a bad old 70s movie set in and about a fictional supersonic passenger service. Similar to the Airport disaster movies. SST: Death Flight. "On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu on-board."
Is the deadly flu called Covid-19?
So much optimism!
I miss that.
*Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!*
(But it's more of a Shelbyville idea.)
Take a drink every time you hear the word _plexiglass_
You Guys rock. You're right too! I have to go to sleep earlier tonight, and as if RIGHT ON CUE, there you were! Thanks, keep up the good work.
somebody was really trying to sell plexiglass lol
Ah, the slumber wing, I look forward to it!
Plexiglass, plexiglass, the modern home will be filled with it, well that didn't age too well. LOL 😂
'The American Look' is without doubt - at least in my opinion - the greatest industrial film of the Populuxe/Googie/Ray Gun gothic period [Iike using 'Populuxe' but I should point out that in respect to Thomas Hine, who coined the term, it has never been intended to stand for a particular design aestheitic but for a particular sensibility ABOUT design aesthetics in consumer objects in the post-war Pre-Johnson period.]; it is a film one greets with awe because it is so formally beautiful, it nearly single handedly invents the industrial film as as 'artwork'. To dismiss it with patronizing hindsight is to miss the point: there is nothing in it to dismiss since it so seduces the viewer with its power; ironic detachment collapses into cynical cant. One stays with it because it so reaches into one's sense of longing for 'the beautiful dreamworld' that it it is a magus, a mesmerist, convincing us to see and feel what can only be in the intangible realm of the ideal.
At 7:25
WHY!? WHY!? OH, WHY!?
Why would ANYONE need a "Poison shelf " in their medicine cabinet???
If I were her husband, I would be more than a little concerned that there is a shelf, labeled with big red letters, "POISON".
"Ah . . . honey . . . I think there is something that we need to talk about."
Seriously loving this channel. You deserve way more subs than you currently have. Just discovered you recently and can't get enough of this. Keep up the good work and take care!
So, ... I need a safe space to store all my poisons ( um, guess I've been doing it wrong )
We now know that monorails that GE was considering at the time of this film are some of the most costly forms of public transportation. It is cheaper to redevelop areas to be serviced by light rail or even a subway system.
In other words, like every other train in existence.
How else were we going to whisk Mr. Businessman of tomorrow from the CBD to the airport so he can get on the SST and sonic boom his way across the US?
Not as cheap as making telecommuting prominent.
The future is not what it used to be
Honey, the echo from all this hard surfaced plexiglass is giving me a headache. Do we have something I can take for it? Yes dear, in the plexiglass medicine cabinet on the plexiglass shelf with the plexiglass sign marked poison.
Exciting new experience - computer control is comforting… plastic plexiglas wears so well too…
More stylists and data processing protecting the future of America !
I never realized I was missing so much Plexiglass in my life.
Can’t help but think of Simpson’s monorail episode -
This videos hype up everything.
More of the future we didn’t get. Somewhere there is a timeline where all this and more happened the way it was supposed to unfold.
Somebody really wailed on that set of pastels!
Yep!!! 😆😆😆😆🌵👵🐺🖖
7:23 oh thank god I really do need a separate shelf for my poison
I had a 1959 Impala Sport Coupe decades ago in Roman red.
Only those equipped with the 348 engine (mine was) had the crossed flags emblem shown at 15:55 .
@@TobyLawnjockey I don't know of anyone who ever referred to an Impala as a 'sports car'.
It was, however, quite powerful with the original 348 and more so when I replaced it with a Hipo 409.
With its size and 'one legged' trailing bar rear suspension it was, however, the antithesis of a 'sports car'.
If you're not of the 'floating ride' land yacht generation the appeal would be hard to explain. If you've owned one, you know.
They were powerful, comfortable, had enough glass for a public aquarium, one could serve a full course dinner on the dashboard and bring five friends to the drive ins (along with a few in the trunk).
Is it true that this model had some issues with rear end traction sometimes, due to the tailfins causing "lift" at certain conditions? I'm almost sure that I've read something about it.
@@0neIntangible It wasn't the fins, it was the rear suspension that had one trailing arm affixed to the right side of the axle with none on the left.
The car behaved differently on right turns than on left,.
@@-oiiio-3993 Thank you for clearing that up. I was thinking that because of the aerodynamics of the fin (wing), design at the rear, that was actually causing lift under certain speeds and wind conditions. It was certainly a beatifully styled, great looking vehicle, probably the best looking Chevy, imho. As a '60s kid, I remember a neighbour with a '59 El Camino...so cool, even today.
Also when I was a kid, playing on the sand at Sauble Beach on Georgian Bay, I would dig down into the deep wet sand and form out a car's interior with seats, dash and doors with sticks and pieplates for my steering wheel and shifters.
@@0neIntangible I was born when the U.S. flag had 49 stars.
My Mom had a friend way back who drove a black '59 flat top Impala. The next door neighbor had a '56 T-Bird, I remember when our family car was a '55 Olds Holiday and Dad drove a new Corvair.
Remember when Hot Wheels came out?
back in the 60's when we were told by the 20th century we will have flying cars that run on nuclear power and to fuel it you only need a single chunk of fuel once every 20 years god were they wrong. I remember the films vividly back in the 60's we all wanted our flying cars and I still do damn it I was robbed.
Did people really keep so much poison in the bathroom medicine cabinet in the 1950s that they needed an entire “poison shelf”?
Top notch as always!
Excellent episode. Thanks!
The medicine cabinet had a "poison" shelf all the way at the top..😲☠☠☠
Wow the future looked great
Plot twist that plexiglass future is 1,000 ft underground post apocalypse
I wish I had a poison shelf! It’s just not fair!
I must remember to utilise more plexiglass.
Looking at material this hopeful about the future from the viewpoint of 2022 does indeed induce sleep in the sense that it is extremely depressing.
It's 70 years later and still nothing has been done.
Looooove these show
May the almighty bless you
Keep them coming
Thanks
“Thanks to the American men and women who design” ❤
General Electric and General Motors promised us a lot of stuff for the future and then never delivered.
"What can be done about this problem?" (Ground travel delays to airports) Speaking from 2022, nothing apparently. "Dammit, where's my flying car?"
The design of the 1959 Chevy Impala. Great attention to styling details, but seatbelts; and only lap belts at that, were optional.
My first monorail ride was the one of the 1964 New York World's Fair. 😊
Fantastic!
Plexiglass! Plexiglass! Plexiglass!
I love this clay car. Should be a big seller , gentleman
Didn't the Town of Springfield explore the monorail concept a while back and found it unsatisfactory? Mainly due to inept operation as I recall. One guy who worked on the monorail went on to design a car with his rich brother. Unfortunately it was a bit of a disaster.
I was amazed how Americans used their weapons of retaliation against Vietnam after it callously attacked America.
20:18 That's the NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo ship. It was built as part of the US Government's Atoms for Peace program. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah (Edit: technically that shot is of a model of the Savannah)
I walked her decks when she was on display at Patriots Point. I admired a model of it as a child. It was satisfying to experience her directly decades later.
…. But seriously… what would we do without stylists and designers???
Everything would be square and grey😮
Or maybe green and wavy? You know, like trees and grass? That would not be so bad in my opinion. :-)
True - Look at Stalinist architecture all over the former Warsaw pact countries
Maybe square and grey is going to be in our future...I'm hoping that it's not!
@@workingtheworld68 despite the cold aesthetic of a lot of Soviet apartment blocks, they are usually pretty well designed… to maximize space, heat and light, while often providing parks/green spaces/parking between the blocks… which are usually designed to include mass public transport lines.
Soviet architecture/urban planning certainly required skilled designers.
That IBM bldg at 22:16 was actually in Toronto on Don Mills at Eglinton. Now site of future condo...
I've seen these in Ogdenville, Brockway, and North Havorbrook.
Weve been robbed of the atom & we have been robbed of space
Ahh, the “American Look” starting on 10:48 , in particular, the architecture and art depicted, borrows heavily from the European modern movement of art, architecture and style from decades before this was filmed. The automobile futurism is heavily influenced by the advancements in aviation and aerospace creating form and line that depicts movement while being static. This influence in design was incorporated in modern design decades earlier as well, both in the United States and abroad.
After seeing the excesses of minimalism, I have less respect for architects' egos than I once did. Their scourge will be with us and future generations for years to come.
Great …the aerial tram when combined with drones should make a wonderful urban environment…
The future sure ain't what it used to be!
In Memphis, we had a mayor back in the 1990's who wanted to transport airline passengers to Downtown on overhead-wired trolley cars. He proposed that the trolley line would revitalize a poverty-stricken area of the city. It was never implemented.
Our smartphones are more powerful than those monstrosities of yesteryear.
I sure wouldn't want to get stuck in traffic behind that rocket car. lol
"The future ain't what it used to be" -- Yogi Berra
plexiglass with plexiglass and plexiglass with lined plexiglass and glas made of plexi with plexiglass that is curved with plexiglass so you can see the plexiglass.
Who could have know that we could F*k things up so easily? And so quickly? Thanks, picsandportraits for the reminder.
At 21:29 the rocket blasting off makes the hi pitch sound of a turbine fuel pump.
I remember when I was at a party and Mr. McGuire pulled me aside and said he only had one word for me and that word was plastics.
More please and thank you.
Love the monorail, but they forgot to envision the miscreant jumping the turnstile.
9:45 It would be great to build a capsule hotel like this. Or small cabins for rent for low-income earners.
at 32:30 a young Herve Villechaize peacefully dreams of B-52's and a strong national defense.
I don't use lol or lmfao, but in this case, I'll make the exception...brilliant.
Step with us as we go into the THIRD Dimension!
Dammit! I missed the age of Plexi-Glas!
We can do remarkable things with actual glass.
Oh boy we're they positive!
Wait a few decades and see what 💩 will unfold
Plastic Jive: It's the future of everything! :o)
The plexiglass part was really funny to me
I'm so enthusiastic about creative imagination and I'm so frustrated I was born and raised in a third world country and never had the chance to be part of the future
And GM was responsible for getting rid of trolly service all over the country. It was a proven system that avoided any congestion.
Yes, I watched a video on here about it during the lockdowns. 🥺
I knew i went to far with the plexi glass look when i got home and couldn't find my house.
AEROTRAIN, at right center, was invented in 1955 by the ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS, (E.M.D.: G.M.) in LA Grange, Illinois, west of Chicago, and famous for the diesel locomotives from 1937 to the later 1940s models like the F7A (B-B), and E7A (A1A-A1A) for new Streamliner passenger express trains that ran up to 117 M.P.H.!!!!! And GP7(B-B) and SD7(C-C) for freight trains. And the SW-7 (B-B) Switchers for switching freight yards and factories. But the AEROTRAIN was technically the unique "L.W.T.-12" for "Light Weight Train 1200 Horse power" with the "B-1" with only the front 4 wheels powered. Thus it was unbalanced because the weight of the heavy diesel engine in back was carried on only the 2 back wheels. But they should have had another 4 wheel BLOMBERG frame or a Flexcoil like the front set. Thus the diesel was Underpowered and frequently was helped by other diesels. Then the New coaches were actually based upon the G.M. city bus, and with suspension by air bags instead of metal springs. But frequently the airbags lost pressure which lead to an extremely rough ride with the wheels banging against the rail joints. But there were some innovative features like the angular windows, and H.E.P. power for lights, heating, and air conditioning that were featured 30 years later on AMFLEET and subways. Plus under floor baggage storage. Plus a rearward facing Obversation car with 2 tail fins that emulated the 1950s auto styling. The 2 AEROTRAINS had 10 coaches carrying 40 people each for a total of 400. The AEROTRAINS toured around the u.s.a. on the N.Y.C. P.R.R. around Horseshoe Curve. And U.P. from L.A. to Las Vegas. through Cajon Pass. But due to the combinations of many problems during the 2 year tour. In 1958 they were sold to the ROCK ISLAND RR. And used in Chicago Commuter service Westward to Joliet. But in 1966 they were retired and donated to 2 rail museums in the Midwest. Diesel 2 and 2 coaches were donated to THE NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the coaches still have decals from when it was used on the PENNSY. PLUS...the 2 coaches were used on the NRRM tourist train that runs around a small circular track. And the NRRM used the small 20 tonner PLYMOUTH industrial switcher Number 702 from W.P.S., but after 702 broke down in 1987 it just sat alone until 1997 when a different manager who was Not a railroader nor modelers had it scrapped and destroyed. And ever since 2001 the AEROTRAIN 2 and 2 coaches is parked inside the McCormick Pavillion on Track 1 but trapped inside when the switch was ripped out and changed over to the Outside North side display track. But then again Diesel 3 and 2 bus coaches were also donated to Saint Louis, Missouri and the National Museum of Transportation. Maybe, Hopefully, Someday, 1 of the LWT12 Diesels can be rebuilt, and the 4 coaches, and go to the different rail museums around the U.S.A. to run short excursions. THUS: This rebuilding could be accomplished in the next 3 Years. The AEROTRAIN 70TH ANNIVERSARY WILL HAPPEN VERY SOON IN 3 YEARS IN 2025 A.D. PLEASE, Contact me on my Facebook page with the heading "AEROTRAIN 70 IN 2025" , OK!! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!! ALL ABOARD!! HIGHBALL, AEROTRAIN!!-! GOD BLESS THE U.S.A 🇺🇸!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN 🙏. BY: Steven Solway, Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.A.!!!!! U.S. Mail Address: 811 Bader Street. Apartment B. Zip: 54302. ADVISORY: THIS CURRENTLY A CONCEPT ONLY!!!!! THUSLY: IT IS NOT RECOGNIZED, NOR AUTHORIZED BY NEITHER THE N.R.R.M., NOR THE N.M.O.T. DO NOT!!! CONTACT THEM FOR ANYTHING WHAT-SO-EVER!!!!! HEED MY WARNING!!!!! Thank you from Steven Solway, alone and solo, for all your support. God Bless the U.S.A.!!!!! ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN 🙏.
LOL!
"..would you pull the AR5 and replace it with a spare."
You wonder why the elevated hooked monorail never caught on, as it was pretty practical
gravity
Amazing how America got travel SO wrong! If you fly into Japan, you can quickly get to any city from the trains near the major airports. If only America invested in railways, traffic would not be so bad. Also, how is it that america is still using old fashion toilets and video door bells are still not common?
23:28 This IPad has more power than a whole multi level building full of those computers from back in the day 😏🇺🇸❤️🖖🏼
Ah yes the Poison Shelf.... hahaha
25:59 scrawled on the back of control knob recovered from Greenland, "Please, I want a pizza."
The future is only for the very rich.
What? Was it normal for people of yore to keep poisons inside their bathroom cabinets?
"The PLEXIGLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIER allows for natural light throughout, reducing lighting costs"
A glass house you actually can throw stones in.