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Robert (Butch) Day
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:02 pm    Post subject: The Retro-Future Thread Reply with quote

I'm creating this because

A) It's interesting in itself;

B) Part of our history: how our ancestors viewed the future;

C) It'll be fun for budding writers to extrapolate alternate timelines.

First up, a monorail instead of the Golden Gate Bridge.



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

By 1973, we'll all be flying at 2100mph.

The Boeing 2707 would have been an incredible 306' long.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you, Brent!

THIS is what I want to see, more memories from the past.

Postings can range from what Brent has posted to Victorian concepts. Example; Robert A. Heinlein wrote a short story, The Roads Must Roll, which featured moving slidewalks he called "the roads". He probably got the idea from this:







A good site to explore is http://paleofuture.com/ where you can find retro-future from the silly:



to the strange:



to the potentially frightening:



This is from a January 7, 1899 newspaper article about English sailors saving French soldiers who were transported by submarine in a failed invasion of the UK!

I'm certain that there are many places to find these nifty dreams of tomorrow-past!

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A french concept. Buses that double as ski-lifts tramways for large parties of skiers (and presumably snowboarders, etc.)



A strange train from Poland that was very popular, the Fablok Luxtorpeda;



Both are from the 1930s.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why have air ports on the ground? As we enter the brave new adventure of travel by air, how about having the air craft travelling between "islands in the air"? As well as the wonders of science wonder stories, Uncle Hugo also looked forward to the wonders of air travel...



My copy of that magazine is in less than mint condition, but so would you be if you were almost 87 years old! Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From Pye-rate, the 1956 Golden Dolphin Viberti from Italy.





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PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting monorail concept. Under the rail is for passengers, beside the rail is the drive motors, etc., and above the rail is for cargo, baggage, etc.


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Custer wrote:
Why have air ports on the ground? As we enter the brave new adventure of travel by air, how about having the air craft travelling between "islands in the air"?

Or stopping to refuel at a floating airport in mid-Atlantic, as shown in the 1932 German film F.P.1 antwortet nicht (F.P.1 Doesn't Answer)?



Of course, commercial planes capable of crossing the Atlantic nonstop quickly made the concept obsolete.


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 3:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This article claims some old retro future, 7,000 years.

http://www.ewao.com/a/1-airplanes-and-interplanetary-travel-described-7000-years-ago-in-india/
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pye-Rate wrote:
This article claims some old retro future, 7,000 years.

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The texts were revealed in 1952 by G. R. Josye and contain 3000 shlokas in 8 chapters which Shastry claimed was psychically delivered to him by the ancient Hindu sage Bharadvaja.

Yeah, that's real prescient. Rolling Eyes The article doesn't even identify who this Shastry is/was.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is actually future retro.

http://www.techinsider.io/chinese-ghost-town-2016-1?utm
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 3:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Talgo Industries —a Spanish company which still exists — made this in the late 1930s.



I just love this rear car!



(The pictures are from November 15, 1942.)

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The sad story of the Chinese city of Ordos that was built and now can't attract enough residents is a kind of "retro-futuristic"!

Like the other "futuristic" designs on this thread, the city isn't being used and appreciated as it should have been. That's a sad tale indeed. It reminds me a little of Tomorrowland, the movie in which a futuristic city begins to crumble away because of neglect!






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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When you cut your grass this Summer, make sure you use the appropriate lawn mower!


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought all American lawnmowers looked like that?

Anyway, moving on a month with Air Wonder Stories (and not a scan from my collection - a bit too clean to not have been smoothed out a bit, yes?), a look at what a retro-futuristic jumbo jet equivalent ought to look like, once anti-gravity has been sorted out...

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