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John Byrne
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I love this kind of stuff!
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 05 February 2026 at 12:58pm | IP Logged | 2
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Wow. I wish I had all day free to deep dive into this...! So much amazing art work.
And then there's this...
"Trampling Art for Profits."
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Robin Taylor
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oh wow, those are great!
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Edward Aycock
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I really love the 1950s artwork where everybody looks so nifty in their new gleaming homes.
Some of these remind me a lot of the work of the late Bruce McCall, whose retro-futuristic stuff was often featured in The New Yorker. |
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Andrew Davey
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That was a fun diversion. Thanks for sharing.
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Conrad Teves
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What's in almost every image is hope for a wondrous future.Cool, when we had that.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 06 February 2026 at 3:53pm | IP Logged | 7
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Hey, when I was a kid even nuclear war was “hopeful”.Afterwards, we’d get to ride the giant grasshoppers!
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Ah, retro-futurism! I would not be disappointed if we started designing things to look more of this style.
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John Byrne
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I would love to see fins come back on cars—not that I plan to give up either of my Old Reliables within what is left of my lifetime. When I was growing up, my father had two cars with fins, a 1959 Plymouth Fury and a 1959 Rambler Ambassador. The latter looked very much like a 1957 Chevy. Bit of heartbreak, there. I learned to drive in the Rambler, and had convinced myself it would eventually become my first car. But one day I came home from school to find a ‘65 Rambler in our parking slot. Dad had “traded up” without a word to me!! I didn’t even get to say goodbye!! <:-(
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Trevor Smith
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"...a 1959 Plymouth Fury..."
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One year shy of being the same model year as Christine!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 09 February 2026 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | 11
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Curious thing about that Plymouth—it was a “city car”, issued to my dad when he headed the Planning Department a city hall in Edmonton. It was painted dark green and at a glance looked like a police car. It even had a city crest decal on each of the two front doors. Amusingly, the first time dad drove it home a real police car followed him. The cops wanted to know what a civilian was doing driving one of their vehicles! :-)
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Mike Baswell
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| Posted: 10 February 2026 at 1:31am | IP Logged | 12
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Picked up this book in Ollies for cheap a couple of years ago. Fascinating stuff and very much in this vein.
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