Looking inside the Popular Mechanics 1935 “Flying Boat”:
Welsh rarebit coming right up. Note the ladder leading up to the wing.
The cover is sharp and crystal-clear. It’s my scanner that blurred the picture. A real-life bartender whipping up a gin gimlet for a guy in a suit.
Except for those bunk beds, which you are undoubtedly sharing with a stranger, a most civilized way to travel.
I reproduce this Popular Mechanics cover of April 1935 in all of its ball-throbbing glory–because that is the only way to describe the muscularity of 1930s popular journalism. There is nothing I don’t like about this cover. I love the orange and blue contrast, the NRA Code logo in the bottom left, the typography, and most of all, the cutaway airplane.
Cutaways – you can get lost in them, imagining yourself inside. Models, miniatures, cutaways – pretty much a lost art today.
I will pick apart this cutaway in separate posts. See here to look further inside the Flying Boat airplane.
What the hell isn’t wonderful about Tracey Ullman? Below, her miniature hybrid car from Tracey Ullman: State of the Union.
Sky buckets, gondolas, sky-trams–technically, aerial tramways–are the most visible invisible transport around.
Contrast the Disneyland Matterhorn tramway from the 1950s…
With the real aerial tramway at Zermatt, Switzerland–also the Matterhorn…
