March 6, 2017March 6, 20171960s, People You've Never Heard Of Johnny Cash Has Five Minutes to Live! He’s a goddamn door-to-door maniac! He’s a milky faced, baby-faced cruel psychopath of a guitar-strumming KILLER. It’s our favorite warbler–Johnny Cash, in […]
March 6, 2017May 31, 20211960s, People You've Never Heard Of, Where Did This Person Go? Twilight Zone: “We All Know What Became of Bonnie Beecher” And I chose Bonnie Beecher, and we all know what became of Bonnie Beecher. William Froug, in The Twilight Zone Companion, by […]
March 5, 2017March 5, 20171980s, Railroad BZhRK Barguzin Russian Rail Missile Had Precedent with Peacekeeper Rail System, 1986 Over at Popular Mechanics, Kyle Mizokami reports that Russia is developing a rail-mounted system of mobile ICBMs that will constantly rove the […]
September 20, 2016November 9, 20171940s, People You've Never Heard Of Lee Van Cleef, Official Badass and Savior of Little Dogs Everybody knows the Lee Van Cleef of late 1960s spaghetti Westerns. So why should I put him in the category of People […]
December 12, 2013December 12, 20131950s, Aircraft Boeing Stratocruiser Cutaway, 1952 Click Image For Full 1636 x 781 px Size In 1952, the 67.5 ton Boeing Stratocruiser cost a (then) whopping $1.5 million. With […]
December 11, 2013December 9, 20131950s, Vehicles Camper Built Inside a Car, 1952 The illustrator for this drawing is unknown, which is a shame because it’s such a precisely rendered cutaway of a 1949 […]
December 10, 2013July 8, 20171960s, Movie Sets (Interior), Simulated Places The Day Mission: Impossible Invaded The Brady Bunch House One of the best things about fictional environments is that we can project our dreams on them. And kids of the 1970s […]
December 10, 2013December 9, 20131950s, Aircraft, Ray Pioch Triple Deck Auto Transport Plane Cutaway, 1952 A lovely 3-color cutaway by Popular Science stalwart, technical illustrator Ray Piotch, of the Blackburn Universal Freighter (“BUF”). The BUF had […]
December 9, 2013December 8, 20131950s, Railroad Super Dome Train Car Cutaway, 1952 Sightseeing “dome” rail cars were not new in 1952, but to this point these VistaDomes, as they were called, had extended only […]
December 8, 2013October 9, 20191950s, Vehicles Two Story Trailer Cutway, 1952 From the magazine, we’re told that this trailer, from Holan Engineering from Elwood, Indiana, has two stories and an attic, a plastic-tiled […]