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 […]
“Forever” Mid-Century Homes of Steel and Concrete: Invisible, Forgotten Whittier Hugheston Meadows
Honeysuckle Lane. It sounds too good to be true, too mid-century-modern-suburban, like Desperate Housewives’ Wisteria Lane or a David Lynch dream. But […]
Fake Nazi Training “Village” at Camp Hood, Texas (1940s)
In the 1940s, Camp Hood in Killeen, TX built a fake Nazi training village for hand to hand combat. These stills from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]