"In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000.
The optimistic renderings envisioned people in Victorian fashions enjoying lives of boundless leisure and comfort enabled by a century of technological advancement..."

 oldviolin wrote:
 
He did really nice work; it must've been fun doing those illustrations.  That picture even has an iPad/Skype/Echo Show kind of device.

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The Future Is Glass


why do the tomatoes on the counter have faces?
Hmmm. Curiouser and curiouser...

 BillG wrote:
 
The TV caught my eye too. Pretty good call for 1956. We grill a lot of fruit - pineapple/bannana/ect.  We haven't done grapefruit yet, but now that I'm thinking about it, I would do that and add it to coleslaw to go with fish tacos.  Those guys knew what I'll be doing in three weeks, amazing. 

 BillG wrote:
 

21 Channels!

 JrzyTmata wrote:
 

and they seem to have obesity under control 

everyone looks like they could use a sandwich (or two)

 oldviolin wrote:
 
:lol: I saw the skeleton kid too.
At least they have orange tabby cats.

 BillG wrote:
 

Wireless apparently. 

 BillG wrote:
 
Yes, fortunately they seemed to be wrong about grilled grapefruit actually becoming a big thing in the future.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Plus le chef giving that chopper the thumbs down. Maybe that's a clue to skeleton boy...

 oldviolin wrote:
 

I'm impressed by the HD color flatscreen TV. In 1956, TV was black & white, with 4:3 aspect ratios and big bulbous tubes. 

But they're grilling the grapefruit. That's just wrong.

 oldviolin wrote:
 

Yeah, there's snow on the ground but no one is wearing a coat.  It doesn't appear as if the patio is completely sealed in, though there is a Plexiglas wall - what's keeping them warm?  Maybe that magic grill.  The cat seems happy.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Also cinnamon buns, copius grapefruit and spaghetti squash. Not to mention the snow covered landscape,  the circus animal cages and the resurrection of Topo Gigio in digital format. 
I'm a bit curious about the kid in a skeleton costume though. 

We were robbed; they do have French fries and steak at least.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

"May solve congestion problems" Um, did they even see the picture before they wrote that?

"Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett (1873-1954) didn't invent the concept of multi-level separation of vehicle and pedestrian traffic, but he did much to popularize the concept in the early decades of the twentieth century..."

 miamizsun wrote: 
Oh my gosh! before I watch I just gotta say- Jethro Tull; around '73-4. The band is performing from A Passion Play. There's a plain wooden barstool onstage with a telephone sitting on it. Every so often during a song the band randomly stops and they all cup an ear and lean toward the phone, which is not ringing. They must have done this 4 or 5 times. Finally the show and encore is over, house lights come up, the phone starts to ring and Ian Anderson comes back onstage and answers "hello hello", then holds the receiver out to the crowd and exclaims "it's for you!"

There's your random concert memory for the day...

hello? hello?

it's for you....


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