Picturephone.....what they didn't tell you:

Was that it had a TERRIBLE frame rate...something like 2 frames a second.
By no means did it produce the consistent television-like quality the concept clearly implied.

 

2001 promoted some variant of this:

"picture unit has a zoom feature"!!!!

 

 

1930s NYC highway sign: by the time you read, it's too late!

 AS TIME went on important highway notifications were developed with
visible larger signs & lettering engineered for eyesight and not style.

It'd be real funny if Robert Moses had a hand in this one.

OMG this is fun! Ultra-rare sci-fi. Get headphones, you won't hear music like this anywhere else.

 

These are some of the better scenes from WELTRAUMSCHIFF 1 STARTET (1937)
Austrian sci-fi film....music from the era is unforgettable.

We do NOT speak Wal-Mart!

 

Areas of Sun possibly closed for maintenance.

DARK ZONES may indicate closed areas.

This could be happening so inhabitants can mow lawns or eat ice cream, which
is known to melt more slowly in low temperatures.

Randy Kirby from "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E."

 

Bad Kitty

 

1930s postcard L.A. City Hall

 

Keeps you out of arguments too...

 THE PRISONER 1966

GORATH (1962) great artwork

 

1959 Space Flight Illustration

 

Orson Welles

 

MIND of a MORON

 Texas "mayor" Tim Boyd talks himself out of a job, destroys public image Chernobyl-style:

Guess what?
After THAT catastrophic error went viral he wasn't even finished:

Bell Out of Order, Please Text

 

For those that cry "blasphemy"
okay, here's the original:

1939: ELEKTRO Westinghouse Robot & Moto Mutt!

1939 Robotics can be tough to watch but its accurate and authentic:

 

AGAIN: When people like this die, it's a sign good things are happening.

 

Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio host, dead at 70   

GOODBYE Limbaugh you pathetic piece of shit!
I won't even give you a good link, you get a N.Y. Post (sheer embarrassment) link.

If he died 10yrs ago this world would be a better place!

Try advocating for CIVIL WAR now you miserable s.o.b.!!!

Hotter than Florida down there, ain't it Rush?

1960s computer console

 

Farrah Says Sam Bad

 

When people like this die, it's a sign good things are happening.

 

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt dies at 78

Nixonian Reflections....

 National Lampoon early 1970s