Flying cities… Martian colonies… spaceships… robots… monorails… bubble-topped cars… atomic explosions

These have all appeared in both drawings of the future in pulp magazines and serious architectural proposals. These have always been interesting to me as a child and now. Kinda like vision of the future in Minority Report, I thought that was really cool or those cool robot hands wearing white gloves on the Jetson’s helping making life oh so easy.

I made my own blueprints for some pretty awesome sci-fi clubhouses and lunar cites in my younger days, I wish I had them to scan today. I watch my son do the same thing; he’s actually working on some pretty amazing amusement parks now. I’d upload them but I don’t want anyone stealing his ideas.

These ideas always spark imagination and most just make us laugh. Some have even come to pass. I’m still waiting for a hover skateboard.

In the 20^th century, high and low, fact and fiction mixed in ways that are now impossible to separate.

Enjoy these scans! Leave comments. Let me know what you think.

Scans – Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future