Friday, June 29, 2007

Levittown in space: 1953 pulp mag cover

its where I grew up, really

Levittown in space: 1953 pulp mag cover: "Cory Doctorow:



Nostalgia for the future doesn't get any better than this 1953 pulp sf magazine cover depicting a couple buying a bubble-house floating in the void of space -- the house, the salesman, and the couple all manage to conjure up the Levittown sensibility of post-war boom housing.

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(via Paleo-Futurism)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

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