Scout's Atomic Flash

Cyber-collector of early-to-mid 20th Century cultural imagery and artifacts.

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They’re Breaking The Internet

Well, my friends - Scout’s Atomic Flash Tumblr just celebrated Five Years of sharing a galaxy of grand stuffs with all of you...and every comment, like, and repost is exceptionally appreciated. Thank you all for your support - it’s been wonderful to see how much you’ve appreciated it.

Unfortunately, yesterday the folks at Tumblr saw fit to send me an email stating that Atomic Flash has been flagged as...adult content...! All these years Atomic Flash took pride in presenting content for all ages and all people - this accusation by the folks at Tumblr is simply outrageous.

This is an a-political blog, but something must be said.

Corporate goons who own the most popular interweb platforms are BREAKING THE INTERNET.

As a result of this crazy insult to Atomic Flash by the creeps in the depths of the Tumblr thought police, it is with sadness that Scout will no longer present new posts here at Atomic Flash. The account will remain as an archive - for as long as the corpRATS allow - but participation on this corrupt platform is beneath the dignity of the work.

Thanks again to all you wonderful folks - all 31,266 of you - for making the work involved in researching and posting the fun stuffs of history very worth-the-while.

It’s been Grand...😉👍🏻

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Building The World Of Tomorrow: The Transportation Building-Rocket Port - 1939 New York World’s Fair postcard (image via Joe Haupt)

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The RCA 501 Electronic Data Processing System - Radio Corporation of America advert detail, Fortune magazine November 1959.

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Electrons Are Coming!  – Minneapolis-Honeywell advert detail, Collier’s Magazine, 24 July 1943.

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1936 GM Bus Concept - In late 1936, one of the designers in GM's Truck Studio produced this amazing bus concept rendering. The producers of the Buck Rogers' series could have easily used it in one of their films. (via GM)

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Beyond The Time Barrier (1960) - A pilot crashes through the time barrier into the world of 2024, inhabited by the last remnants of civilization. A Cold War era sci-fi time travel flick. Filmed in Texas in 10 days.

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The Spearmint Kid: The Best Advertising Doll On Earth - Playthings magazine advert, 1915. The introduction of the Wrigley's Spearmint gum mascot. Grotesque - Animated - Has a Voice - It is Different

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Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head advert detail, 1953

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The Man Who Stopped The Dust - Astounding Stories, March 1934. Cover Art: Howard V. Brown

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BUCK ROGERS, No. 1 WINTER 1940 - Dick Calkins Cover Art

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‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures - This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums. (image via Hake’s)

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‘Ray Therapy’ - A group of children hold hands around a radiating glow of ultraviolet light at the Institute of Ray Therapy. March 07, 1930 - Institute for Ray Therapy, Camden. (Image: Hulton Archive, Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Actinotherapy (treatment using ultraviolet and infrared light) was offered to convalescents who had become debilitated after illness or operation, workers deprived of sunlight in their work, those with wasted muscles due to fracture or accident, weakly children and those with rickets or bronchitis, patients with rheumatism or rheumatoid arthritis, or various forms of paralysis, and those with skin diseases, varicose ulcers, baldness, lumbago or sciatica. Patients required a letter of referral from their G.P. and were obliged to attend for treatment three times a week.  They were not allowed to cease treatment until they were discharged. (Lost Hospitals of London)

Ultraviolet light causes progressive damage to human skin and erythema even from small doses. This is mediated by genetic damage, collagen damage, as well as destruction of vitamin A and vitamin C in the skin and free radical generation. Ultraviolet light is also known to be a factor in formation of cataracts. Ultraviolet radiation exposure is strongly linked to incidence of skin cancer. (wikipedia)

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Making Movies In A Volcano - Popular Science Monthly, 1933. illustration: Edgar Franklin Wittmack. (image via paul.malon)

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Mantovani: Romantic Melodies - Long playing microgroove full frequency range recording. London Records LL 979, 1954 (image via Ernie Uszniewicz)

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Peanuts, January 21, 1956 (via gameraboy)

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Mr. Freeze (aka Eli Wallach) - Batman Episode: Ice Spy, Airdate: 29 March 1967. Wallach played the third Mr. Freeze in the Batman TV series which was also the character’s last appearance.

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L'Aérotrain I80 HV - owns the ‘hovertrain’ speed record of 267 mph set in 1974.

Engineer Jean Bertin’s revolutionary jet‐powered passenger train designed to glide along a rail on a cushion of air provided by its own engine. The Aérotrain service was to have linked Paris with the town of Pointoise, 25 miles away. The project was set aside in 1975 after Bertin’s death, the French Government abandoned the project in 1977 due to lack of funding.