chrome dream

quod visum placet

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Richard Lee High School, New Haven, Connecticut. Designed by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo in 1967.

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[humanoidhistory]

Popcorn vending machine, 1975. Photo by Dewey Mears.

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Ford Thunderbird instrumental panel concept, late 1960s.

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Concept rendering for the (ultimately never built) fourth generation Plymouth Barracuda, by John R. "Dick" Samsen.

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[archiveofaffinities]

Commercial Block 1882, with Cosmetic Mansard circa 1969, Marion Ohio, Photograph 1982

[chromedream]

Boy on horseback watching the Space Shuttle Enterprise being towed, mounted on a 90-wheel transporter and accompanied by a 20-vehicle convoy, from the Rockwell International facility in Palmdale to a dry lake test facility in the Antelope Valley, California. February 1, 1977

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[oldshowbiz]

Plaza bowl

[fragrantblossoms]

Ella Bergmann-Michel - Untitled, 1964. Ink and collage on black card stock.

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Mockup of the 1991 Ford Escort GT (North American version). The design is mostly there, but the front end, spoiler, and wheel design would change before production.

I've never seen cardboard standees at a design review before...

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[chromedream]

Upholstery concept for the third generation (1971-74) Dodge Charger.

[fifties-sixties-everyday-life]

1955

[newsfromsomewhere]

Pontiac soft top

[scavengedluxury]

Sainsbury's potatoes, 1950s-60s. From the Sainsbury Archive.

[archiveofaffinities]

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Cantor Drive-in Restaurant, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1945-1950

[chromedream]

Early concept for the 1968 Pontiac Tempest by William Porter.

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Concept for a General Motors microcar by Duane “Sparky” Bohnstedt, 1974.

This design shares much with the XP-512 concepts from 1969, presumably GM was giving serious thought to building such a small vehicle in the depths of the 1973-74 energy crisis.

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[rearte2]

by Lothar Quinte, 1975

[archiveofaffinities]

White Tower, Philadelphia #17, 1954