Plan59
Posted on August 8th, 2007 in Automotive Life, Daily Life |
Nostalgic for a generation that you probably weren’t alive to see, much less able to lay claim to? Me too. If that generation is the 1950’s, then Plan59 should be your next destination. Plan59 is a fantastic site that is “THE MUSEUM (AND GIFT SHOP) OF MID-CENTURY ILLUSTRATION”.
The wealth of material here is wonderful and I think anyone could get lost browsing through its pages for a bit and imagining the future that this wistful time was dreaming of. I’m a car fan myself and I think the ads are great. The space section looks like something straight out of a Marvin Martian cartoon. More than one spacecraft is overtly phallic to an almost comical degree, but hey, Ace & Gary had to start somewhere.
Now to think of a project for this new found repository of what might almost be called kitsch.
