Monday, April 2, 2012

The 1934 Vision of the suburbs...


I love the future as pictured by those imaginative artists and scientists in the early 1900's. Like the following rolling home that didn't catch on for some reason:

Smithsonian: The September, 1934 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics imagined the house of the future as an enormous sphere that would make moving easy if the home owner simply wrapped large tires over the thing and towed it with a tractor. Should spherical houses come into favor, as modernistic architects predict, the shell of a house could be made thus; the necessary openings cut; and it would be rolled to the owner’s lot as shown. Properly built-in fixtures would even stand such moving.

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