Simon Rogers 

How the world of 1950 looked in 1925: infographic

Airships above you, cars below ground; clean pedestrianised streets, beautiful elegant high-rise living… how exotic the far-off year of 1950 must have seemed to readers of Popular Science Monthly in 1925, when this infographic was published
  
  

May Live to See - 1925
May Live to See, published in 1925. Note the ‘may’. Published by Retronaut Photograph: Public Domain

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