1982 ... giants below!
Technology-based Sci-fi and Fantasy **pictorial art** featuring robots, cyborgs, mechanisms, vehicles, spaceships, futuristic cars or other transport other tags: science fiction, scifi, future, science-fiction, sci-fi
Technology-based Sci-fi and Fantasy **pictorial art** featuring robots, cyborgs, mechanisms, vehicles, spaceships, futuristic cars or other transport other tags: science fiction, scifi, future, science-fiction, sci-fi
1982 ... giants below!
This subreddit focuses on the futurist visions of eras past. However posts may also contain contemporary art with a retrofuturist theme. Futurism was born out of humanity's sudden thrust into technological revolution. To the many that witnessed the dramatic, rapid change, it seemed a technological utopia was fast approaching. This unbridled optimism caused the collective imagination to run wild.
Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like it Hot in Los Angeles, California, 1958. Photo by Richard C. Miller.
A place to share articles, stories, photos, and videos from America's halcyon days. The cars, the clothes, the music, the movies, the art, and the culture: it all belongs here. Feel free to post items of substance - the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing, the Cold War and Space Race were hot, environmentalism was nascent, and under society's pristine veneer was an undercurrent of new thinking and the unstoppable force of change.
Gilda Gray By Carlo Leonetti (1925)
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Gloria Swanson, c. 1920s.
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1925 "Montparnesse Blues" by Kees van Dongen.
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Susanna Hoffs Chillin' with Beastie Boys' Adam and Mike, 1987.
All about the greatest decade ever -- the Big 1980s! Subreddit launched on March 12, 2010, under new management on October 12, 2022.
Teri Garr in Young Frankenstein, 1974.
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SWATCH Watch Inc, 1989.
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Woodbury Facial Soap Ad, Family Circle October, 1958.
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Lya De Putti, c. 1929.
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Firth carpets, 1948 ad.
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Mary Philbin in “The Man Who Laughs” (1928)
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Gloria Swanson, 1920s.
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Joan Crawford and Lon Chaney in “The Unknown” (1927)
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Louise Brooks in “The American Venus” (1926)
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Mary Philbin with some fan mail at Universal Pictures in 1922.
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Topps Chewing Gum Inc, 1978.
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1922. Claire Windsor in "Grand Larceny".
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Gloria Swanson for “Her Love Story” (1924)
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Clara Bow, 1933.
/r/OldSchoolCool **History's cool kids, looking fantastic!** A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between. If you've found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.
Spring Air Co, 1975 ad.
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Ralph Lauren Corp, 1990 ad.
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Montgomery Ward & Co, 1971 ad.
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Holiday Inns of America Inc, 1966 ad.
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