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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Retro future: Los Angeles, 2013 (as viewed from 1986)


The L.A. times has posted a full-length feature article they ran in a (now defunct) L.A. Times Magazine issue that looked ahead to the year 2013. The Syd Mead-ish cover artwork alone is cool enough for it's own post.

I'm a sucker for these retro/paleo future type articles. Especially when they use nifty architectural renderings of "the future". The article covers how Los Angelenos would commute, do business, and enjoy leisure in a quarter century's time. Fun stuff!

Check out the fully scanned pages at the L.A. Times.

4 comments:

  1. I've managed to scrape the site and get the large versions of the gifs. I've zipped them for download, here.

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  2. I wish we lived in that future... Amazing find

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  3. Sniff... Thank you, I really needed something to make me depressed today.

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