Paleo-Future — pretty much the definitive blog on retrofuturism — has just posted another fantastic fine: a real estate pamphlet from December, 1953 showing a couple of recently married cosmonauts floating in the ether, while a balding, weasely looking real-estate agent tries to hand-wave around the fact that the astroturf has space moles and the oxygen dome leaks in winter. I especially love the look of the wife: floating around in the horrible empty void of outerspace, surrounded by whizzing micro-meteorites, but she still managed to cram a perfectly gleaming coiffurage into her air-tight space helmet and don a set of pearls.
The Future of Real Estate [Paleo-Future]
