Late afternoon in Shanghai - 1937
Leyat Hélica, a French automobile produced between 1919 & 1925
Propeller cars are something that were reinvented over and over for the first 20-30 years of automobiles (notably, quite a few in France), and I absolutely love the potential because they do make some sort of sense in theory.
My two favorites are the 1932 Helicron (France), and especially the 1936 Schlörwagen Pillbug (Germany, modified by the Soviets to feature a radial propeller in 1942).


I love 70s-90s scifi. People fighting to retrieve AI programs on floppy disks. Passing around complicated computer programs on magnetic tape. Sending each other faxes between FTL spaceships. It's the best.
Sneakernet was/is a real thing and I love that even then they affixed and extropolated on it in the scifi realm. Here’s one of my favorite quotes by Andrew S. Tannenbaum.
> “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
i want to thank the 1920s-1930s third wheel who saw their two friends lying in bed together in their underwear and stocking garters reading a book with their legs wrapped around each other and said “i am going to take a photograph of this”
i hope wherever they are now that everyone involved in the taking of this photograph knows how much joy it is bringing me 80-100 years later

Never before published images of men in love between 1850 and 1950 by Dee Swan, Hugh Nini andNeal Treadwell (Washington Post)
Reblogging this again because please, please click the link and look at the other photos but more importantly read the words written by the owners of the collection because it’s so touching and heart-warming

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