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1969 Plan To Build Second Nuke-Proof Manhattan Below New York City. Cold War Porn!
Ah, the Cold War! Aside from all that insane amount of blood shed, useless money spent on arms development, psyche scarring, governments overthrown just because we didn’t agree with their potential socialist bent, and more, it produced some pretty cool retro-future stuff. Such as? This plan for a second Manhattan underneath New York City.
Retro-Future Airports Were Gorgeous Works of Impracticality
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Over at io9, they passed along some work by John Ptak over at Ptak Science Books. Our boy Ptak did a gorgeous round-up of retro-future proposed airports. Like everything else retro-future, they’re gorgeous, impractical, and sadly have never come to pass. But that’s okay! Despite the fact that these cities with sheen never came to pass, and the airport could be used in lieu of waterboarding, we can still live vicariously through these pictures. Hit the jump for the other sadly non-existent airports.
