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Another one of those great ideas that the future seamed surely to hold for all of suburbia. Right up there with a heli-pad and built in entryway storage for the family’s jet packs. The 50′s and 60′s were all about all the cool stuff coming to you soon, thanks to technology. This is one that seems so doable, and is, until you realize you could build 10 pools for the cost of the 8 inch+ glass panels you would need to hold back 40,000 gallons of water.

Just think you could keep an eye on junior while he swims and still sit in the comfort of your living room and watch the ball game. And if junior wants to take 5 while playing Marco Polo he could catch a couple “at bats” with out leaving the pool. It’s perfect!

I also dig the remote siting on the coffee table. One of those old school ones. Giant plastic box with 2 rocker switches on the top. Not quite the stylish fetish object as say, the iPod.

See you in the future.

Masto.

I must confess I much prefer the pin-ups of old to today’s. But I have to wonder what the appeal was supposed to be for a broad on a skin rug? Was this some kind of ceremonial totem that our forefathers needed to do the deed? I don’t remember seeing a “copulation skin” anywhere in our house or my grandparents for that matter. Maybe it’s one of those things that the original context has been long forgotten. Which means now we just get to endlessly poke fun at the whole idea.

PS. If you’re like me and for some strange reason looking at the above photo makes you start humming “The Look of Love” …this ones for you.

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Masto.