A new sensation...in 1934

[Dave W]

Awhile back I discovered that someone has set up a blog with scans of old articles from Modern Mechanix and Popular Science magazines. I've been reading it fairly often. Great stuff, including some bizarre inventions and others that were unheard of but now we take for granted.

Take a look at this entry from today: Outdoor Grill For Barbecues. A novel idea 74 years ago. Too bad this idea never caught on. 

The homepage is here.

[eb2]

Great stuff!  I love flipping through old magazines for stuff like that.  This guy is doing all the work for you.

I had a pile of old Home Craftsman magazines from the early 1950s, kind of a woodworking and beyond magazine.  The one I loved had an article where they took an untouched 1880s victorian home, and showed how to do things like saw off the gingerbread trim, and rip out ornameted ceilings, stained glass, gas fixtures, etc and make it look like a modern 1950 home.  Complete sacrilege now, but back then it happened every day.