Postcards To The Future

There’s plenty of footage out there showing what people thought the year 2000 would bring from the 1950s and 60s but what about the view from 1900?

A series of postcards from German chocolate company Hildebrands gives us a glimpse into their thoughts on life at the turn of the millennium, a far more whimsical (and corseted) vision of what was to be.

A Quick Stroll on the Water


The Moving Pavement


House-Moving by Train


Televised Outside Broadcasting


Personal Flying Machines


Combined Ship and Railway Locomotive


Weather Control Machine


Undersea Tourist Boats


Roofed Cities


Personal Airships


Police X-Ray Surveillance Machine


Summer Holidays at the North Pole

Source: paleofuture