Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.
Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this book the optimism we need to accept that the future will be better but we sometime can't imagine what it will really look like. I wish all my readers a great 2024 and many happy surprises.
Some of these "visions" look familiar, like they happened, but not as we thought, others are still to come.
Pekelis, V. Веселое Путешествие (Happy Journeys.) Moscow: Detgiz. (52 p.) 1961.
REALLY
AMAZING
TRAINS (Anyone see Snowpiercer?)
DOMED CITIES (or Stadiums?)
READING, LISTENING TO MUSIC, WATCHING MOVIES IN YOUR CAR
INSTANT HOUSES
KIDS RIDING ELECTRIC BIKES TO SCHOOL (but no helicopters yet)
BUT NO HELICOPTER TRAFFIC EITHER
GIANT MOVIES IN THE SKY
MACHINES THAT DELIVER ENDLESS BOOKS
EXPLORING THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN
PLANES TAKING YOU AROUND THE WORLD
ROCKETS LEAVING EARTH
PEOPLE ON THE MOON
PEOPLE LIVING IN SPACE
COLONIZING MARS
TELESCOPES SHOWING NEW FAR-OFF PLACES TO VISIT
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