Kiddies Taught Traffic Laws (Feb, 1938)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1938
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1938
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Kiddies Taught Traffic Laws
A MINIATURE roadway complete with signs, stop-and-go lights, crossings and safety zones is being used to teach pedestrian and auto traffic regulations to school children in Brentwood, England. The lessons are made interesting for the tots by letting them drive miniature autos over the “highway,” impersonate policemen, etc.
hello fella:
I found this blog today and I am very pleased. I just want to thank you for sharing this wonderful collection of yours. I was looking for images for a paper I am writting on Streamlined design and you surely helped me a lot. but… who are you? what are your interests? what led you to this vintage pseudo-science pop universe? I could find no profile, no about…
by the way, I live in Brazil and have strong bonds to all this vintage imagery and design. you can see some pictures of my personal collection of vintage plastics design from XIXth century on here: http://www.fotolog.net/galessa
thanks for just been there.
galessa
Comment by galessa — December 21, 2006 @ 11:21 am
well, charlie is the main man on this site. but i am his partner in crime. i do the scanning, and suggesting of what gets posted (mostly…); he does all of the difficult stuff like straightening my scans, making the text legible, maintaining the site, and actually doing all of the posting. he’s quite modest though, so i thought i’d answer and tell you he is a super cool computer programmer. i am a dorky fashion designer/ artist. we are roommates and live together in California.
Comment by jinxdefenestrated — December 21, 2006 @ 4:45 pm
hi charlie and jinx:
after leaving the post I spent the whole hot like hell day browsing the files and I am astonished with the amount and quality of the work you two do. not only posting HR scans of so many interesting articles but typing the whole text!(is it OCR?) I wish I had such a capacity… not to mention programming skills.
It is a great generousity of you both to share this wonderful material I would never have access to.
I am a designer getting my masters degree doing a “plastics history” research and planning to go to US for a doctorate in the material culture field. tecnology history is specially appealling to me.
hope you guys just keep on doing your beautyful work in beautyfiyng this beautyful world that is alredy so pretty.
you will see me around from now on.
galessa (gerson lessa)
Comment by galessa — December 22, 2006 @ 4:49 am
yes, he does does OCR… but the mags are old, (and have really weird layouts and sometimes are just illegible)so he ends up having to proof read a great deal of it, and make sure there that everything is actually the correct text. i wish you great luck on “plastics history” i will certainly keep you 1st in mind whenever i find a plastic related article; and i will surely have charlie post it for you right away. we already have a tremendous love for anything that is made of plastic, (me especially) and he has posted quite a few articles already. i am going to even look in the next few days and see if there are any scanned articles that got left and post them for you. you sound very interesting, and it is very good to meet you
-Simone (jinx)
Comment by jinxdefenestrated — December 22, 2006 @ 11:34 pm
thank you so much. I have already found great stuff here and I am still looking. I’ve found even plastics related articles. but really scary was the note on global warmming in 1932! it sounds like doctor evil is live and kicking…
I had alresdy a pic of this english streamlined bike in my paper but this one shown here is much better.
thanks again!
galessa
glplastico@hotmail.com
Comment by galessa — December 24, 2006 @ 5:46 am