Thursday, April 9, 2026

The Future of Transportation!

Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938

 But hadn't we already eliminated Zeppelins a few years earlier?

6 comments:

JP said...

Wot! No bike ?

Dave said...

My great-grandpappy lost the family fortune investing in the Trans-Continental Tethered Zeppelin Line. Basically they were gonna cable airships to freight trains and pull them from New York to LA. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Anonymous said...

"...airships crashing every day into the bay..." (Be Bop Deluxe)

Bicycles are for the plebs, don'tcha know?

D.

Anonymous said...

A bike lane would be a start.

Mister G said...

That's not a lyric I could pull out of my head... 50 years old.

Mister G said...

Seemed workable... till the first tunnel.