Ever feel like you missed out on some awesome era's?

"FalconHoon" (falconhoon) 11/07/2014 at 16:01 • Filed to: None

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Like the 30s aero-boat era

Or the 70s

davedave1111 > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:03

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And then you remember how bad everyone smelled, in the days before soap and showers were invented.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:04

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This needs to make a comeback immediately.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:05

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Yes, I would like to bring a taste of the 30s back also, Airship cruising. Think about it, just like cruise ships now, but in airships. They would have to be enormous to provide the same level of luxury one would receive on a Royal Carribean or Norwegian cruise

jariten1781 > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:11

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Nope, until my generation my family was all farmers. While there was a lot of cool stuff going on in the world, all I would have seen was dirt.

ACESandEIGHTS > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 11/07/2014 at 16:14

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Strange how the 1930s Hindenburg era of airships doomed the industry basically forever .

Not sure why it's never been kickstarted again. That would be immensely more interesting than a cruise.

There's probably a good reason for it being so mysterious and cool: we have no idea what it would have evolved into. Cruise ships evolved into The Love Boat and virus-filled poop cans that crash into reefs, get hijacked, have people murdered on them and generally annoy those who live on islands.

Cé hé sin > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 11/07/2014 at 16:15

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There are still a few flying!

For Sweden > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:17

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I'm good without polio

MonkeePuzzle > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:18

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or the 90s!!!

Cé hé sin > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:21

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The 30s were a good era. Would have been better with belts, crumple zones and the like though.

FalconHoon > For Sweden 11/07/2014 at 16:22

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Are you sure?

Cé hé sin > davedave1111 11/07/2014 at 16:22

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Soap has been around a very long time, baths likewise. Readily available hot water, not so much.

FalconHoon > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 11/07/2014 at 16:23

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For Sweden > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:27

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yes

davedave1111 > Cé hé sin 11/07/2014 at 16:27

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I was being a touch facetious there, old thing. Really, it's not anything new to be able to wash, that even existed in the thirties. It's our current habit of washing our whole body daily that's new.

The seventies must have been particularly bad, with all that polyester and no showers. By the way, for what it's worth I still remember my parents house-hunting in the early nineties, and most houses then didn't have a shower, just baths. And they were looking and nice houses, so if any had had them, those would.

As they used to say about Elizabeth I, she was the cleanest lady in the kingdom: she bathed twice a year, summer and winter, whether she needed to or not .

Cé hé sin > davedave1111 11/07/2014 at 16:34

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Indeed. I remember seeing a TV programme about the old hotel at St Pancras railway station. One of the reasons for its demise was as I recall that the rooms had almost all been built without en suite bathrooms and there were only a couple of public ones in the whole place.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > ACESandEIGHTS 11/07/2014 at 16:36

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So, we are in a funny situation. I am an "IDEAS" guy, meaning I come up with shit with no details or plan how to get it done. Do you want to be the business side? I find investors and engineers, you make literally everything else happen? K thanks, I will see you after I go deposit all of our money into secure bank accounts in Dubai. :-) Just kidding I am not motivated by money; only motivated by time to do whatever it is I want to do.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:37

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HAhaha, exactly this!!!!!

ttyymmnn > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 16:40

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I love how they envisioned those planes as flying boats. In fact, I believe many of the early fuselages were built by boatwrights.

This is one of my favorites, the Dornier 24 , though this restored example has been given modern engines. The Do 24 first flew in 1937, and served throughout WWII.

Will with a W8 races an E30 > Cé hé sin 11/07/2014 at 16:50

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A few actual roads and a little less great depression might help too.

jariten1781 > davedave1111 11/07/2014 at 16:52

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Huh? Showers have been pretty much standard in American floor plans since WWII.

Unless you're meaning stand-alone vs. bath showers...that's a style and floor space thing rather than a functional thing.

davedave1111 > jariten1781 11/07/2014 at 17:26

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No, I meant showers at all. They didn't spread to Europe until much later. You might get a showerhead on a bath, but even that was unusual. Whereas now some kind of stand-up shower, even if in the bathtub, is ubiquitous.

30 years ago, mixer taps on the bath were considered fancy.

davedave1111 > Cé hé sin 11/07/2014 at 17:27

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Sounds about right. It's now some posh flats, so they must have found room somewhere.

burntartichoke > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 17:31

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I could have owned this:

And driven it to see this:

Cé hé sin > davedave1111 11/07/2014 at 17:49

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Still a hotel too.

Book here

davedave1111 > Cé hé sin 11/07/2014 at 17:52

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I don't think I've ever been so drunk that I couldn't make it home from Kings Cross, so no need.

ranwhenparked > FalconHoon 11/07/2014 at 18:51

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There's a lot about the '30s I wish I had been around for - music, fashion, architecture, movies, cars, ships, planes,etc. But, then I remember Fascism, the Great Depression, and polio. My grandparents' families both did pretty good at the time, but a whole hell of a lot of people didn't.

FalconHoon > ranwhenparked 11/08/2014 at 00:18

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Well obviously this exercise in nostalgia requires everyone to wear rose coloured goggles.... Obviously.

ranwhenparked > FalconHoon 11/08/2014 at 00:25

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Well, yes, and in 80 years' time, everyone will be reflecting on how many horrible things happened in the 2010s too, every era has its goods and bads.

George McNally > FalconHoon 11/08/2014 at 19:00

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I was 18 in 1978......not a whole lot to recommend about 1978.

.....except this.

FalconHoon > George McNally 11/08/2014 at 19:28

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Guess it depends where you were.

Round headlight enthusiast > FalconHoon 11/09/2014 at 17:44

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30s: Yay! poverty! Dust Bowl!

70s: Yay! Richard Nixon! Mustang II! Disco!

FalconHoon > Round headlight enthusiast 11/09/2014 at 17:52

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Here put these on.