Monday
Apr092007
Undersea Cities (1954)
Monday, April 9, 2007 at 12:58AM 
Rather than a floating city, today we have an image of undersea cities from the book Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future.
The book says that the image was published on the cover of if magazine in January of 1954. The most perplexing choice of the artist is why some of the "undersea cars" are driving on the ocean floor. It doesn't seem very practical but I'm sure that it helped 1950s audiences picture such an environment as familiar or more desirable.
See also:
Sea City 2000 (1979)
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Reader Comments (2)
When I was a kid, there was a Saturday morning cartoon called "Jabberjaw", featuring an intelligent, air-and-water-breathing shark that travelled with a tennage band in a swimming aqua-car in the mid-2070's (they mentioned the "Tricentennial", implying that most of the sea colonies were American).
They travelled from seadome to seadome, rocking out - I don't remember if they ever went up on the land but it was still presumably there.
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