1959 ultra-modern house, with gadgets of convenience that allow you to enjoy all things futuristic, such as album turntables and tube tvs.
They had a lot right, but couldn’t foresee more modern gadgetry beyond what they currently enjoyed.
It would be like sinking lots of dough into developing an automatic typewriter cleaner.
Kind of like the world of 2020 in Blade Runner; no cell phones, but everyone has flying cars! WTF happened?
But at the end of the day you still have to wipe your own backside.
The more things change……
Record player. Ha, told you so.
Live Better Electrically – 1961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1_KjEQgo4
Yes, in the future a woman knows her place, and the men always wear neckties to casual get togethers. Swank jetsons furniture too!
There’s so much right about this video including the young lad packin’ heat inside the house and with visitors to boot ….. and nobody ran out screaming in fear about it either. And even a library of sorts and a beginner’s work shop for the kids to learn some useful skills including the little girl.
These days, the gender police would have been all offended to the point of “literally shaking” over the ladies showing off the laundry room and kitchen (except for dad using the electric grill) while the men looked over the “sciency” stuff. Funny how the technology has blossomed since then while morality along with the overall society has pretty much collapsed into rot.
Yes there was a lack of foresight. Think of all the money Westinghouse could have made if, instead of the entertainment room with large screen, they came up with life size holograms for drag queen story time, eliminating library visits.
I had to watch again to see young lad packin heat! yes after 11:30
I’ve seen some of these toys in museums!
@ecp Don’t need a hologram to eliminate trips to the library for drag queen Story time, you can watch Michele Obama reading kiddie books on PBS now
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michelle-obama-launches-online-reading-series-kids-1290940
And the best surprise is the electric bill at the end of the month!
WHAT-A-DUMP!
I know that in today’s dollars, that place cost about $1 Million, but if I walked into a house that had cheap plastic chairs, Home Depot paneling on the walls, flimsy sofa’s with barely 2 inches of padding, microfilm? Records? What is this a trailer park?
Ah, just kidding, we’re spoiled rotten…
My friend has enough solar panel power to charge his electric cars and he sells energy back to the electric company. He pays nothing for energy, even driving to work.
Don’t look at the technology being portrayed and compare it to today, look at the values being portrayed and compare them to today.
That’s where they got it totally wrong about the direction we would take.
A few load centers full of 50Amp breakers… natural gas was still cheaper than electricity back then!
Whut… no Black robotz???
Laugh all ya want. I’m still cooking on this.
https://imgur.com/3q53Gnp
Mine is Avocado green to boot.
^^^ Yes, but what about the rest of the house?
A legit question because there are all electric neighbor hoods and cluster homes.
The Flintstones have come a long way.
so the lady opens her refrigerator and discovers a chipmunk reclining within, shocked she asks “what are you doing?”. the chipmunk asks “isn’t this a westinghouse?”, to which the woman proudly states “why yes it is”. The chipmunk then says “so, I’m westing.”…….
^^^ I think that was Elmer Fudd.
Gotta admire their business model… sell turbine-generator sets and transformers to produce electricity, sell electric appliances to create demand.
Best part; Women dressed up including heels and no tats, pierced faces or big humongous butts.
Notice the balalaika on the wall?
SOVIET SPIES!!!!
“Sterile lamps kill airborne bacteria” @ 1:24.
Wow, they predicted COVID-19.
Uuuh, I’ll take a gas cook top anyday!
That said that, it was a great commercial advertisement, at the time, for Westinghouse…