notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

party outings 1964 front cover by smallritual on Flickr:

‘party’ here means a group of people. this is a book of suggestions for day trips to tourist destinations

Housing in towers, a 1964 proposal by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao for Harlem in upper Manhattan.

(I’ve seen the proposal for a dome over Manhattan, but these cooling-tower like structures are new to me.)

Margaret Calvert’s classic UK “children crossing” roadsign, from the Guardian’s gallery for the new exhibition, Celebrating in style: British Design at the V&A, London.

Buzz Aldrin and Ted Freeman. (via, via)

This looks like it was taken in October 1964:

On Friday, October 30, Ted Freeman and Buzz Aldrin were engaged in a little public affairs activity for NASA, demonstrating their spacesuits and a mock-up of the Gemini spacecraft for a few members of the press.

However, Freeman would never fly a Gemini mission:

On October 31, 1964, Theodore Freeman was killed when a goose smashed through the cockpit canopy of his T-38 Talon jet trainer. Flying shards of Plexiglas entered the jet engine intake and caused the engine to flameout. Freeman ejected from the stricken aircraft, but was too close to the ground for his parachute to open properly.

Buzz Aldrin went on to be the second man on the Moon.

(via hammerandcode)

berkeley nuclear power station by smallritual on Flickr.

Apparently, “only the sealed reactor core [is] left now”.

A NASA mockup of the lunar module from 1964. It’s reasonably similar to the finished article.

(via hammerandcode)

Front Of New York World’s Fair Guide (via glen.h)