Raygun Gothic refers to any creative work from 1900 through about 1959, predicting the future before it became possible. Think rockets and rayguns, flying cars and futuristic cities - especially if the vision never quite panned out in reality. We find this aesthetic in product design, book covers, films, radio & TV. "A tomorrow that never was". The same style as in the Fallout games, The Jetsons and so on but focused on the time period through the 50s.
See also: Raygun Gothic at TVTropes
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A 40-ft-tall rocket ship glimmers in the sunlight on the rare occasion that the San Francisco fog allows it, and against the backdrop of the waterfront and the majestic Bay Bridge, this retro-futuristic icon is the jewel of Pier 14.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/raygun-gothic-rocket-ship
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Via this blog post:
https://www.thedisneyclassics.com/blog/tomorrowland-and-frontierland-restaurants
Related postcard:
Volume 3, number 5. August 1928
The magazine is here:
https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v03n05_1928-08_ATLPM-Urf/page/n1/mode/2up
The Chevrolet Corvette (C2) is the second-generation Corvette sports car, produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors (GM) for the 1963 through 1967 model years.
Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the Eagle comic series Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in reprints), and dramatised seven times a week on Radio Luxembourg (1951–1956).
From Amazing Stories magazine, 1944 vol 18, no 1.
Found it:
https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v18n01_1944-01_cape1736
Science Fiction magazine volume 1, number 1 - March 1950.
https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Plus_v01n01_1953-03_Gorgon776
