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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Raygun Gothic @lemm.ee Paul Drye @lemm.ee Goodyear METEOR
Post Sputnik in 1957, Goodyear pushed an integrated set of rocket, spaceship, and space station designs, and continued to do so through the early 1960s until it became clear that NASA was going ahead with their own approach.
This image was printed in Missiles & Rockets magazine's March 1960 issue, so slightly outside our group timeframe. But the design itself is a bit earlier; this picture would have been by Goodyear themselves, sometime in 1958 or '59.
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Raygun Gothic @lemm.ee perishthethought @lemm.ee Buck Rogers Sonic Ray
Only $2.50
I like the uranium power chamber the most, I think.
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Raygun Gothic @lemm.ee perishthethought @lemm.ee "Invisible Helmet"
Ad from 1950s comic.
"Don't be disappointed. Send now!"
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Raygun Gothic @lemm.ee perishthethought @lemm.ee Getting your answers ... at electronic speed
IBM magazine ad from the 1950s with obligatory atomic art.
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Raygun Gothic @lemm.ee perishthethought @lemm.ee Rocket ahead with Oldsmobile
Magazine ad from the 1950s
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Raygun Gothic @lemm.ee perishthethought @lemm.ee We have come to visit you in peace
... and with goodwill.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
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Raygun Gothic @lemm.ee perishthethought @lemm.ee The Master Weed
Part of the Tit-Bits Science Fiction Library
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Raygun Gothic @lemm.ee perishthethought @lemm.ee Astounding Science Fiction, May 1957
What's eating you?