#atomic age

How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the domestic ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation. Read more. 

Learn the Facts of the Atomic Age (National Committee on Atomic Information)

(Thomas McAvoy. 1947)

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Weegee, Boy Meets Girl-from Mars", New York,1955

ATOMIC CALIFORNIA

Happy and proud to have a story up at travel & photography site RoadsAndKingdoms.com, illustrated lavishly by photos from Bradley Garrett, Joel Childers, and myself.

3000 word feature on a 2400 miles of tearing hell round the desert in pursuit of mushroom clouds, magic rituals, and failed utopias.

“That this trip opened with an echo of the bomb was only too appropriate. Parsons’ life blended science and magic, utopia and destruction—not as conflicting philosophies but facets of a greater whole, a thrilling yet knowable universe that man could systematically control. In this vast ambition, there seemed no one more Californian.”

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The story continues: part II, The Ghost Grid of California City.

For an introduction to Jack Parsons, you want the George Pendel biography ‘Strange Angel’ - or his essay 'The Last Of The Magicians’ in VICE.

For more detail on the Babalon Working ritual, read Strange Suppers & Spells Diverse by Peter Grey, from a talk at Treadwell’s Bookshop on 2nd October 2015, celebrating Jack Parsons’ 101st birthday.

Ed Valigursky.

Here are some of my pictures of a still functioning Mold a Rama located at the Lincoln Park Zoo on Chicago, @vintagegeekculture originally shared a similar one.

Future Shopping.  Source Unknown (tried to google image search), if anyone has any more info on it.

Santa masks.  Creepy.

Dean Martin Christmas Show 1968

Soviet futuristic city art.  1960s.

Chelsey Bonestell - “Exploration of Mars” (1956)

Chelsey Bonestell - “Conquest of Space” (1949)

Oakland.

operation crossroads

November–December 1954. Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub comic book, issue #3