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For a sec I thought that was MIB Headquarters
They weren’t just nicer. It was the service. Nowadays everything is a race to the bottom with a slick facade.
~~Wow. Beside the whole service thing, this photo is gorgeous. Looks like it was shot today.~~
Ah, crap I’m such an ass.
This is at least 2018 judging by some of the cars behind the glass.
Googie design was amazing. Useful, maybe not so much. Like anything else, I’d guess!
r/Mid_Century love right there
Asbestos wasn’t nice. Lead paint and leaded fuel wasn’t nice. Lack of seismic code wasn’t nice. Segregation wasn’t nice. CRT screens weren’t nice.
Some of the design was nice, though.
Can anyone identify the typeface used for ‘DEPARTS and ‘ARRIVES’?
There’s something to be said for a well regulated airline industry.
It wasn’t nicer. It was new with less people at the time.
Men in Black vibes. Or rather, MiB had TWA vibes, I guess.
Not taking into account every atom in this picture was marinated in years of cigarette smoke. No thanks.
I recognize this place as the cover for an album by The Jayhawks.
The Design was from a time when Designers didn’t worry about how long the repair and maintenance would take. Maintenance costs and Overhead didn’t figure into design. Today every design has to be optimized for short repair times and minimal maintenance. God forbid you have to pay someone to paint and repair stuff.
So where did we go wrong?
How is this nice??
Everything smelled like cigarette smoke.
JFK terminal 5 was just turned into a nice hotel
Show me the blueprints.
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I just unearthed a bunch of my parents old TWA swag from the 70s/80s. They met working at Philadelphia international. It was a completely different era back then.
Reminds me of the HQ in Men In Black
I would say unique vision of the future. Based on recent legal changes, ppl awesome things were ‘better’ in the past. That only normally applies to one group of ppl.
People who think “I wish air travel were more like it was back in the 60s” were either too young to be the ones paying for the flights or too wealthy to care.
What the fuck am I looking at
That’s the MiB office!
Lmao ok
Mib computer
Um this was during a time when only the rich could afford to travel by air at the time.
I intentionally booked a flight out of JFK so I could stay here for an evening. It’s a remarkable restoration and one of the more fun hotel experiences you can have, if you like that sort of thing.
That is a theme park take on those memories, not the actual thing.
I don’t miss the cars with about no safety feature, for instance.
I can smell this image