This 50s ad is adorable. It’s also depressing.

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Three interesting things:

1. This predicts the Internet – all library books, all the time! Available for homework purposes only, of course. None of those smutty novels for you, little Jimmy and Susie!

2. This also assumes that as soon as there’s a big enough electricity grid, of course we’ll switch to electric, because why wouldn’t we?

There’s nothing quite so disheartening as vintage looks at our hopes for the future, you know?

3. Basset hounds: the official dog of the future. Apparently this is a spaniel? With enormous jowls? Also with no back legs. Floating lumps: the official dog of the future? WHAT FRESH HORRORS AWAIT US?

ETA: Those slats above the patio are driving me NUTS. Just enough cover to have to wash it off all the time when the bugs build nests in it, but not enough to provide any actual shade!

(via Vintage Ads)