V2: a pictorial ode to obsolescence

mudlarks

Everyone use to wear hats...

The man who ended hats as a standard fashion accessory for men

There's a Mongol horde above!

I never knew that! Are you serious?

Old chess clock???

It is trysts . 

I heard it a long time ago. Hat makers were aghast that the president elect showed up bare-headed (note the crowd of old guys behind him) and hat sales drifted downward, I guess until Indiana Jones.

This was said in US Television in 1967:

"Technology is opening a new world of leisure time. One government report projects that by the year 2000, the United States will have a 30-hour work week and month-long vacations as the rule."

I'm learning a lot from this thread:)

Here's a better angle

We used to have such a beautiful future.

"Those who hunger for time off from work may take heart from the forecast of political scientist Sebastian de Grazia that the average work week, by the year 2000, will average 31 hours, and perhaps as few as 21. Twenty years later, on-the-job hours may have dwindled to 26, or even 16."

Don´t worry Dr. Spudnik, in only 6 more years US citizens will work only 26 hours per week, maybe even 16.

AP Report from 1950:

"It's a good bet, too, that by the end of the century many government plans now avoided as forms of socialism will be accepted as commonplace. Who in 1900 thought that by mid-century there would be government-regulated pensions and a work week limited to 40 hours? A minimum wage, child labor curbs and unemployment compensation?

So tell your children not to be surprised if the year 2000 finds 35 or even a 20-hour work week fixed by law."