SUGAR SMACKS SPACE AGE MODELS

 

This is a neat short about the space age cereal models by enthusiast Cerealmad I found on You Tube.

Have you got these models?

SPACE AGE VACUUM CLEANERS

Hi

Here is a circular vacuum cleaner - it turned out to be the Hoover Constellation, which goes all the way back to the 1950s. It seems I did get a few details wrong, such as the clear top, or was that a Dyson ?

We did not have one, but it is not something you can easily forget - I am sure I saw these advertised on TV, probably 1970s ? Here's a vintage TV ad, and a video from a vacuum cleaner collector.

Hoover Constellation vacuum cleaner 1962 TV commercial - YouTube

 

Retro Hoover Constellation 867A Floating Vacuum Cleaner Unboxing & First Look - YouTube

 

I am sure that when you established Moonbase Central you never dreamed you would one day be covering vacuum cleaners and rocking chairs.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

GENERATING INTEREST

Its half-term and I'm catching up on films. Just enjoying Captain America: the Winter Soldier. Besides the fabulous Helicarriers, which look amazingly like the SpaceX Nuclear Pulse, I was intrigued by a reference to the Greatest Generation.

Having not heard it before I looked it up. It was coined by Tom Brakow and describes the generation pf Americans which grew up during the Great Depression and went on to win World War II.

Comic book super soldier Captain America is supposedly part of the Greatest Generation, but as the term was only coined in 1998 this could be a reverse-anachronism! I will have to ask Bill.

Forgiving Brakow an over-zealous patriotism, for surely he meant the generation from all allied countries and not just the US, I am still fascinated by the labels given to entire sweeps of human kind.

I myself, according to Wikipedia, am part of the Baby Boomers, who apparently, consider ourselves 'special'. I'm not sure about that but do feel as though the 1960's were special and would prefer, if indeed we need a label at all, to be part of a space-age generation. But maybe this accolade belongs to the mid-to late 1950's. Dunno.

Whatever boffins might think, the events, pup culture and ethos of that decade did make me who I am today.

What do think about generations readers?