It's always a hoot to look through old issues of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science, and with Google Books you can now do just that! But what do you get if you mix an eternally medieval city with eternally hopeful futurists? You get these mags' interesting take on Venice! Through their pages, you see the 20th century slowly but surely arrive to the canal city (or not, as sometimes the case may be...)As you can see from the pictures, the articles ranged from the ridiculous (at left) to the strangely poignant from World War I below.
For more on Vintage Venice, see my post over at Metafilter...
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