ARCO "PYRAMID" STATION?
Designed in 1964 by architect
Vincent Kling for the Atlantic Richfield Company,
the station was a well-known landmark at the corner
of U.S. Route 1 and State Road 23 in Bala
Cynwyd, Lower Merion Township, just outside
Philadelphia.
CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLE : http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/19-9/19-9-7.pdf
Korvettes? S.Klein's?
S. Klein was at The Roosevelt Mall (now Macys) and in Springfield (at 420 & 1, now Marshalls, Circut City & Filenes)
They were also briefly in Langhorne (which then became Topps and later I-95 Marketplace)
These photos are all I could find! (NYC & Newark,NJ)
BASCO Sign?
Venturi and Rauch's 1978 BASCO Showroom (the big alphabet sign) was a true decorated shed design. The shed existed long before 1978; it was NORMANDY MART, a precursor "big box" discount market. Normandy went out of business and within a couple of years BASCO bought the property. Venturi and Rauch simply painted the entire existing huge shed a dark blue and added a free-standing sign in huge letters spelling BASCO across the front facing the Roosevelt (12 green lanes of traffic) Boulevard (and across the boulevard from the local NABISCO plant whose big alphabet sign across the top of the plant's ten story production tower was already long a "landmark" on the boulevad). By 1998, BASCO then (adapted to) BEST was sitting derelict for almost a decade,
Edmund Scientific Corporation ?
Edmund's catalog and "Factory Store" in Barrington, New Jersey (with bins and shelves full of surplus and hard to find items which never made it into the catalogs) became a source for optical and mechanical parts useful in the field of amateur telescope making. A compilation of Edmunds earlier pamphlets published as the book "All About Telescopes" offered many designs for telescopes of all sizes and configurations (which of course directed the builder to the relative Edmund catalog part numbers needed for each design).
Edmunds catered to the 60's generation by expanding and highlighting their line of projectors, color wheels, black lights, filters, and other optical devices that could be used by rock bands and in psychedelic light shows. Other items that catered to the counterculture were eventually added to the catalog covering the fields of Biofeedback, ESP, Kirlian photography, Pyramid power, and alternative energy. In 1971, in the Whole Earth Catalog of items "relevant to independent education," Stewart Brand noted: "Edmund is the best source we know of for low-cost scientific gadgetry (including math and optics gear). [In this category,] many of the items we found independently... turned up in the Edmund catalog, so we were obliged to recommend that in this area we've been precluded." That is, the Edmund catalog was virtually a Whole Earth Catalog for items related to scientific fields.
Edmund Scientific optics traveled to the moon as part of the cameras and other equipment used by the Apollo 11 spacecraft in its historic lunar landing.
This was one of the "cool" places that I would often visit with my Dad!
Sponsors
PICTUREPHONE @ Franklin Institute?
(Mr. Spacely pays George Jetson a PICTUREPHONE call!)
(A scene from 2001)
Alexander Graham Bell introduced the telephone at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. By 1964 the Bell Telephone exhibit at the New York World’s Fair allowed anyone to try out the new “Picturephone.” "Picturephone" was a very cool part of the BELL TELEPHONE exhibit that was part of the permanent display at The Franklin Institue. It always held out the prospect for a Jetsons like future. Of course many things that were the stuff of science fiction then are science fact today. (Even "push button" phones were "the future" then!) I still want the flying car and Elroy's rocket belt!........
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