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General Motors Powerama 1955

GM's Powerama: The forgotten 1955 Chicago spectacle where General Motors spent $82 million to make 35-ton bulldozers dance the mambo, lose to elephants, and showcase a bizarre, futuristic vision of American progress.

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Talus Slope Through Aspen and Conifer, Rocky Mountains, 1950s

Somebody with a camera and an airplane seat in the 1950s pointed the lens straight down at a mountainside and got exactly what a geologist would want and what a

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AA-2026-AB8FA1 · Rocky Mountains, western United States · 1950–1959