Last week, Gill sent in a comment on a post I did last year. It was a link to an old Popular Science Magazine, and I replied that I had looked through the entire issue. To which Gill responded as below:
Here are just a few or so… Like you I get caught up scrolling and seeing all kinds of stuff… Solar energy articles from the 30’s… gotta love it huh?
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Camping Trailer PM May 58 pg 149
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Utilizing All Trailer Space PM pt 137
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Curved Rafters made without glue PM pg 214
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Houses built of Reeds PM May 53 pg 144
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Build your own greenhouse PM May 56 pg 165
I hope you can just point folks to the site in general, there is so much lost DIY info there… I grew up knowing older guys that had mill in their garage, to have that skill..oh well. BTW it’s not just PM and PS magazines there… theres a crapload of others too.
Peace, Gill
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
There are some amazing articles and equally great ads in those 50's magazines. It makes one wonder if individual creativity and craftsmanship by the average Joe has disappeared in America and has been replaced by automation, mass production, credit and inflation. The ability of the WWII veterans to produce and repair his own electronics, furniture and mechanical gadgets in the day before Walmart and credit cards is very interesting. Maybe sending everyone to college was not always in our best interests.
Pretty cool. Sent the links on to many who will enjoy them.
Glad to share, glad to all who enjoyed them.
Gill