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Originally Posted by kool maudit
The audacity of the '70s giants. You gotta love it.
It was like a hard slap back from the '60s military-industrial technocracy after it all got weird for a minute.
Like "no it all still works we're knocking down a landmark block to build a vague prism the size of God".
It's one of those things where it might not have been for the best, but it had a purity of vision and the force of spite.
Helps you understand the time.
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And somehow, PANAM signifies this audacity more than the carriers of today. Just like how the bad assed Pan Am building in New York loomed over Park Avenue in a way that is somehow not as imposing now that it is Met Life.
It may have been brutish, it may have been overpowering. But this image from National Geographic, as much as any other, kindled my fascination with skyscrapers and New York City.
natgeo
but I digress, as this is the 60s, not the 70s. Don Draper-land. The New York City of cigarettes and noon-hour martinis. the 60s were so glamorous in certain respects. I certainly like the image of Margot Robbie as a flight attendant.