“The setting sun all mistook for dawn.” — Victor Hugo

“People assumed the future would always be newer and better, so yesterday’s future was disposable.” — ChatGPT

(1) Final Days of an Icon: Charles de Gaulle (YouTube)

(2) Khrushchev, Castro, and John F. Kennedy at Disneyland (1962)

(3) Disneyland’s Short-Lived Monorail Precursor: The Viewliner (1957) (YouTube)

“The fastest miniature train in the world.”

(4) A quote from God and the New Haven Railroad and Why Neither One is Doing Very Well by George Dennis O’Brien:

“Even if we never arrive, we are sure to find interesting things on the way. Ponce de Leon wanted to find the Fountain of Youth and found Miami Beach instead.”

(5) Aerotrain Logo

(6) 80 Years Later: Music from the 1939 New York World’s Fair (LOC: Blogs)

(6a) Rising Tide by William Grant Still (YouTube)