{"id":1487,"date":"2010-04-04T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2010-04-04T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:27:26","slug":"cruising-into-the-future-that-was-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Cruising into the Future that Was Not"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Navy airship Macon<\/i> over San Francisco, c. 1933<\/p><\/div>\n

When I was about eleven, I went through a period of fascination with dirigibles (rigid airships). What technology could be more emblematic of futures that never were?<\/p>\n

The photo above comes from a site devoted to photos of the US Navy’s Macon<\/em><\/a>, which was based at Moffett Field<\/a> on the San Francisco Peninsula in the early 1930s.<\/p>\n

It is rare to see pictures of the interior: the bridge, the sick bay, the sailors’ bunks. (The Macon<\/em> crashed off Big Sur in 1935<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

It’s still possible to tour the California coast by airship<\/a>. I should do that some time.<\/p>\n

(Via Roberta X<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was about eleven, I went through a period of fascination with dirigibles (rigid airships). What technology could be more emblematic of futures that never were? The photo above comes from a site devoted to photos of the US Navy’s Macon, which was based at Moffett Field on the San Francisco Peninsula in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,119],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-future"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-nZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1214,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1214","url_meta":{"origin":1487,"position":0},"title":"Did a ‘Pagan’ Bury the Staffordshire Hoard?","author":"Chas S. 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