MSNBC ran a story yesterday about a new exhibit opening tomorrow at the Lost Highways Archive & Research Library in Philadelphia. While researching automotive art, curator Todd Kimmell discovered a cache of artwork by a once-renowned advertising illustrator named A.C. Radebaugh, who worked from the 30s through the 50s. Radebaugh was a bit of a technologist as well, so when photography began to replace illustrations in advertising in the 50s, Radebaugh turned his hand to newspaper and magazine features about the world of the future. The images in this exhibit, which are viewable online, reflect the optimistic sense of the future we once had in a wonderfully naive time, unmarked by concerns of overpopulation or environmental destruction, when fears of nuclear holocaust had been temporarily quelled by Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program. Shiny metal towers would reach to the clouds, gleaming roads would arc through the sky and a personal helicopter could be found in everyone’s garage.