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This piece is called "HobbyPop RoadShop" by Bruce McCall, from ~1957, from the book The Last Dream-o-Rama. Or so my research suggests. And of course, this post certainly doubles as a 'retro-futurism' posting, as well.
Another view:
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Draft-5f307c0c16ab2__880.jpg
(unfortunately, that double-underscore ("__") in the URL seems incompatible with PF's image-insertion mode, or maybe I'm doing it wrong?)
Anyway, here's a fun mini-article going in to more detail:
https://paleofuture.com/blog/2007/11/26/cars-detroit-forgot-to-build-1950-1960.html
Drive safe out there!
Many things are possible in life, altho as both the founder and content-creator of a 3yr FV-project already, plus a regular contributor to half-a-dozen other communities, at this point I'm more interested in turning any stray efforts of mine and others upon a group pledge-posting project.
I did breach this topic a month ago, and have been kind of gathering resources upon the next step, since then: https://piefed.social/c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip/p/2030925/a-couple-quick-thoughts-on-sustaining-faltering-communities