Kitchen of Tomorrow from 1943
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 11.24.08
It's Monday, so Google must have rolled out another new feature to waste our day. Now that I have made my email look prettier I can move on to their new picture gallery of thousands of shots from Life Magazine. One amazing set found by Laure at Dwell is a 1943 series of a kitchen-of-tomorrow exhibit taken by Time/Life's Nina Leen.
It has built in waffle irons and toasters, a kitchen sink operated by foot pedals decent storage for root vegetables and a great glass display of canned goods from the gardens, this is truly a kitchen of tomorrow today.
other Kitchens of the Future in TreeHugger:
1939: The Electric House of the Future
1957 Frigidaire Dream Kitchen of Tomorrow
what used to be my favorite, The Kitchen of the Future, 1967
But you have to watch Dream Kitchen, set to music.
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1967: A man has got to have his meat!
I saw quite a bit of this stuff on Tales of Future Past a few months ago. It's really quite interesting to see everything futurists predicted back then. Most of it never came about, and what did make it ended up being quite different from how the futurists imagined it. (For example, the personal computer combined a variety of functions that had been imagined as several different devices.)
And the best part is, futurists are still making predictions just as outrageous as the ones their grandfathers made! XD