For those interested parties, here's a few links from NY discoveries and rediscoveries. Galison Mudpuppy, publishers and toymakers.Kinokuniya, Japanese Bookstore 1073 Avenue of the Americas (6th, between 40th and 41st St), New York, NY 10018 Website is here, but, alas, in Japanese.
This video (8 minutes, embedded into html, not youtube) combines all of my current interests: retro futurism, highway design, illustration and tourism. (I know, but whatever. You have yours, I have mine.) Very amazing. Despite your feelings/ambivalence toward the Disney megacorp, in 1958, this was groundbreaking. It's also full of optimism for the future, which we could use more of today.