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To highlight technological progress and interest young people in science and engineering, GM inaugurated its annual traveling "Parade of Progress" exhibit in 1936, with a caravan of specially designed buses taking the educational exhibit across the U.S.

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My mom, dad, brother and I viewed the various exhibits, in Duluth’s Leif Erickson Park, with wide-eyed amazement at the predictions of the future in full form reality. Freeway overpasses; Cars and buses moving at high speed on wide highways; Living rooms with "The News of Tomorrow" depicting a scrolling newspaper on a screen in a box; Airplanes flying at never before seen speeds! Everyone was in total awe!

General Motors published this pamphlet as an introduction to the Parade of Progress. Click here to view the entire "Parade of Progress" publication.