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Mystery Illustration 95
What type of craft was host to these scenes? Luxury railroad car perhaps? Ocean liner? What's your guess?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 05, 2020 -
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Category: Travel, 1920s
Turnpike Toll Gun
Introduced circa 1962 by Lyman Metal Products, the Turnpike Toll Gun allowed drivers to shoot quarters and nickels into toll baskets. I imagine that, nowadays, whipping one of these things out at a toll booth could get you in trouble. But it's still possible to pick one up on eBay if you gotta have one.
Source: airgunenthusiast.com
Cedar Rapids Gazette - Nov 4, 1965
Spokane Chronicle - Jan 23, 1963
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 22, 2020 -
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Category: Guns, Money, Travel
Ostrich Carts
Why these never caught on, I couldn't imagine.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 04, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Travel, 1910s
Life preserver suitcase
Just imagine if everyone on the Titanic had had one of these! (I'm guessing it must have been inspired by that disaster).
The Kiowa Journal - Oct 7, 1915
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 22, 2018 -
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Category: Boats, Inventions, Travel, 1910s
Extra Milers
The Extra Miler Club is a group of people whose goal is to visit every county (and equivalent jurisdiction) in every state of the United States. That's 3,143 counties. Indian reservations don't count, although some visit them anyway. Parishes do count, as do independent cities.If you finish the goal, you're called a "county completer." Only 51 people have joined this elite group, and they're all listed here.
More info: boston.com
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 09, 2017 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Hobbies and DIY, Travel, Collectors
See-Through Luggage
Sold by Crumpler for AU$745 (about $564).If you buy this, it seems like it would be almost a crime not to pack something weird inside it, such as an inflatable love doll.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 01, 2016 -
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Category: Travel
African Pygmy Thrills
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 27, 2015 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Stereotypes and Cliches, Travel, 1930s, Africa
Before the TSA
German travelers in the 1950s complained that beautiful women were routinely being singled out for strip searches by guards at border crossings. The pretext for these searches was usually something trivial, such as a few Swiss francs undeclared. Sounds like the TSA learned some lessons from these guys.Source: The Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Dec 6, 1951
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 22, 2015 -
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Category: Government, Officials, Travel, 1950s
Man in a hydrobubble
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 07, 2014 -
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Category: Sports, Travel
Tokyo Compression
Photographer Michael Wolf took a series of photos he calls "Tokyo Compression" showing commuters in the Tokyo subway during rush hour.The Southern California version of this would be thousands of people sitting alone in cars on the freeway, going nowhere.
[via World's Best Ever]
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 27, 2014 -
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Category: Photography and Photographers, Travel
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