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Washington, D.C., circa 1936. "NO CAPTION" is all it says here. Feel free to improvise in the Comments below! Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
Meant for the Jolly Green Giant
I think you all have it wrong. The gentleman is getting ready to voice the next Mickey Mouse feature. He's inhaling helium.
Eventually Joe Blow realized he didn't have to use his breath to fill his oversized balloon, not when the open end would fit over a fire hydrant valve. Sadly, it proved too heavy for a water balloon ... but it did became the prototype for a water bed.
It's a rare contrabass bolognaphone.
I remember a story or joke about a man blowing up a tire innertube. The finale or punch-line escapes me at this very late date.
Joe's career as a balloon animal sculptor was tragically cut short when he attempted creating a life-size brontosaurus neck and died of hypoxemia.
And he is getting the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile v 0.8 ready to roll.
I remember being entertained as a youngster, in the fifties, by balloon poodle creators.
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