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Walking the Plank
Submitted by DetroitScott on Fri, 03/17/2017 - 6:33pm.
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An obviously dedicated cigar smoker being rescued from his partially submerged car in Detroit from 1926. From an inherited collection of 4x5 glass negatives. View full size.
4.51" on August 17th, 1926.
Submitted by DoneThat on Sat, 06/24/2017 - 6:14pm.
Narrowing done the date to that of a major Detroit flood.
ref: https://weatherhistorian.blogspot.com/2014/08/new-record-day-rainfall-at...
What were they thinking?
Submitted by OTY on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 2:16pm.
I suspect that each of those young boys, while learning a lesson in gallantry and helping others, were really wishing that the rescued man would fall into the muddy water.
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