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- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
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Joe Blow: 1936
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.
The world's largest whoopee cushion
Meant for the Jolly Green Giant
Inhale, not exhale
I think you all have it wrong. The gentleman is getting ready to voice the next Mickey Mouse feature. He's inhaling helium.
Watson - Come lie on this!
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.
My grandfather used to play one.
It's a rare contrabass bolognaphone.
Sometime Long Ago
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.
Shoulda Never Attempted It
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.
His name is Frank
And he is getting the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile v 0.8 ready to roll.
Was he a pioneer of balloon modelling ?
I remember being entertained as a youngster, in the fifties, by balloon poodle creators.
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