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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis thread's title is... Batman on an elephant
A man testing a prototype football helmet. 1912
A maintenance crew loads 5 megabytes of memory into a Pan am Aircraft. 1956
Members of the Seattle Tubing Society relax on a warm afternoon 1953
War orphaned Vietnamese babies are flown to LAX. April 12, 1975
Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank. 1950
A German soldier firing a gun from the back of his horse. 1939
Portable TV Concept 1967
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shenmue
(38,501 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)Adam West WAS batman. Fun set of photos, thanks.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)"I have no idea what he's talking about, so here's a picture of Batman riding an elephant."
underpants
(182,270 posts)underpants
(182,270 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,161 posts)all I can think of is brain damaged hamsters on an exercise wheel.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)That is apparently a thing that happened.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Fix The Stupid
(946 posts)underpants
(182,270 posts)Literally a passenger manifest of a totally unknown future. Amazing.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)did not want to take the responsibility of allowing these babies in to our country.
I started getting calls from the adoptive parents telling me that we had to get the babies out now that we could not wait for all the paperwork. I got on the phone to immigrations and told them this and they basically said it would be our (the Congressman) responsibility. I assume they were getting calls from other Congressmen as well. Anyhow they gave the plane permission to take off.
The story we got was that many of these babies were already being adopted and when the war started winding down the mothers literally brought the children to the base to pass them over the fence to be put on the plane. Don't know how true this was. But I do know that one of the nurses on that flight was my cousin. She never forgot that day.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)CrispyQ
(36,221 posts)Yavin4
(35,354 posts)Autumn
(44,743 posts)Rec for that one picture alone. I was a Batman fan back in the day, I don't know how I missed that. I am off to post that picture all over FB.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,161 posts)must be a teabagger who is allergic to tinfoil.
surrealAmerican
(11,339 posts)... but I can't tell which one that might be.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)underpants
(182,270 posts)Someone (probably the driver) had to be on the ground to take that pic. Drivers, from my Army time in a Bradley, tend to be the lowest ranking guy but I am not too sure about getting on the ground with bears. You can't just jump back into an armored vehicle.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)He could have pulled up there buttoned up so that he didn't have to jump back into the tank.
underpants
(182,270 posts)we tended to travel in pairs
Blanks
(4,835 posts)but it would be hard to resist a good picture.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,780 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)eh, Dobie?
treestar
(82,383 posts)The portable tv an idea that did not pan out.
ballabosh
(330 posts)Just really cracked me up.
underpants
(182,270 posts)I wonder if that is from the same testing that Colbert used in the intro to his "Spor Repor" - a guy in a similar helmet getting kicked in the head by someone wearing a leather football cleats
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)underpants
(182,270 posts)If that's the right word. People in the 50's were cool.