Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport became internationally known as the terminus for ‘Operation Vittles‘ better known as the Berlin Airlift. For 11 months USAF C-47 Skytrains flew food and supplies into Tempelhof in flagrant disregard of the Soviet Union’s attempt to isolate the divided German city.
Once the C-47s were on the ground, they were no doubt guided to their destination by a car like the Volkswagen above which was specially fitted with signs, spot lights, and an amazing panoramic rear window to ensure that the guide didn’t lose his follower.
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That is a fascinating Type 1. I love that the fellow in the car is doing the old “cellular drape”, where you make a conspicuous display of your car phone. This was popular in the halcyon days of the 1980s, when car phones were just becoming within reach of plebians and poseurs.
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What is this picture series of yours? I think I lost the start. 🙂
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Isn’t there one of those pictures with jazz trumpeter Al Hirt in it?
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Louis Armstrong and Pete Fountain, too.
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Years ago a friend in college got a postcard from another friend who was visiting New Orleans that looked something like this:
Not this exact picture, but it was the Blue Dog in a swamp. The most famous motif of a Louisiana artist named George Rodrigue, the dog is based on a Cajun ghost legend mixed with an ugly dog Rodrigue had owned.
Blew my mind, and I almost stole that postcard. It was like a ghost from inside of my head stepped out and stared at me, a ghost I’d always known was there but had never seen and when I saw it I recognized it instantly.
Anyway, from an art appreciation point of view, just wanted to share some really amazing paintings from a fantastic artist.-
Cool!
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You’re telling me they had memes before the internet?
That sounds like one of them internet hoaxes.
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The “raisin bombers”, as they were also known, are essential to the ongoing deep relationship between Germany and the US. The effort is so crazy, the logistics mind-blowing – we’re talking up to 1400 planes per 24 hours! – that it would be a challenge today. Yet, this happened more or less right after the most devastating war in history. I don’t think it will ever be forgotten.
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And there are probably still plenty of Germans who were children then, that remember the Hershey bars falling from the sky, dropped by the pilots.
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Imagine what one of those VWs would be worth today. I wonder if any still exist?
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Berlin Tempelhof Airport (which closed in 2008) will host the German round of Formula E on May 23.
http://berlin.fiaformulae.com/en/guides/circuit-guide.aspx
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