Oct 08
Vienna Traffic Cops
Posted by Chris Overstreet on Wednesday, 8 Oct 2008 under Austria, Military & Government, Real Photo Postcards
Ve haff vays of makink you pull over.
I love Captain Cool, center, and his squad of traffic goons in this RPPC from 1949. The back of the card doesn’t have any identifiable markings from the manufacturer, but someone was kind enough to make notes for me:
Yeah, we ride Harleys.
Unfortunately, the only German that I can translate from this is “Harley-Davidson”.
Lest you think that these aren’t enough cops to manage all of the traffic violators in Vienna, not to worry; their numbers would more than double by 1950:
Missing: the other photo where they all turn around to show that their leather pants are assless