FROM THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

Man in boat with binoculars: “Well, I’ll be danged! It *is* Akron, Ohio! Wonder how it got to the Riviera before we did.”

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  1. tom says:

    As they are looking up into the sky, it must be the Akron Blimp that they see, which often cruises around the Riviera. (Or the Riviera of Lake Erie, anyway.)

    • von Hindenburg says:

      One of the current fleet of Goodyear Blimps which, ironically, are not actually blimps, but semi-rigid airships produced by the Zeppelin company.

      Better yet, it could be USS Akron, a nearly-800ft long rigid airship, built in its namesake city and operated by the Navy in the 1930s.

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