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Kids in a mini-monorail inside a department store, Philadelphia, USA, 1950s (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] skyfaller@jawns.club 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@PugJesus This appears to be in Atlanta, GA, not Philadelphia? https://www.npr.org/2008/12/24/98524579/atlantas-pink-pig-brightens-spirits-55-years-on

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Nah, the one in OP's picture is almost certainly a different one. There's no reason Atlanta's Pink Pig would've ever had "John H-[scribble] Rocket Express" written on the side of it.

Also, it seems unlikely that a department store would install something completely unique (especially one in some random second-tier city like Philly or Atlanta), so surely more than one of these things existed at some point.