Spring is on the road!

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This is a picture that can only be made  in in Holland. We should say 'that only could'  as these flower draperies for the car are not sod any longer. Probably has to do with safety regulations and maybe even more with cars being too fast nowadays. In the fifties it was a very common thing to show that you had visited the tulip fields by fixing the above pictured garlands ( priced around Dfl 10, or GBP 2 in that time) in V-shape on top of the bonnet . Speeds over 40 mph would tear of the flowers, but highways were very scarce and people were not in a hurry. At least not in the weekend. Vaguely I remember that the garlands would last for one or two days. Those were the days. 

(photo & postcard courtesy Horwitz collection)

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