Found this old short film today and found it quite interesting. http://mediawien-film.at/film/68/ It's an educational film produced by the City of Vienna in 1959. They talk in typical Viennese humour about the advantages of using public buses over having an expensive (American) car. The actors are famous Austrian comedians of the time. What I find so crazy are the cars in that junkyard - nearly all of them are US cars from the 40ies and 50ies. Mind you this is not a junkyard in USAmerica in 1959 but in Vienna during the Cold War, some 30 miles from the iron curtain and the Communist regimes. The Nash, baby Lincoln, Fords, Buick and so on... I am sure that junkyard is long gone, but if I only knew where it was located....
Do you still have junkyards with old cars in Austria. I know of two places in Wels but that's all I heard of. Here in Sweden they are nearly extinct due to environmental bureaucrats. I have tracked down a handful but one old abandoned was crushed a few months before I could locate it. Nobody wanted to tell the location because they were going to buy stuff from the land owner and the result was that everything went to the melters.
Older gentleman in the film looks like an Austrian Jimmy Durante. "Good night Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!"
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