u/imthehink

r/KingOfTheHill r/Damnthatsinteresting r/tulsa

In 1982, Larry Walters tied 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and soared 16,000 feet into the air after his tether snapped. He drifted into the approach path of LAX, prompting stunned airline pilots to report a "guy in a lawn chair" floating through federal airspace.

Nothing has changed.....

Time travel to 1960s Tulsa OK. Street repairs at 25th & Harvard Ave angers drivers and merchants. Reporter Bob Brown does interviews at liquor store, drug store, and Trippett's Shoe Store about construction delays and mad customers.

Credit to Tulsa Films.

u/imthehink — 3 months ago