While putting around the interwebz looking for something else, I came across this photo of a US military airman on the Air Force base in Okinawa Japan circa 1956. A lot of scooters moved around the world with US servicemen. It seems that scooters were a convenient way to get around the base, and were also easily portable with personal effects. Many an odd-ball scooter made it back to the US this way. Check out the site to get a glimpse of what like was life was like in the military in the golden years just before Vietnam.
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