Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYStau, 1956
Stars and Stripes
September 16, 2017
Red Grandy ©Stars and StripesWest Germany, August, 1956: The German word for a traffic jam is "stau," but drivers caught in this eight-mile-long mess on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn probably used some much more colorful language to describe it. The midsummer nightmare was caused by construction that caused the blocking off of a section of the southbound lane.