Interesting Vintage Photographs Capture Models Demonstrating the Aqua Bobber in the Summer of 1961

In the summer of 1961, LIFE photographer Francis Miller captured the spectacle appears to be some kind of publicity stunt for the “Aqua Bobber Co.”– the manufacturer of swimmer’s floaties? A google of the company today suggests only that. This inexplicable bobber seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of bobbing buxom babes in bikinis around to the amusement of the passing crowd...

(Photos by Francis Miller/LIFE Magazine, via Messy Nessy Chic)