Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 150, click here.
1. “Human Fly” George Willig scales the exterior of the World Trade Center’s South Tower in 1977.
Completing the climb in 3.5 hours, he was arrested at the top after signing several autographs and was fined $1.10 by the city, a penny for each floor he passed.
2. Mother and children during the great depression, California, 1936.
3. The New York Central Streamliner “Mercury” passes through New York City Hall, 1936.
4. Shabbat service, lead by Rabbi Herschel Schacter, for the newly liberated inmates of Buchenwald, 1945.
5. Mullen’s Alley, Cherry Hill, New York, 1888.
6. A man selling mummies in Cairo, Egypt, 1875.
Photo by Félix Bonfils.
7. Swiss guides on Canadian Pacific Rd, 1913.
8. Batgirl, Yvonne Craig, circa 1960s.
9. Desperation French soldiers hurl rocks at advancing German soldiers from their Hillside trench, Vosges, 1916.
10. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with the Apple-1 computer, Apple’s first product, April 1976.
The disney cafeteria one is a repost.