1913
The Wuppertal Schwebebahn or Wuppertal Floating Tram is a suspension railway in Wuppertal, Germany. It was built between 1897 and 1903 and opened in 1901. The Schwebebahn is still in use today as normal means of local public transport, moving 25 million passengers annually. It is the oldest elevated railway in the world.
1910
This ten-foot alligator gar was caught and photographed at Moon Lake in Mississippi in 1910.
Sept. 6, 1954
Santa Monica’s Muscle Beach crowds were treated to the show they have come to expect Labor Day weekend. DeForrest Most, 37, is bottommost in this typical pyramid pose that also includes Art Kidder, 37, and Sandra Hollabaugh, 14.
(via the book “Imagining Los Angeles: Photographs of a 20th Century City,” published by The LA Times in 2000. Credit: Bill Beebe / Los Angeles Times)
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February 12, 1954
12-year-old Muscle Beach ‘regular’, April Atkins, displays unusual strength as she supports four persons weighing a total of 633 pounds on her back.
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