I cannot, for the life of me, remember where I've seen the reference to this event mentioned on DK, but I know I have. It just so happens that I found an article and have a picture of it. Pic below the fold...
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So, as I'm delivering a load of recycled paper to a plant somewhere in the Northeast, I spot an old copy of Oui Magazine from February 1975, and think to myself, oh, this is TOO good to go into recycling.
It's old and faded, as you might expect, and has some wonderful advertisements for things like state-of-the-art-for-1975 cassette players and turntables, a please-join-us coupon that you could send in to NORML (yes, THAT NORML, complete with an offer of a t-shirt for $4.50!) and a short blurb about Charles H. Keating, founder of Citizens for Decent Literature. Maybe I'll share that one with you some other time. It's just too delicious to keep to myself!
But also in its tattered pages was the above article. It was probably considered no big deal at the time, the nervous physicality of the feat notwithstanding. The towers were, what, two years old at that point?
It made me a bit misty-eyed when I saw it. A bit of history from a time when they couldn't possibly know what future lay in store for the WTC. They were just really tall buildings at the time, Russia hadn't invaded Afghanistan yet (I think), the Shah was still in power, Osama Bin Who? The Tali-what? Al-Qaeda? Is that a new Mexican restaurant downtown?
Anyway, somebody, somewhere on DK mentioned this event (not for the first time as I recall) and I just HAD to share this picture with you. Here's hoping that this is a useful, or at least interesting, bit of journalistic archaeology.