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#7 The “Human Fly” climbing the World Tower on the corner of Beatty and West Pender in Vancouver, 1918.

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The “Human Fly” climbing the World Tower on the corner of Beatty and West Pender in Vancouver, 1918.

Harry Gardiner: The First Human Fly Who Climbed Skyscrapers from the Ground in the early 20th Century

#7 The “Human Fly” climbing the World Tower on the corner of Beatty and West Pender in Vancouver, 1918.

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←#6 Harry Gardiner scales the 17-storey Vancouver World Building (later known as the Sun Tower) at the corner of Pender and Cambie in front of a crowd.
#8 A huge crowd on Pender Street gathered to watch Gardiner not fall to his death.→

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