Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
July
6, 2009
Red Grandy ©Stars
and Stripes
Munich, Germany, July, 1961:
Wilhelm Schuepfer maintains the flame on one of Munich's few remaining gas
street lights. Only 713 of the city's 41,000 lights were still gas-powered in
1961, marking Schuepfer and the other gasanzuenderen
(lantern wards) as members of a vanishing breed.