Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
August
31, 2004
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Munich, Germany,
July 7, 1961: City lantern ward Wilhelm Schuepfer
demonstrates how a gas street light is lit. Gas lights were installed
throughout the city in 1850, but by 1961 all but 713 of Munich's 41,000 street
lamps were powered by electricity. And many of the remaining antiques were set
to ignite automatically, leaving Schuepfer and the other gasanzuenderen. with little more than repair and maintenance
responsibilities.