Smoke break
Mar 27, 2011
In 1917, guy by the name of Jug Reynolds was trying to make a living doing this sort of thing–standing on his hands on top of a chair on top of two tables on top of the cornice at the edge of the roof of Lansburgh's furniture store at 9th Street and F Street NW in Washington, D.C.
Note that Jug's helper out there on the roof had a cigarette in his mouth. All in a day's work.
The domed building in the background is the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.