“Diving Daredevil” Henri LaMothe celebrates his 70th birthday by jumping 40 feet off the Flatiron Building into 12 inches of water in 1974.
Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones entertain the crowd from a flatbed truck on Fifth Ave. between 11th and 12th St. in Manhattan in 1975.
George “Human Fly” Willig climbing the South Tower of the World Trade Center in 1977. Willig, a Queens native, climbed the tower in 3.5 hours.
Initially, New York City announced it would fine the mountain climber $250,000 for the “inconvenience,” but Mayor Abraham Beame only fined him $1.10, one cent for each of the skyscraper’s 110 stories.
Filming for the movie “The Godfather II” is pictured in Lower East Side in 1974, making it look the way it did in 1918.
Vintage cars and clothes have been produced and Hollywood experts have decided that E. 6th St., between Avenues B and C, is just the spot. They even managed to make the street look unpaved. But every once in a while, a hint of 1974 shows.
