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Pole sitting gave kids in the 1920s a way to reach new heights.

Nearly a century before David Blaine stood atop a 100-foot pole for 35 hours in New York's Bryant Park, kids in rural America were finding perches on neighborhood telephones poles.

The fad was popular from the mid- to late-1920s and ended at the start of the Great Depression. Kids would construct seats at the tops of the poles and challenge their friends to see who could stay up there the longest.

Some of the most die-hard pole-sitters (whose mothers evidently did not scream at them to get down), could last more than a day or two.

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