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1981: “Spider Dan” Goodwin scaled the Sears Tower, which was then the world’s tallest building. At least 200 people showed up ...
A party atmosphere prevailed as a Memorial Day crowd watched Dan Goodwin climb the Sears Tower on May 25, 1981. “We’re just nursing a hangover. We didn’t have anything else to do,” said ...
Thirty-three years ago, when daredevil Dan "Spider-Dan" Goodwin climbed the then-Sears Tower and John Hancock Center, the city sent him to jail and nearly killed him. On a chilly Veterans Day of ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) The man known as "Spider Dan," who police say scaled a 58-story San Francisco skyscraper Monday and unfurled an American flag at the top, has been cited for public nuisance ...
The climber, who identified himself in a flyer as Dan Goodwin, a.k.a. SpiderDan, was greeted by police as he reached a balcony two floors below the top of the 60-story Millennium Tower at 301 ...
A San Francisco Superior Court jury found the daredevil climber, a.k.a. Dan Goodwin of Marin County, guilty of two misdemeanors for his attention-grabbing ascent of the 60-story Millennium Tower ...
Daniel Goodwin, the chairman and CEO of Inland Real ... began rehabbing houses as moonlighting schoolteachers. "I think Dan picked people — I don't want to get too religious about it — like ...
At least 200 people showed up to watch the 25-year-old Goodwin, clad in a blue-and-orange suit, scale the west side of the building using suction cups and a “home-welded claw,” the Tribune ...
It’s still the deadliest passenger airline accident on U.S. soil. 1981: “Spider Dan” Goodwin scaled the Sears Tower, which was then the world’s tallest building. At least 200 people showed ...