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D600-5
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- 1935-08 (Creation)
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Twenty three year old Tom Vitos poses for the camera after losing a bet that he and fellow adventurer nineteen year old Graham Ring could survive for 30 days in the Olympic Mountain region dressed only in trunks and tennis shoes and armed with knives, fishing line and an automatic lighter. Vitos had long toyed with the idea of living like a savage and was discussing the idea with Ring in the Oakland Drug Store, located at 3852 Center St. The proprietor and druggist William Rast overheard and wagered Vitos $200 against 100 days as a laborer on Rast's new house that the pair could not survive until September 7th in the wild. The two left August 7th for the Olympic region and returned cold and hungry after eight days in the wilderness to admit defeat. Although not Tarzans, both men were adventurers. Vitos had travelled all over the world on tramp steamers and Ring had ridden all over the US on freight cars. (TDL 8/8/1935, pg. 3; TDL 8/16/1935)
Vitos, Tom; Wagers;