Mayor Edward I. Koch, left, campaigning for the mayoral election, shakes hands with Muhammed Alam Channa, the “World’s Tallest Man,” during the Pakistan Independence Day Parade on Sunday, August 25, 1985 in New York. An unidentified parade official is caught between Koch and Channa, who stands 8-ft., 3-inches tall. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman)
Cliff Thompson of Scandinavia, Wis., at 8 feet 7 inches, 460 pounds who will find difficult to live in a world built for men of ordinary stature. Cliff and Mayor Micheal Olsen, of Menominee, Mich. decided to help a giant in distress. Cliff had a bed nine and one-half feet long, the mayor learned but no chair of proportionate size. So the Mayor had a Menominee chair manufacture put together something extra special shown Oct. 25, 1938 for Thompson. Tall Cliff, who travels with circuses, as "the world's tallest man, has trouble finding furniture beg enough for his frame.
Bimbo, circus giant, rests on an improvised bed in a Berlin hotel on April 16, 1958 as a short friend serves him breakfast. Bimbo, who is 7 feet 8 inches tall, was too long for any of the beds in the hotel when his circus got to Berlin, Germany, for performances. So a bed was made up of chairs. (AP Photo)
Congratulations are in order at a circus in Cologne, Germany on July 11, 1955. Midget Emil Feist gets the glad hand from Bimbo, the circus tall man, after marrying salesgirl Therese Eichstaetter, who looks on. (AP Photo)
Three-feet two-inch Stanley Ross and seven-feet nine-inch Henry Hite look out a window as they arrived in New York onboard the ocean liner Queen Mary, Nov. 17, 1938. After working in Vaudeville shows in Germany, they returned to the U.S. to spend the Thanksgiving holiday at home. Unpeturbed by the threatening European crisis, they both plan to return to Germany to fulfill their Vaudeville engagements. (AP Photo/John Rooney)
Stanley Ross, 26, of Detroit 3 ft. 2 inches tall, left, Tommy Lowe 36, 5-ft. 5-inches of New York and Henry Hite, 21, of Atlanta, 7 ft. , 9-inches, stopped in Chicago en route to Wyoming on Aug. 24, 1936. Here they are illustrating their version of "up." (AP Photo)
Ted Evans, 9 feet 3 1/2 inches tall, meets Jamaica's shortest man, Thomas Kelly, 3 feet 3 inches, at Myrtle Bank Hotel where "Tiny" works as a bell hop in Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 30, 1951. Evans is from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. (AP Photo)
Ted Evans, who is 9 feet 3 1/2 inches tall, rides his specially-built reinforced bicycle with a young girl from his hometown of Englefield Green, Surrey, England, Oct. 18, 1950. Evans, 26, was born in Williamsthorpe, Derbyshire, a normal 7-pound 9-ounce baby, and started to grow at age 15. (AP Photo)
Scotty Wolf, Guinness record holder as the most-married man, looks up at Sandi Allen, purportedly the world’s tallest woman at 7 feet 7½ inches, during the ceremony to formally open the Hollywood Guinness World of Records Museum in Los Angeles on Dec. 11, 1991. Wolf has walked down the aisle 27 times. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Kareen Abdul Jabbar, the 7 foot 2 star of the Milwaukee Bucks Pro Basketball team and jockey Willie Showmaker, center, are a study in contrasts as they recieve Dewar's Award of Merit at luncheon in New York City Nov. 2, 1972. Making presentation is Isidore Becker, host at ceremonies.(AP Photo)
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