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"There's nothing left for him to try now

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Grate Fishing Frame Color:Natural This image was published withA 12 year old boy goes fishing with "uncanny skill" for coins and other treasures in the city's subway grating in 1959. His only tools: a small rock tied to a 12 foot piece of string and some lard (which is used to make the rock sticky). He then lowers the line and hauls up his catch. Sometimes a dime, sometimes a subway token, sometimes a ring of gold. Times photographer Allyn Baum captured the boy as he was surrounded by a large crowd in Times