--- description: In the midst of wedding season, LIFE celebrates the lengths, and the heights, to which some folks will go to consecrate their love. title: Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole, 1946 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eb4c4d9a2cdbdd3/69884c03a988ca48ac6b21f4/140618-flagpole-wedding-allan-grant.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [curiosities](/tag/curiosities/) ## curiosities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole by [Ben Cosgrove](/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2014 3:04 PM CUT  Engaged couple Marshall and Yolanda Jacobs kiss atop a flagpole, Coshocton, Ohio, June 1946, prior to their wedding. Engaged couple Marshall and Yolanda Jacobs kiss atop a flagpole, Coshocton, Ohio, June 1946, prior to their wedding.Allan Grant—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images by [Ben Cosgrove](/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2014 3:04 PM CUT In the summer of 1946, less than a year after the end of the Second World War, LIFE magazine shared a story from a small town in Ohio that suggested, in LIFE’s laconic phrasing, that “the U.S. \[had\] turned another corner in its return to peacetime normalcy.” The validity of such an assertion, meanwhile, largely depends on one’s understanding of what constitutes “normal.” --- > “” --- Here, in the midst of wedding season, seven decades after Mad Marshall and Yolanda tied the knot, LIFE celebrates the lengths, and heights, to which people will go to consecrate their love. Be sure to check out some of the other—and, if possible, even more vertiginous—pictures from their special day, below. Finally: If anyone happens to know what became of the pole-perching newlyweds—Did the marriage last? Did they have kids?—please let us know in the comments. Thanks.  Engaged couple Marshall and Yolanda Jacobs kiss atop a flagpole, Coshocton, Ohio, June 1946, prior to their wedding. Allan Grant—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  LIFE Magazine, July 15, 1946 LIFE Magazine ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3880033/behind-the-picture-love-atop-a-flagpole-1946/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3880033/behind-the-picture-love-atop-a-flagpole-1946/"},"headline":"Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole","datePublished":"2014-06-01T15:04:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:34.446Z","description":"Seven decades after an Ohio couple tied the knot atop a 176-foot flagpole, LIFE celebrates the lengths, and heights, to which some folks will go to consecrate their love.","url":"https://time.com/3880033/behind-the-picture-love-atop-a-flagpole-1946/","keywords":["curiosities","Newsfeed","photography","Ohio","wedding","1946","Ben Cosgrove","Liz Ronk","allan grant"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eb4c4d9a2cdbdd3/69884c03a988ca48ac6b21f4/140618-flagpole-wedding-allan-grant.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ben Cosgrove","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eb4c4d9a2cdbdd3/69884c03a988ca48ac6b21f4/140618-flagpole-wedding-allan-grant.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Flagpole Newlyweds, 1946","caption":"Engaged couple Marshall and Yolanda Jacobs kiss atop a flagpole, Coshocton, Ohio, June 1946, prior to their wedding.","creditText":"Allan Grant—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/curiosities/","name":"curiosities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3880033/behind-the-picture-love-atop-a-flagpole-1946/","name":"Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole"}}]}] ```