--- title: Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole, 1946 description: In the midst of wedding season, LIFE celebrates the lengths, and the heights, to which some folks will go to consecrate their love. canonical: https://time.com/3880033/behind-the-picture-love-atop-a-flagpole-1946/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-01T15:04:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:34.446Z og:title: Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole, 1946 og:description: In the midst of wedding season, LIFE celebrates the lengths, and the heights, to which some folks will go to consecrate their love. og:url: https://time.com/3880033/behind-the-picture-love-atop-a-flagpole-1946/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eb4c4d9a2cdbdd3/69884c03a988ca48ac6b21f4/140618-flagpole-wedding-allan-grant.jpg?branch=production&width=788&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 788 og:image:height: 443 og:image:alt: Flagpole Newlyweds, 1946 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole, 1946 twitter:description: In the midst of wedding season, LIFE celebrates the lengths, and the heights, to which some folks will go to consecrate their love. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1eb4c4d9a2cdbdd3/69884c03a988ca48ac6b21f4/140618-flagpole-wedding-allan-grant.jpg?branch=production&width=788&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Jun 1, 2014 3:04 PM UTC  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](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Jun 1, 2014 3:04 PM UTC 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. 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