Johnny Weissmuller
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Johnny Weissmuller was an American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor. He set world records alongside winning five gold medals in the Olympics. He won the 100m freestyle and the 4 × 200 m re
Weissmuller c. 1940s
Weißmüller lived in this house during the first months of his life in Freidorf (now part of Timișoara)
Weissmuller in 1924
Weissmüller (Tarzan) with Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane) in Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Freidorf
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Freidorf was one of the first German settlements in Temes County in the Banat, Kingdom of Hungary. In 1920, it became part of Romania; since 1950 it is a district of the city of Timișoara, located on
Johnny Weissmuller
…an eight-year period, then filmed 26 additional half-hour episodes of the Jungle Jim TV series. Johann Peter Weißmüller was born on June 2, 1904, in Szabadfalva, in the Kingdom of Hungary into an ethnically Banat Swabian family. An ancestor had immigrated from Baden, Holy Roman Empire c. 1749. Three days later…
St. Roch Catholic Church in Freidorf currently Ioan Slavici Street Timisoara
House in Freidorf built in 1929
The Bega Canal in Freidorf, seen from the Modoș Bridge
Trams on line 3 in 2006