Officers William A. Bannon, W.O . Mellon, and Chief Wilfred Spellman with blindfolded stunt driver Hayward Thompson and his car, Los Angeles, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Officers William A. Bannon, W.O . Mellon, and Chief Wilfred Spellman with blindfolded stunt driver Hayward Thompson and his car, Los Angeles, 1927
- Date Created
- February 1927
- Date
- 1927-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph appears with the article, "Vision Marvel Breaks Record," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1927: A1, A12.
Hayward sits on the edge of the vehicle. Chief Spellman leans down and adjusts Hayward's black blindfold. Officers Bannon and Mellon watch.
Hayward Thompson successfully drove for five hours and thirteen minutes, a total of 100 miles, through congested traffic all while completely blindfolded. The affair was his 333rd exhibition and the longest since his sixty mile drive in Miami.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Thompson, Hayward
Bannon, William A., b. 1898
Mellon, W. O. (William Otis), 1898-1963
Spellman, Wilfred Leadly, 1874-1954 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Blindfolds
Police--California--Los Angeles
Stunt driving--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3789
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpg1w
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .