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Stunt driver Hayward Thompson with his manager W. H. Watson and his Pontiac Six, Angeles, circa 1927

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Title: Stunt driver Hayward Thompson with his manager W. H. Watson and his Pontiac Six, Angeles, circa 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: January 26, 1927
1927-01-26
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
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
Description: Stunt driver Hayward Thompson (center), blindfolded beside his manager W. H. Watson (left). Behind them is the Pontiac Six that Thompson drove. Nicknamed the “Wizard of the Blindfold,” Thompson successfully drove the Pontiac Six 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. Thompson sears the same suit and blindfold in the image that accompanies this article, "No, This is not an Auto Bandit: MESMERISM BY RADIO Extraordinary Experiment Planned by Hayward Thompson, "Sightless Vision" Man," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 1927: A2.
Text from negative sleeve: Thompson, Hayward.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3732_G4876
ark:/21198/z1cc6srr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Stunt driving--California--Los Angeles
Thompson, Hayward
Watson, W. H
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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