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Title: Stunt driver Hayward Thompson completes blindfolded drive, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: January 31, 1927
1927-01-31
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Vision Marvel Breaks Record," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1927: A1, A12
Thompson is seen blindfolded in the driver's seat of the car in the center as a large crowd watches. One of the ground-floor windows of the building the background has the words "Hayward Thompson Wizard of the Blindfold" painted on it.
Handwritten on negative: Hayward Thompson
Text from negative sleeve: Thompson, Hayward 1927
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3803
ark:/21198/zz002cpgh4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Stunt driving--California--Los Angeles
Crowds
Thompson, Hayward
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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