Police officer follows Hayward Thompson as he drives through traffic, Los Angeles, 1927

Title: Police officer follows Hayward Thompson as he drives through traffic, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created: February 1927
Date: 1927-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: An officer emits smoke from the end of his motorbike as he follows closely behind Thompson's car that skirts around the end of a streetcar.
Photograph appears with the article, "Vision Marvel Breaks Record," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1927: A1, A12.
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.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: A Ticklish Spot-Negotiating a left-hand turn at Twelfth and Spring streets in the thick of traffic. Thompson paused to let streetcar pass by few feet.
Text from negative sleeve: THOMPSON, HAYWARD 1927

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Thompson, Hayward
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Street railroads--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Stunt driving--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_3795
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cpg70
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