Stunt driver Hayward Thompson shakes hand with a woman, Los Angeles, 1927

Title: Stunt driver Hayward Thompson shakes hand with a woman, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created: January 31, 1927
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Hayward Thompson stands before a car among a crowd while blindfolded. He’s shaking hands with an unidentified woman. Between them is Thompson’s manager W. H. Watson.
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
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Thompson, Hayward 1927

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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