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.
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.
Stund driver Hayward Thompson just after he successfully drove for five hours and thirteen minutes, a total of 100 miles, through congested traffic in Los Angeles all while completely blindfolded. The affair was his 333rd exhibition and the longest since his sixty mile drive in Miami. He was nicknamed the “Wizard of the Blindfold.”
W. H. Watson (center), manager of stund driver Hayward Thompson, looka at the engine of Watson's Pontiac Six as Watson observes. Nicknamed the “Wizard of the Blindfold,” on February 1, he 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. Watson. Reported in "Blindfolded, Hayward Thompson Drives Miles Through Heavy Traffic," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb. 1927: A12.
Stunt driver Hayward Thompson stands blindfolded in front of his Pontiac. Nicknamed the “Wizard of the Blindfold,” on February 1, Thompson successfully drove his 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. Reported with a similar photograph in "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.
Hayward Thompson (center) shakes hands with manager W. H. Watson in front of his car. Hayward Thompson, nicknamed the “Wizard of the Blindfold” successfully drove a 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. Reported with a similar photograph in "Blindfolded, Hayward Thompson Drives Miles Through Heavy Traffic," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb. 1927: A12.
