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Updated – In 1925, Gus Petzel made a San Francisco to Washington, D.C. run in this charming little baby car. The postcard description tells more about it: “The smallest automobile in the world – Designed and built by Gus Petzel of Alameda, California. The car has a 4-cylinder air cooled motor, 3-speeds, electric lights and starter, 60…
* Updated * Thanks to reader TinIndian and his research work, we now know that the young man in our photograph above is 15-year old Alex Pabst. He won both the Junior Vanderbilt and the Grand Prix cycle car races for boys held at the Ascot Park race track in Los Angeles early in May of…
Hazel Eaton was young, and she was fearless. She was raised in South Portland, Maine and in 1910 at the age of only fifteen years old she ran away from home and joined a high dive act in Bangor, Maine. After diving and traveling with the Johnny Jones Exhibition for two years, she met Ira…
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