Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers
Follies of the Madmen #557
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 24, 2023 -
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Category: Cosmetics, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Advertising, Twentieth Century
The Trampoline Performance Art of Yoann Bourgeois
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 03, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Music, Clumsiness and Grace, Performance Art, Gymnastics
Joie Chitwood’s Auto Show
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 13, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, 1950s, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows, Cars
Rome fire-fighting cadets, 1962
Firemen as acrobats.
Newsweek - July 23, 1962
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 22, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, 1960s
Fred and Coronet Cordon’s Whip Act
Photo source.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 16, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Television, Sex Symbols, 1950s, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows
An Impressive Fall
This story is not quite so remarkable as Alex's tales of Empire State Building suicides who survived, but it will do.Source: The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) 01 Aug 1910, Mon Page 2
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 05, 2022 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Domestic, Family, Danger, Risk, and Peril
Perry Submarines
Hobbyist submarines are pretty oddball. (Not even getting into the territory of drug-smugglers with homemade subs.) Here's a forerunner from 1962.Apparently the company is still going strong. Although they don't make subs anymore.
The restoration of one sub.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 07, 2020 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Hobbies and DIY, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #480
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 18, 2020 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Business, Advertising, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Fashion, 1940s
A Social History of Wild Huckleberry Harvesting in the Pacific Northwest
Read it here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 10, 2020 -
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Category: Boredom, Customs, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Food, Government, Regionalism
Urban Daredevil
REYNOLDS, J., PERFORMING ACROBATIC AND BALANCING ACTS ON HIGH CORNICE ABOVE 9TH STREET, N.W
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 05, 2020 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, 1910s
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