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I Rode for Tommy Wall of Death  
     
     
     

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Wall of Death - Motordrome - Lillian LaFrance - circa 1900


 

 

 

 

Lillian at Ticket Box

Building the Wall

Motordrome

and Double Wheel in back

Motordrome

Motordrome


Motordrome

Motordrome

Motordrome

Motordrome

Riders on Plateform


Rider on Plateform

Lillian

Motor Cycle Lillian  with other Riders Rider on Wall

 

 

Rider

Rider

Rider  in Hawii Lillian and Partner In Front

 

 

 

 

Lillian Car

Lillian Car

Riders on Platform

 Car in Motordrome

Riders Inside the Drome


 

 

Car on Wall

Lillian

Lillian with her Dog

Lillian

Lillian


 

Tip in Front of Drome

Motordrome

Lillian

Motordrome

Winter Carnival

 

 

 

Winter Carnival

Inside Drome

Lillian

Lillian on Car

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

 

Lillian Passport

Lillian Passpor

 

Lillian Passport

   

The pictures below include 2 different exterior views of Ethel Purtle's Lion Drome; an exterior view of "Thrills Wall of Death" featuring Miss Betty O'Day (signed by rider Jim Podesta); a portrait of Ethel Purtle and 4 other performers at her Lion Drome; a portrait of Dot Kettering on her Motorcycle and a portrait photo of Nita Andresen in her riding clothes. This wonderful, 1940's and 1950's


Thrill Show

Lion Motordrome

Thrills Wall of Death

Ethel Purtle

and 4 other performers

 Nita Andresen


 

 

 

 

Dot Kettering

 

     

 

Apple Motordrome

 

My grandfather and Uncle built this Motordrome for their traveling show.  My grandfather raced...and was hurt early in his career.  He found a love for motorcycles after learning to ride during the war.  He was a WWI dispatch rider.  My grandmother was 17 and 10 years younger than my grandfather... she met him at a carnival in Marathon County Wisconsin.  She ran away and married him a week later.  He started teaching her how to ride almost immediately. 

Kay Nerland


Emma Louise Apple 1920's

Apple Motordrome

My grandfather is the man

to the right behind the ticket box. Thurston (T.J.) Apple.

Mickey & Unknown Rider

Mickey & Jean

Mickey Apple 1944


 

 

 

 

Mikey 1944 Apple Motordrome

 

     

Articles from Apples Motordrome

An Antique Motorcycle Romance

 

 


Wall of Death - From Greece


My name is Kiriakos Iosifidis  I'm from Athens Greece.   During the last 4 years I've been writing a book about the wall of death in Greece and around the world. It will finally be published on November! One part of the book talks about the wall of death and globe of death around the world.


Photographs courtesy of Kiriakos Iosifidis

Other Images of Motordromes


Worlds Smallest Motordrome

To Remember the Brothers Coutard in The Wall of Death

"Wall of Death" Irene Dare British Motordrome

 

 

 

British Wall of Death Speedrome Scarborough 1932

Messham's Wall of Death at Epsom in 1961

Alma Johnson

and Friend 1932 Motordrome

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

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