Vintage Pics of the Day

[Steve Swan]

Steve, do you have any info to go along with the above photo?

I notice 1931 California license plate, possible remnants of small pennant and UCLA Bruins decal on side of tank and the letters UCLA on the tool box.

i do not, but i see you amazing guys have found more pics of this bike! Ya'll ROCK!

[Steve Swan]

With Eric's info it took me an hour this evening to find the story behind these photos. The three photos were taken on Dec 5th 1931 by an insurance company photographer, their client while driving his auto had been struck in the side of his vehicle by the motorcyclist on Dec 1st. The young motorcyclist a 24 year old student who was a New York native passed the next day Dec 2nd of basal skull fracture after being thrown 30' from the cycle. I located newspaper coverage of the incident naming the parties but left the identities out.

Again! You guys are amazing! to find these pictures -and- information! A really nice '27 that perished... Not to mention the young rider...

The poor kid. i'm an old E.R. nurse and i can tell you basilar skull fractures are at the least serious and at the most commonly lethal... high velocity blunt force trauma potentially tearing carotid artery injury, (hemorrhage) cerebrospinal canal rupture (cerebrospinal fluid leakage) and cervical fracture, (often impinging if not fully severing the spinal cord at the base of the skull where respiration and heart beat are controlled).

[Steve Swan]

With Eric's info it took me an hour this evening to find the story behind these photos. The three photos were taken on Dec 5th 1931 by an insurance company photographer, their client while driving his auto had been struck in the side of his vehicle by the motorcyclist on Dec 1st. The young motorcyclist a 24 year old student who was a New York native passed the next day Dec 2nd of basal skull fracture after being thrown 30' from the cycle. I located newspaper coverage of the incident naming the parties but left the identities out.

Again! You guys are amazing! to find these pictures -and- information! A really nice '27 that perished... Not to mention the young rider...

The poor kid. i'm an old E.R. nurse and i can tell you a basilar skull fractured are pretty much always lethal... high velocity blunt force trauma potentially tearing carotid artery injury, (hemorrhage) cerebrospinal canal rupture (cerebrospinal fluid leakage) and cervical fracture, (often impinging if not fully severing the spinal cord at the base of the skull where respiration and heart beat are controlled).

Sunset Boulevard and North orange Drive today

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[JoJo357]

*M.A.D.*

Awesome research & story guys. Too bad it ended tragically.

[JoJo357]

*M.A.D.*

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[BigLakeBob]

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[exeric]

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The Moxie horse is riding on a 1919 Henderson based on the Excelsior double brake. I saw the Moxie Rolls Royce many years ago. Best sugar drink ad campaign.

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[JoJo357]

*M.A.D.*

I saw the LaSalle Horse campaign automobile at a Car show years ago. I wonder where the Henderson Horse rig went to?

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[T. Cotten]

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[BigLakeBob]

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[Rubone]

Another Los Angeles CA accident scene insurance photo this one from May 1941 with an Indian Dispatch-Tow. I don't know if it was being ridden or towed at the time of the accident but I believe it was owned by the J.E. Waters Dodge-Plymouth dealership which was located just 3 blocks west of the accident scene.

My guess is towed. It looks like a broadside hit on the box as if someone saw the car pulling it and anticipated passing quickly behind it not seeing the Dispatch Tow hung on the back. The severed triple tree points to a severe side hit too.

[BigLakeBob]

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[T. Cotten]

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[T. Cotten]

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[BigLakeBob]

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