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Innovative Coffee Lid by Josh Harris



Innovative Coffee Lid by Josh Harris

Coffee Top Caddy by Josh Harris is designed to help the coffee runner with people’s orders.

 

Rather than remember what his coworkers want, he can place the coffee accessories onto the tops of their coffee cups and everyone will be able to customize their own drinks to their liking.

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Walls of Death in Amusement Parks: A Brief History



“Famous Hell Drivers – Racing Lions – Feminine Courage!”

Since there was no “Harry Potter” in IMAX 3-D in the 1930s, where would you go to see an ultimate spectacle? You’d go to the amusement park to see motorcycles roaring up, down, and around a huge wooden barrel, filling the air with atrocious noise, fumes and a tremendous sense of danger – with spectators standing just yards away from the action!

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(image credit: National Fairgound Archive)

Roll Up, Roll Up, It’s Thrills, It’s Spills – It’s the Amazing “Wall of Death”!

Derived from normal wood board motordromes the America’s Original Extreme Motorcycle Thrill Show became one of the most daring acts at fairgrounds and carnivals in the early 1910s, achieving peak popularity during motorcycle-crazed 1930s….

The first such motordome appeared in 1911 in Luna-Park at Coney island, New York; and in only 4 more years these walls became completely vertical, with not just single drivers, but the whole motorized crews thundering upon them.

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Lions and Ladies at “The LionDrome”

We wanted to start this page with “put your girlfriend with a lion on a motorcycle, and sent her up the wall!” – but we’re not going to do that (fearing wrath of.., you know). So we’ll just continue with simple facts:

With over a hundred walls of death traveling the US by the 1930s, perhaps the coolest version was the ‘Liondrome’ in which a rider is accompanied by a tamed lion. We featured one such image before, but now we have more info about this sort of crazy entertainment:

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With stage names like “Lolita” and “Ethel Purtle” these fearless women actually kept these lions for pets… driving them on vertical walls for fun and profit. Imagine a job description like that… (try to apply for it today, after you read a bit more info):

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To have a lion right behind you on your passenger seat would be quite risky (it might get a bit too stressed and bite your head off, you know), so the drivers placed them in side-cars, and were careful not to smell of alcohol while driving – lions absolutely hated it!

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A true star! (somebody cue the MGM Studio music…)

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These were not necessarily “walls of death”, but sometimes “walls of accidents” – here we see drivers Alma Johnson and Rudy Rube Knight, in 1932:

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Don’t worry, everything turned out fine: here they’re seen dancing on the beach:

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(images credit: National Fairgound Archive)

From “Walls of Death” to “Globes of Death”… maybe even to “Moebius Strip of Death”?

To up the excitement, there soon appeared the Globes of Death, looking pretty puny compared to the size of the driver:

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And here is “The Hornby Smith Globe”, not for the fainthearted – suspended in the thin air.

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With a bit of good luck and a lot of centripetal force…

In modern times, family teams of riders still take the original “American Indian” motorcycles to the wall, and the attraction still has a dedicated following:

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(images credit: Tony Kemplen and Marah Anderson)

Obviously, somebody had to take a small car up the wall eventually – and here is a video to prove it, with two cars braving it:

Mohammed Jawed, for example, drives his compact car up the wall in Afganistan, “circling the shuddering wood-plank Wall of Death during his traveling stunt show’s stop in Kabul” -

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