now this is badass!
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):
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!
(images credit: ThrillArena)
A true star! (somebody cue the MGM Studio music…)
(image credit: WallofDeath)
