Hazel and the Wall of Death

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Meet Hazel. This photograph of her from 1927 shows her smiling broadly before a show at an American fairground. We don’t know much more about Hazel but she does look like the kind of girl it’d be fun to have a drink with.

Ben Branch

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Published by Ben Branch - October 28th 2012

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