12.01.2010

Lillian La France, I get it.

It's an older Selvage Yard post, but I keep going back to her as inspiration. I wish I could hang out with her, she sounds like fun! 

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Lillian La France showing off with no hands on the treadmill at full rev.  She was one of the first, and also one of the most popular, female Wall of Death riders of the 1920s & ’30s.
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“I was never meant to have children, or to be a plain housewife.  I saw how my mother lived, so you know married life never appealed to me– to endure what she went through…”
–Lillian LaFrance 



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