Thelma Todd

In 1934, Thelma got into an accident with her Lincoln, broke her ribs, and the studios forbid her from driving From then on, her maid May Whitehead was her driver.

In August of the same year, she opened a successful cafe in the Pacific Palisades, called Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Cafe, attracting a diverse clientele of Hollywood celebrities as well as many tourists.

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Leland Powels

Author: Leland Powels

As I look back on my entire life of automobile and motorcycle-ism, I see my epitaph. It sounds something like….” Here lies the creature of the wheel, lord of the infernal engine.”