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C.W. Tucker 1900s Mounted Photo Stunt Driver Climbing Stairs at Reo Garage in Covina, CA, 1900s Silver print
10 x 12 inches overall; With photographer\'s embossed credit mount recto. Dynamic photograph showing the noted Southern California stunt driver Leon Shettler demonstrating the power of an REO automobile. To celebrate the opening of Blanchard\'s REO garage on West College Street in Covina, CA, Shettler appeared before \"twelve hundred enthusiastic autoists and their friends,\" according to an account published in the Covina Argus. The crowd witnessed him scale \"a flight of fourteen 6-inch steps, at 3 grade of 43 per cent, by a twenty horse power REO car.\" Two years earlier Shettler made headlines when he climbed the steps of the Los Angeles courthouse in an REO but he emphasized his feat in front of the garage was twice as difficult (because there were twice as many stairs).
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