Posts tagged 1920s

Glad, Glad, and Lizzy… original motoladies!

This 1920 photograph comes from the fantastic Museum Victoria collection, it depicts Glad Linaker, Lizzy Chinnery and Glad White sitting atop their v-twin motorcycles. (Silodrome)

1925 Sunbeam motorcycle and it’s rider. A classic pair at VME Isle of Vashon TT 2012.

Woman in her motorcycle garb, circa 1928.

Easter Walters on a 1920’s Harley Davidson motorcycle with sidecar. Easter was an actress and motorcycle enthusiast.

Standing ovation? Amazing vintage photo of a woman stunting.

Awesome shot of a Norton Model 18 (1928) Norton International.

Post script: After a couple tips from readers and closer inspection of a few photographs I’ve been corrected that this is an International. I think it’s a Norton International 1935 M40. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, I’ll admit I can be sometimes! ;)

Retro photo, pirate boots.

Film star Dorothy Sebastian with a dog cinema star named Flash cir. 1925. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 

Vintage beauty and style on an amazing BSA.

“GO SLOW and see our town / GO FAST and see our jail”  Best moto ladies ever, with the best sign ever.

Motorcycle officerettes, Los Angeles, 1927

Bad ass grandma on a motorcycle back in the 20s. I look up to this woman!

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Elsie Newell, my great-great-grandmother. She is also badass. I am descended from a line of general badassery. Sometime in the 1920s. Look at those shoes.