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Strongman pulling people and car with his teeth, Santa Monica

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Image of a strongman dressed in a leopard skin bodysuit pulling people in bathing suits and an automobile with a chain by his teeth in Santa Monica, California. One of the men sitting on the car has letters on his swim suit that read "GB" or "CB." There appears to be a construction area with cranes and cables fenced off to the left with a sign that partially reads "es of thrills."
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Date
1928
Call number
photCL_555_06_1120
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