02.04.2013
LATF Hipster (19)
By: Joshua Glenn | Categories:
Haw-Haw
Nineteenth in a series of posts asking you to look at that forgotten hipster.
Massachusetts-born aviator Roscoe Turner wearing a high-altitude coat and what appear to be animal-paw gloves.
Turner set the east to west transcontinental airspeed record at 12 hours and 33 minutes, from New York to Burbank, California, on November 14, 1930. Turner bettered by two hours and 17 minutes the former mark set by Frank Hawks. He also won the Bendix Trophy in 1933 and the Thompson trophy in 1934, 1938 and 1939.
Photo courtesy of San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive, via Flickr’s Commons.
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SIMILAR HILOBROW SERIES: BICYCLE KICK | CECI EST UNE PIPE — a gallery | CHESS MATCH — a gallery | EGGHEAD — a gallery | FILE X — a gallery | HILOBROW COVERS — a gallery
Joshua Glenn is a Boston-based writer, publisher, and cultural semiologist-for-hire.
He is coauthor and/or co-editor of TAKING THINGS SERIOUSLY, THE IDLER'S GLOSSARY, THE WAGE SLAVE'S GLOSSARY, and — in 2012 — the object-oriented story collection SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS, and the kids' field guide to life UNBORED. He is editor of HILOBROW and publisher of the science fiction imprint HILOBOOKS; and he is co-founder of SEMIONAUT and the SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS experiment.
In the '00s, Glenn was an editor, columnist, and blogger (BRAINIAC) for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section, and he was new media producer for the paper's LIVING/ARTS section. In the '90s, he published the seminal high-lowbrow zine/journal HERMENAUT; was an editor at UTNE READER; and was co-producer of the pioneering DIY how-to website and social network TRIPOD.
Glenn produced and co-designed the iPhone app KER-PUNCH. He manages a secretive online community known as THE HERMENAUTIC CIRCLE. He does business as KING MIXER, LLC.
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Those are lion paws. Turner flew for the Gilmore Oil Company (later Mobil) in California with a lion cub and corporate mascot named “Gilmore”. He, Gilmore, was stuffed when he died, and now resides in the Smithsonian, according to Wikipedia.
I was aware of Gilmore, but are you sure those are poor Gilmore’s paws?
Oh, no, I didn’t mean to suggest they were actually poor Gilmore’s feet. Lion mittens or gloves I hope.
@arby…tell the rest of the story…that you are cousin to the Gilmores!
Actually, now that I look closer, I think the “gloves” seem to be part of the coat, it looks like he is holding gloves in his left hand. That, and the coat seems to have a mane.
Oh yeah — the “paws” (possibly just fur cut to look like paws) are sewn onto the pockets, so when your hand is in your pocket is looks like you have paws. Amazing.