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The night they ended Prohibition December 5th 1933
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You think ice skating is hard, try red-hot-iron-skillet-skating. Fall down here and you don't just get a bump.
This photo was taken in November 1931 in Chehalis, Washington at the town's Egg Festival. The occasion was an attempt to break the world record for largest omelette.
"These are our most popular model, ma'am, walking in them is like gliding on a cloud. Of lard."
After baking the world's largest strawberry shortcake a few years before, the festival wanted to attempt a different record. A giant skillet was custom made for the occasion. It weighed nearly half a ton (a thousand pounds).
World's smallest photo of the world's largest skillet.
The job was given to the F. S. Lang Stove Works in Seattle. The giant utensil was shipped to Chehalis by truck. Photos of the pan being readied for transport, with local Seattle women dancing a tango on it, were published in newspapers and magazines across the country.
Crackheads.
An egg-cracking competition was held in order to crack the eggs for the omelette. The winner, Mrs. Al Blair, cracked a caseload of 30 dozen eggs in 12 minutes. That's 30 eggs a minute, without leaving any bits of shell. I could just about crack one egg a minute, and that's not counting the fishing for shell bits.
It's called fashion, look it up.
Miss Thora Yeager having slabs of bacon tied to her feet.
Extreme hockey. The puck is a slice of onion.
The two women then skated around the warming skillet to grease it. Then a team of chefs beat the 7,200 eggs, and fried up a world record.